Archive of whiteboard topics, mostly about Magento, PHP, OOP, design patterns, etc.

• Use Cases
  • Magento
• Topics
  • Magento
    • Collections
    • Controllers
    • Cryptography
    • Dependency Injection
    • Events
    • Factories
    • Redirects
    • Repositories
    • Security
    • SQL
    • UI Components

Use Cases

Magento

• Create select source model with data from di.xml
• Create categorized select source model with data from di.xml
• Generate token for user authentication
• Generate nonce for reset link
• Update an entry timestamp via DateTime factory
• Deduplicate redirect logic between inheritance-based controllers
• Implement CSRF-aware request validation in controllers
• Dispatch before, after events while saving an entity
• Modify metadata/data via data modifiers in an entity DataProvider class
• Improve frontend load time via cache-driven SQL queries

Topics

Magento

Collections

• SelectQueryFetchStrategy
• SelectQueryFetchStrategyInterface

Controllers

• AuthTrait
• CsrfAwareActionTrait
• RedirectTrait

Cryptography

• Token

Dependency Injection

• DataObjectFactory
• DateTimeFactory
• VirtualSelect
• VirtualGroupedSelect

Events

• EventManagerTrait

Factories

• DataObjectFactory
• DateTimeFactory
• ExceptionFactory

Redirects

• RedirectTrait

Repositories

• AbstractRepository
• AbstractRepositoryTrait
• AbstractRepositoryInterface

Security

• AuthTrait
• CsrfAwareActionTrait
• Token

SQL

• SelectQueryFetchStrategy
• SelectQueryFetchStrategyInterface

UI Components

• ModifierPoolTrait