Exponea Magento 2 tracking plugin

Setup

You should run the Magento software in developer mode when you’re extending or customizing it. You can use this command line to show current mode :

php bin/magento deploy:mode:show

Use this command to change to developer mode :

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

Installation

1. Copy Exponea plugin to <your_project>/app/code, the structure should be code/Exponea/Exponea.

2. In <your_project> directory run php bin/magento setup:upgrade && php bin/magento setup:di:compile

You can now find Exponea plugin in Magento 2 admin, go to Stores -> Configuration -> Exponea

Configuration

1. Get your project token from your Exponea app Project settings -> General settings, you will also need to use API secret and public key, you can generate those in Project settings -> API settings, select private in the dropdown and generate new key.

2. Default API route is https://api.exponea.com/track/v2/projects without the slash at the end.

Project structure

Block

Block is taking care of passing backend data to frontend, everything from Exponea.php can be passed to frontend using defined functions.

Controller

Controller classes are taking care of importing catalogs and orders to your project, in case of catalog you need to define the name of catalog you want to create.

Helpers

Helper.php includes all the parsing functions and encapsulations for the right formating of the request. You can use these functions to write observers, there's a parser function for every object you can track.

Models

Includes Tracking.php - sending POST requests to Exponea API you define in your configuration.

Observers

Includes all the backend observers. Each of them gets fired on a different action - located in etc/events.xml.

View

Includes all of the JavaScript that's included on frontend as a <script></script>.