Add Navigation Menu Magento 2

You can add a new non catgory navigation menu as follows

1) Add the below code in layout XML

File : app\code\PHPcodez\Subscription\view\frontend\layout\default.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
 <body>
 <referenceContainer name="catalog.topnav">
 <block class="PHPCodez\Subscription\Block\Link" name="your.link">
 <arguments>
 <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">Subscription</argument>
 <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">subscription</argument>
 </arguments>
 </block>
 </referenceContainer>
 </body>
</page>

2) Define the block Link.php

File : app\code\PHPcodez\Subscription\Block\Link.php

<?php
 namespace PHPCodez\Subscription\Block;
 
 class Link extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link {

protected function _toHtml() {
 if (false != $this->getTemplate()) {
 return parent::_toHtml();
 }
 return '<li class="level0 "><a ' . $this->getLinkAttributes() . ' class="level-top" >' . $this->escapeHtml($this->getLabel()) . '</a></li>';
 }
 }

Add Top Link Magento 2

You can add a new top link as follows

1) Add the below code in layout XML

File : app\code\PHPcodez\Subscription\view\frontend\layout\default.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
 <body>
 <referenceBlock name="header.links">
 <block class="PHPCodez\Subscription\Block\Link" name="add-new-header-link">
 <arguments>
 <argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">New Link</argument>
 <argument name="path" xsi:type="string" translate="true">new-link</argument>
 </arguments>
 </block>
 </referenceBlock>
 </body>
</page>

2) Define the block Link.php

File : app\code\PHPcodez\Subscription\Block\Link.php

<?php
 namespace PHPCodez\Subscription\Block;
class Link extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link {

protected function _toHtml() {
 if (false != $this->getTemplate()) {
 return parent::_toHtml();
 }
 return '<li class="level0 "><a ' . $this->getLinkAttributes() . ' class="level-top" >' . $this->escapeHtml($this->getLabel()) . '</a></li>';
 }
 }

Add Link Navigation Menu Magento 2

You can add a non-category link to the navigation menu by adding the below lines in layout xml file.

<referenceContainer name="navigation.sections">
 <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links" name="mylink">
 <arguments>
 <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">Mylink</argument>
 <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">mypath</argument>
 <argument name="css_class" xsi:type="string">mycss</argument>
 </arguments>
 </block>
</referenceContainer>

Magento 2 Setup Multiple Websites

Follow the below steps to configure multiple magento websites

1) Create websites, stores, and store views in the Magento Admin

2) Create Apache virtual hosts.

Edit the file E:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName phpcode.com
 DocumentRoot E:\xampp\htdocs\phpcode\pub
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName in.phpcode.com
 DocumentRoot E:\xampp\htdocs\phpcode\pub
 SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "india"
 SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE "website"
 </VirtualHost>

3) Restart Apache.

4) Edit your vhost file(In my system its C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)

127.0.0.1 phpcode.com
127.0.0.1 in.phpcode.com

5) Verify the sites accessing the following URLs

phpcode.com
in.phpcode.com

Magento 2 cURL

Following code get content from an external site using cURL.

<?php
 namespace PHPCodez\Layout\Block;
 
 class Footer extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template {
 
 protected $_httpClientFactory;
 
 public function __construct(\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context,
 \Magento\Framework\HTTP\ZendClientFactory $httpClientFactory) {
 $this->_httpClientFactory = $httpClientFactory;
 parent::__construct($context);
 }

public function getFooterContent() {
 $url = "http://127.0.0.1:81/content/footer.php";
 $client = $this->_httpClientFactory->create();
 $client->setUri($url);
 return $response = $client->request(\Zend_Http_Client::POST)->getBody(); 
 }
 }

For more option you can check vendor\magento\framework\HTTP\Client\Curl.php

addHeader()
setCredentials()
addCookie()
get() // for get request
makeRequest() // for make request
setOption() // set curl options

Magento 2 Remove Footer Links

You can remove Footer Links by adding the below line to layout xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
 <body>
 <referenceBlock name="footer_links" remove="true"/>
<referenceBlock name="cms_footer_links_container" remove="true" />
 </body>
</page>

Magento 2 Factory Object

Factory Object is used to instantiate an object

The Factory class name is the name of Model class and append with the Factory word. So for our example, we will have TopicFactory class. You must not create this class. Magento will create it for you. Whenever Magento’s object manager encounters a class name that ends in the word ‘Factory’, it will automatically generate the Factory class in the var/generation folder if the class does not already exist. You will see the factory class in

var/generation/<vendor_name>/<module_name>/Model/ClassFactory.php

To instantiate a model object we will use automatic constructor dependency injection to inject a factory object, then use factory object to instantiate the model object.

For example, we will call the model to get data in Block. We will create a Header block – PHPCodez\Layout\Block\Header.php with the following content.

<?php
 namespace PHPCodez\Layout\Block;
 class Header extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template {
 
 protected $_headerContentFactory;
 
 public function __construct(\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context,
 \PHPCodez\Layout\Model\HeaderContentFactory $headerContentFactory) {
 $this->_headerContentFactory = $headerContentFactory;
 parent::__construct($context);
 }

public function getHeaderContent() {
 $headerContent = $this->_headerContentFactory->create();
 return $headerContent->process();
 }
 }

Here the block is calling the model function process().

XAMP Change Localhost To Domain

Follow the below steps to Change localhost to custom domain name in XAMP server

1) Open the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and edit “as Administrator” => hosts file.

Add the below line and save the file.

127.0.0.1 phpcodez.com

2) Edit httpd-vhosts.conf file (In my system E:\xampp\apache\conf\extra and edit httpd-vhosts.conf )

Add the below lines and save the file

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.phpcodez.com
 ServerAlias phpcodez.com
 DocumentRoot e:/xampp/htdocs/phpcodez
</VirtualHost>

3) Restart XAMPP and url www.phpcodez.com will load content form e:/xampp/htdocs/phpcodez