Custom payment method – authorize/capture/refund, JS renderer, PCI DSS
Building a custom payment method in Magento 2 is one of the more complex integrations you can do on the platform. It touches frontend JavaScript, backend PHP, REST API configuration, and security requirements. I walk through the complete implementation – authorize, capture, refund, the JS renderer for checkout, and PCI DSS considerations.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
PHP 8.2 preview – readonly classes, DNF types, dynamic properties deprecated
PHP 8.2 arrives in November 2022 and its headline features are more conservative than 8.0 or 8.1, but each one plugs a real gap in the type system. Readonly classes eliminate boilerplate in immutable DTOs. DNF types allow complex type expressions that were impossible before. Deprecating dynamic properties starts enforcing something good OOP practice demanded for years.
- Published in PHP
GoF patterns in Magento 2 – where to find them and how they work
After covering all 23 GoF patterns individually, time to see where they actually live inside Magento 2. The platform is a textbook example of design patterns applied at scale – DI, plugins, observers, repositories, factories all map directly to specific GoF patterns. This post is a guided tour of patterns hiding in plain sight in Magento’s architecture.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce, Wzorce projektowe
Command and Chain of Responsibility in PHP – behavioural patterns
Command and Chain of Responsibility are two behavioural patterns that both deal with processing requests – but from different angles. Command encapsulates a request as an object, enabling undo, queuing, and logging. Chain of Responsibility passes the request along a handler chain until one processes it. I show GoF implementations and their natural fit in Magento 2.
- Published in Wzorce projektowe