Bring Christmas to your Web
Christmas time is coming to our doors each day closer and closer. Remember the joy you got every year when Christmas comes?! Cleaning your car every morning before you go to work, driving trough the...
View ArticleSimple Controller Plugin in Zend Framework
This tutorial will describe how to create own Controller Plugin. How to set up environment for zend framework controller plugin. How extend the library with own class and finally how to use it. Plugin...
View ArticleMagento custom designed gallery with cu3er
Here is example how you can extend and reuse your own code. I saw at cu3er site cool gallery effects and I thought why not implement it with magento. So I used my old gallery module and add some stuff....
View ArticleThere has been an error processing your request.
Are you sick and tired of scrolling you browser when you get Magento error, trying to read and trace it? Here is a post of my colleague Ivan Weiler which describes how to enable error information in...
View ArticleHow to disable email sending when programatically creating an order in Magento
Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento. My issue was that I had to disable emails beeing sent out to...
View ArticleWampDeveloper – My Choice for web development platform
This isn’t post for ordinary people, so if you do not know what is virtual host or how to set it up please skip this article and don’t waste your time. But if you wish to save your time you will use...
View ArticleHow to add massactions to Magento’s grid
This article describes how does Magento’s mass actions work and how to add them in your existing grids. You need to do 2 things: - extend the block (grid) class with “protected function...
View ArticleMagento Enterprise 1.9.0.0 redirects to home page instead of 404 error page
If you have installed and working on latest Magento’s Enterprise Edition 1.9.0.0, you could find some strange behavior with 404 error page and landing page. People say there is a patch for this, but I...
View ArticleHow to generate your own reports in Magento
Coolest thing in Magento’s is generating your own reports. The quickest way to create Magento’s reports is to generate them through the grids. First you will need to create collection of data which you...
View ArticleZend Framework navigation with breadcrumbs
It’s been a while since I last time played with beauty of Zend Framework. Each time I check new features it seems to me that the things are more simplier than the last time, I might be wrong (I...
View ArticleHow to set multiple stores/websites with one magento installation on...
This article will describe quickest way how to use and configure one Magento installation on different domains. Point here is what do you want to have on that different domains, for example you want to...
View ArticleHow to work with SVN and Zend Framework in Eclipse PDT
This post is for all those Eclipse fans. Latest version of Eclipse PDT can be found at: http://www.zend.com/community/pdt If you choose 64 bit version be sure that your jre version is also x64. On you...
View ArticleProgrammatically change Magento’s core config data
Every Magento installation has certain core configuration data already set. When you update those values from the administration interfaces, changes are saved mainly to core_config_data database table....
View ArticleInchoo Developers module v1.0.1
When you read the title of this article you will probably think that this module has all that you need for the development stage of your magento project. Once again, you are wrong. I was thinking of...
View ArticleLayout of your custom controller in Magento?
When you work with custom (your own) controllers in Magento, either frontend or backend, you will probably also use existing blocks and models or if needed write your own classes. But what happens if...
View ArticleHow to add an external javascript/css file to Magento?
Have you ever had a need for adding external files into your Magento layout? If you had then you know that you cannot do that from your xml layout files using methods/action: <action...
View ArticleAdvanced layout updates for categories and products in Magento
Recently I had a task to modify sorting in only one category of Magento shop. What I had to do is “only” to change which attribute will be used for default sorting and I needed to reverse ordering from...
View ArticleGoogle Rich Snippets in Magento
Probably most of the store owners would like to have their products to be highlighted among other search results in search engines. Google’s Rich snippets can help you to get desired results. All you...
View ArticleHow to add new custom category attribute in Magento
Sometimes you need to extend functionality of Magento categories. There is several ways to do that, I will show you how it can be done. You can do that by modifying and adding data into some of tables...
View ArticleSimple Helper class for Previous/Next Products in Magento
One of the common requirements in Magento is to have prev/next product on Product Information page. Development logic there is simple, fetch current product id and take the one before and after that...
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