In the last couple of months, I started to dig deep into web security. I wanted to figure out, how the “dark side” works and how a hacker will act when he decided to penetrate my web application. So I downloaded a Kali Linux System, installed it on a virtual machine and started “hacking”…
To add or update an EAV attribute in Magento, it is necessary to add setup scripts to your code base. If you don’t handle your custom attributes in setup scripts, you are not able to install your project from scratch, which could cause a lot of problems. For example, it makes it harder to run unit- and integration tests. So lets assume that we are working in a team with 4 developers and everybody has a different task. Each task…
When you are working with docker on your local machine, you often have to map your local ports to different container and end up in a port-mapping-mess like this: localhost:80 -> Local apache for native stuff localhost:8080 -> Docker container with apache for testing localhost:8100 -> Some sort of dockered WebApp … localhost:59924 -> “Yea, well … don’t know, lets check docker process-list …” To simplify this mess, we created a little proxy-script (+ environment setup) that will make your life…
The Magento 2 webapi is very useful to publish entities to the world. One big advantages of the new webapi is the automatic generation of a swagger schema for RESTful API. If you prefer SOAP over REST you should also be happy to heat that Magento 2 will automatically generate all the WSDL stuff. Magento 2 analyses all the published classes/methods via PHP reflection. Any generated WSDL file contains a XSD with all the types used in the webservices. In…