Magento – Magenot2: what is the use of `resource` paramerter in menu.xml

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i created one testing module in magento2 and for backend added menu by this code:

location of this file is Test/Seller/etc/adminhtml/menu.xml

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../Backend/etc/menu.xsd">
<menu>
<add id="Test_Seller::seller" title="Seller" module="Test_Seller" sortOrder="40" resource="Test_Seller::seller"/>
    <add id="Test_Seller::items" title="Manage Sellers" module="Test_Seller" sortOrder="40" parent="Test_Seller::seller" action="selleradmin/manage/" resource="Test_Seller::items"/>
</menu>
</config>

its working fine. all parameters are clear but what is ther use of resource parameter in add node.
if i remove this parameter then "Missing required param resource" error is coming.

Best Answer

Resource attribute define acl resource for menu element. If user has not access to this resource then the menu item will be not shown for him.

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Magento2 – Difference Between referenceContainer and referenceBlock

basically containers are the equivalent of the core/text_list blocks in magento 1.
"philosophically" they work the same, the only difference is that containers are predefined blocks that only support other child blocks.
Some examples are content, after.body.start, header-wrapper.
You can see all defined containers for example in the Magento/Theme/view/base/page_layout/*.

Here is an example from empty.xml.

<layout xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/page_layout.xsd">
    <container name="root">
        <container name="after.body.start" as="after.body.start" before="-" label="Page Top"/>
        <container name="page.wrapper" as="page_wrapper" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="page-wrapper">
            <container name="global.notices" as="global_notices" before="-"/>
            <container name="main.content" htmlTag="main" htmlId="maincontent" htmlClass="page-main">
                <container name="columns.top" label="Before Main Columns"/>
                <container name="columns" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="columns">
                    <container name="main" label="Main Content Container" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="column main"/>
                </container>
            </container>
            <container name="page.bottom" as="page_bottom" label="Before Page Footer Container" after="main.content" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="page-bottom"/>
            <container name="before.body.end" as="before_body_end" after="-" label="Page Bottom"/>
        </container>
    </container>
</layout>

basically what's defined as <container name="..." /> can be accessed by referenceContainer. what's declared as <block .... /> can be referenced by referenceBlock

Magento 2 – How to Rewrite TierPrice Block

Suppose package:Learning and module: Custom

Module.xml looks like

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <module name="Learning_Custom" setup_version="2.0.0">
        <sequence>
            <module name="Magento_Catalog"/>
        </sequence>
    </module>
</config>

And then create a layout xml following path -> app/code/Learning/Custom/view/frontend/layout/catalog_product_prices.xml

<layout xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/layout_generic.xsd">
    <referenceBlock name="render.product.prices">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="default" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="prices" xsi:type="array">
                    <item name="tier_price" xsi:type="array">
                        <item name="render_template" xsi:type="string">Learning_Custom::product/price/tier_prices.phtml
                    </item>
                </item>
            </argument>
        </arguments>
    </referenceBlock>
</layout>

Create template inside your module or copy base template file inside your module path should be -> app/code/Learning/Custom/view/frontend/templates/product/price/tier_prices.phtml

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