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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

by Branko Ajzele
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
218 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Plugins

Plugins are likely one of the most powerful features of Magento. They allow us to modify the behavior of public class functions by intercepting a function call and running code before, after, or around that function call.

Before we eagerly start using them, it is worth emphasizing how plugins can't be used on the following:

  • Final methods
  • Final classes
  • Non-public methods
  • Class methods (such as static methods)
  • __construct
  • Virtual types
  • Objects that are instantiated before Magento or Framework\Interception is bootstrapped

Plugins can be used on the following:

  • Classes
  • Interfaces
  • Abstract classes
  • Parent classes

By doing a lookup for the <plugin string across the entire <MAGENTO_DIR> directory's di.xml files, we can see hundreds of ...

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