Recently I was assigned to do data migration from Magento 1.8.1.0 to Magento 2.1.0 In this article, I will share some points you must look out for when migrating to Magento 2. There are several things you must be aware of before you start migration: Magento 2 is a memory hog. So, suggested 2GB RAM…
When using S3 as our external storage, sometimes we have to let users download files from S3. If file is too large, it may not fit in the memory. The solution is to stream file into user’s browser straight from S3. Let’s take a look how to do it with Laravel’s Filesystem. There are 2…
Sometimes uploaded text/csv file may have non-utf8 or other funky characters using the function below. public static function processUploadedBundles($request) { $content = file_get_contents($request->file(‘uploadedFile’)->getRealPath()); $lines = explode(PHP_EOL, $content); $array = []; foreach ($lines as $line) { $arrayCsv = str_getcsv($line, “,”); $arrayCsv = array_map(function($value){ return preg_replace(‘/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\xFF]/’, ”, $value); }, $arrayCsv); $array[] = $arrayCsv; } return $array; }…
A webhook is an HTTP callback, that occurs when something happens (a resource changes its state). Webhooks provide a way to build event-driven apps, because you can be notified about changes. Since webhooks require a publicly accessible URL to function they can be hard to test from your local machine. There are three main problems…