The use of artificial intelligence (AI) raises questions about the role of technology, the way we interact with it, the extent to which we are able to tell truth from fiction, the role of creativity and the protection of artistic expression, and whether we are able to understand or control its negative effects. In the […]
I was grepping through vendor/shopware/core for the hidden-gems series and stumbled over Shopware\Core\Service\AllServiceInstaller. Two-argument constructor, twelve lines of logic, @internal. Nothing dramatic — until I read what it actually does: it installs apps on your shop. By itself. In production. Once a day. Unless you told it not to. So this one isn’t going to […]
Twenty-three parts into this series, my research folder still has a stack of finds that are real, useful, undocumented — and about two paragraphs big. Instead of stretching each into a full post, here’s the lightning round. One problem, one gem, one file reference. Go. 1. rawUrl() — URLs for mail templates that actually work […]
A slow-burn bug report, verbatim from memory: „Google Search Console shows our sitemap is three months old. New categories aren’t in it.“ Three months. No errors in the log worth noticing, the scheduled task looks healthy, and regenerating „worked“ — or seemed to. The cause turned out to be a mechanism that’s completely reasonable and […]
Moving carts to Redis is one of the standard performance upgrades for busy Shopware installations — the cart table is one of the hottest write paths in the whole system, and MySQL isn’t thrilled about it. The hosting docs cover the configuration. What they skip is the operational question that decides whether you can actually […]
At some point a data protection officer — or an auditor with a checklist — asks the question: „Guest checkout customers who never completed an order. Old shopping carts with session data. What’s your deletion concept?“ And someone from the team says „uh, we could write a command for that“, and estimates a day. The […]
Quick quiz. Your plugin adds a storefront form — a product inquiry, say. Three requirements land with it: spam protection, the page must never end up in any cache (it prefills customer data), and the thank you page should be cached like a normal content page. How much code is that? If your answer involves […]
The official Shopware API docs describe the stock API. Your shop doesn’t run the stock API. It runs stock plus the ERP connector’s custom entities, the subscription plugin’s extensions on product, your own entities from three projects ago. Every integration partner who codes against the official reference will faithfully implement an API that your shop […]
Every shop that has lived a few years carries dead weight in its media folders: PIM re-imports that duplicated every product image, banners for campaigns from 2023, that 40 MB „final_v2_REALLY_final.psd“ someone uploaded to a product folder. Storage is cheap until backups, migrations, and S3 bills say otherwise. media:delete-unused exists for this, and the command […]
This one starts with a confession: I found these commands in the source, wrote half a blog post about them, ran bin/console e2e:dump-db to grab example output — command not found. Grep says it exists. The console says it doesn’t. That kind of afternoon. The resolution turned out to be the most interesting part, so […]
You know the admin’s „duplicate“ button on products. Now the ticket says: „We need that, but from code — duplicate a product per sales channel, with adjusted name and its own product number.“ Or: „Campaign landing pages: clone this CMS page 20 times with different headlines.“ I’ve watched this get implemented as: load entity with […]
The requirement sounds harmless every time: „Log when a product price changes, with old and new value.“ Or: „When an order’s email changes, notify the old address.“ Or the audit-trail classic: „Who changed what, from what, to what?“ And every time, the naive implementation is the same sad shape: subscribe to product.written, load the entity […]
