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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Cookbook Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785882197
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Upgrading from Magento 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Products 3. Theming 4. Creating a Module 5. Databases and Modules 6. Magento Backend 7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs 8. Creating a Shipping Module 9. Creating a Product Slider Widget 10. Performance Optimization 11. Debugging and Unit Testing Index

Creating a grid of a database table


In the previous chapter, we created a Magento entity that was linked to a database table. In this recipe, we will create a backend interface so that the backend users can see the data from this table in the backend.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the right files for this recipe installed in your Magento instance.

We will create an overview that will use the standard Magento backend grid widget. This widget is used for a lot of grids in the backend, such as the products, orders, CMS pages, and more.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create backend grids:

  1. When we want a new page, we need a controller with a controller action. So we need to add an ACL for that page. Open the file app/code/Packt/HelloWorld/etc/acl.xml, and add the following line of code as a child of the <resource id="Packt_HelloWorld::helloworld" title="HelloWorld" sortOrder="60"> tag:

    <resource id="Packt_HelloWorld::subscription" title="HelloWorld subscription" />
  2. We need some...

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