Magento’s region ID’s are internal primary keys on the database that don’t mean anything to the rest of the world. two digit state codes, such as MN or AL are a universal region identifier. I had to import customers from an external ERP into Magento 2. There might be a way to set a region…
Magento encrypts the sensitive information that it stores in the database. That’s great for security, but it means if you need information that only exists as encrypted in the database, it can be hard to get to. To get the data out of there, you need to have access to the file system that runs…
I recently came across a situation where I needed to be able to turn off payment method on checkout based on customer information on a Magneto 2 site. The best solution seemed to be to tie into the payment_method_is_active event. I left the payment method turned on in the admin for ease of use and…
It’s not pretty, but sometimes you need to check an address input to see if it’s a PO box. Rules will be different around PO boxes. For that, I use a simple javascript pattern. It has the down side of checking for “P”, “O”, and “Box” in the string in order, so something like Poratable…
This is a pretty simple task, but I always have to look up the documentation on what the switches are to make a user, so below is the command I use: php bin/magento admin:user:create –admin-user=”kmiles” –admin-password=”password1″ –admin-email=”email@domain.com” –admin-firstname=”Kevin” –admin-lastname=”Miles” There’s also a sometimes needed unlock command for when a user, or myself, tries to log…
Like all software, Magento 1 likes to log a lot of actions. That is usually useful information and not a problem, but it can make for a larger database that you would like. Especially if you need to copy the site to a new server or a local development environment. Honestly, in my experience, I…
There are many times during development that I need to get part of, or all or, an order address in Magento 2 development. For mapping rules in integration or passing the state to a tracking script. When doing this, for US anyways, here is the code framework I start with: [code] /** $order – \Magento\Sales\Model\Order…
I have heard about letsencrypt.org for a while now, but never took the time to get it setup. I finally found the time and can say that it was quite easy to do, and I can’t believe I didn’t do it sooner. The main link I followed is here: https://certbot.eff.org/#ubuntuxenial-nginx You can change the web…
Years ago I wrote about Rackspace Cloud offering me a good server platform at a reasonable cost. While I still have a few servers living there, I am pleased to say that I have found a new one that offers me an even better platform for my business needs. That platform is the Century Link…
a2ensite is a nice command that creates the symlink needed for an apache config file from sites-available to sites-enabled. Nginx doesn’t have such a command, but it is quite simple to create the symlink through bash. Just run this command: sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ And reload nginx config sudo service nginx reload …