Writing backend administration plugins is hard. Especially if your docker setup has problems running bin/watch-administration.sh. But Vue Devtools are here to help! Unfortunately they don’t run in production mode, only on the watcher. So if you are struggeling with running the watches, the next best thing is to install a chrome plugin which forces your […]
This blogpost is based on Shopware version 6.4.20.2. One of our customers had the requirement to implement a couple of additional, „special“ payment methods. Because this increased the number of payment methods in the shop to 12 in total, the customer suggested to spread the payment methods out to both sides of the checkout, using […]
This blogpost is written based on Shopware 6.5.6.0 You are looking for an event inside of Shopware 6? And don’t know how to start? Here are a few tipps and tricks how I find events when I look for them Event Classes Inside of Showare exist a few container classes for event names. The most […]
While surfing your awesome online store, you always has a context on yourself. The context contains a lot of interesting stuff: For me the important stuff and mind blowing is, that the context contains: With all the informations you can create easily an order. For example the default checkout has on the review step (the […]
The first part about how to find all the Shopware 6.5 instances can be found here. This part is about how to monitor the queue My goal is to know, when a queue on our staging server is not working properly. The idea is simple, I loop over all Shopware 6.5+ instances and collect the […]
On one of our staging instances we had the problem, that the SEO urls didn’t get generated. Long story short: The problem was, that the queue worker didn’t work. Why? Because from shopware 6.4 to 6.5 the default queue was renamed from „default“ to „async“ and from 6.5 we need to set the queue name […]
TIL (Today I learned) that on Vue.js if you give a DOM element/vue component it is only saved on the $parent.$refs. I’m writing this down, because coming from Magento 1, my assumption was, that $refs is some kind of a library or singleton, so I can find ALLE components in it – this is not […]
This blogpost is written with Shopware version 6.5.6.1 in mind. We are currently working on a plugin which adjusts a couple of order values after an order has been placed. While digging into the code, my colleague Carl and me found some astonishing stuff that’s actually quite hard to understand. Therefore don’t trust anything you […]
After improving my payment plugin the other day, I ran into an error – or so I thought. You have requested a non-existent service service.alias I tried to import translations for my payment method while installing the plugin. To do this, I wrote a service to read the JSON translation files and give me the […]
How to get a configuration value on the backend? „Don’t call it backend!!!“ Make an API call. And how do you do that? With a service!
Shopware writes a ton of log messages. That is great if you’re looking for something, as you can be quite sure that it’s in there – somewhere. But getting an overview and finding the right error message in 100 lines of log per request can be tricky, so highlighting helps. Today I configured Ideolog to […]
We are currently implementing a payment plugin, and one of the things we want to have is a button to test the configuration. So we need to make an AJAX call to the PHP „backend“, which is all API driven in Shopware 6. Shopware is offering a nice way to do this: The ApiService implemented […]
