Magento 2

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When Should I Use Magento 2 Helpers?
Technology-Strategy
Feb 6, 2017
3 minutes

When Should I Use Magento 2 Helpers?

One of the objects that developers familiar with Magento 1 will instantly recognize are helpers. When working with Magento 1, helpers proved to be a special type of object that looked similar in invocation to a singleton, but in reality it was more of a lazy way to share functionality between multiple locations. The main benefit to using a helper in Magento 1 is that it made it easier to access the __ function for translations and it was directly accessible from the template files .phtml. I’m sure many of you can relate to accessing a helper with the familiar Mage::helper('modulename');.

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Feb 3, 2017
5 minutes

The Magento 2 Learning Curve

The learning curve for various products and platforms tends to vary greatly depending on the complexity of the system you are learning. For example, people that understand how to use the internet and communicate online via email or Facebook are generally able to figure out how to work with Twitter without much of an issue. On the other hand, when you are looking at the learning curve for designing airplanes that are able to carry people, it should be much more difficult to understand how to start as compared to starting to use Twitter. (Yes, I know there are people out that think learning to use Twitter is exceedingly difficult, and make paper airplanes all day long.)

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