The queue is running in case automatic indexing is turned on. If any problems are encountered, please make sure that: The App ID and API Keys are correct. For Layered Navigation, choose Filterable (with results). Under Attribute Information, click Storefront Properties. Browse or use filtered search to find an attribute in the list and open it in edit mode. Logging server http request data in app\code\core\Mage\Log\Model\Visitor.$configValue = $this->getProduct()->getPreconfiguredValues()->getData('options/'. When Algolia for Magento is installed, it automatically fetches the Magento product data, transforms it to a JSON structure and pushes this data to Algolia. On the Admin sidebar, go to Stores > Attributes > Product. If you look into \lib\Varien\Object.php You'll see some of the other methods that are available on Varien Objects, there's a few other ways to get a property in the varien object. I'd check out this article that explains where some of those Magento and PHP methods come from and how they work. Magento Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of the Magento e-Commerce platform. You might not want all of the Varien Object's inheireted data.It is probably more RAM and CPU friendly to use foreach($collection->toArray() as $product_data) to just get the basic data from the model as an array and you want to do some low level PHP logic. Let's say a collection of 5000+ products. The View Model class and its capabilities is the next lesson of the Magento 2 for Beginners course. avoids a database commit during the test/test case. so if any module overriding the functionality should have latest data. Like that Magento perform all operations systematically without changing the flow of request.
best practice is, instead of using object manager use factories. When the magentoDbIsolation is enabled, the ITF: starts a database transaction before the test/test case. Unlike Magento 1.x in magento 2 introduces factories which are used to set and get data of given object. The preferred method of passing data to a PHTML template is a usage of a View Model class. To isolate database changes between tests, the Integration testing framework (ITF) implements the magentoDbIsolation annotation.
However on larger collections of models, where there is a LOT of data. This is only one of the ways that you should be aware of when building custom Magento 2 functionality.
If you're getting data from a single or small number of Magento models then why make things harder for yourself.