Installing Magento Commerce and XAMPP on Windows 7
Sometimes it nice to have a local install of Magento on your machine so you may test different settings, extensions or modifications to your live site. Here I am going to show you how to properly setup...
View ArticleMagento Cache Management Overview and Tips
Here I am going to demonstrate how to use Magento cache management system. I will also show you how to do a hard cache flush of your magneto cache.Enjoy! Devin R. Olsen
View ArticleMagento – How to import and export your products
Here I will show you how to use Magento’s product importing and exporting feature. I will first export a simple product out to obtain an overview of Magento’s required CSV format. Then I will...
View ArticleMagento Custom Category Listing Block
Here I wanted to show you how to build a custom Magento category listing block that you can use on your own Magento store. We will go over each step at getting a category listing of your magneto...
View ArticleHow to Obtain Custom Attribute Values in Magento
Today let’s talk about Magento and custom attributes. With Magento you can create as many custom attributes for your products as you like, and there are different attribute types such as:Text FieldText...
View ArticleMagento Product’s Relative Parent Category Method
Today I want to quickly cover an area that I get asked about at least once a month, and that is “If a product belongs to more than one category.. how do I get the correct parent category while viewing...
View ArticleMagento Determine if Current Page is Category or Not
Sometimes you find your self in the need to determine if the current page a visitor is viewing is of a category or not. The reason for this could drastically very, but one good reason is the need for a...
View ArticleCombat Extreme – Facebook 3D Shooter
Hi readers! I thought I would take a different pace today, and instead of teaching lets play some games shall we? For over a year now I and my little brother have been working tirelessly on our first...
View ArticleRemove Page Breadcrumbs Per-page in Magento
Under either categories or CMS page’s design tab, include this XML command to remove the page’s breadcrumbs:<remove name="breadcrumbs" />This can be useful if you wish to have, say a page use the...
View ArticleRemove Page Headings Per-page in Magento
Under either categories or CMS page’s design tab, include this XML command to remove the page title:<remove name="page_content_heading" />This can be useful if you wish to have, say a page use...
View ArticleHow to Get Magento’s Email To A Friend URL
In the context of ever needing to get the “send an email to friend” url / link mark up from Magento in other scopes other than view.phtml (say a custom pthml file with layout specific needs that can be...
View ArticleAdding CMS Static Blocks to Magento Page Layouts
This will be short, but as you know phtml template files in Magento are stitched together using layout XML files. Sometimes we might have the need to include a static block we have created in the...
View ArticleCreating Magento Orders Programmatically
Sometimes you just want to have the ability to create orders on the fly that get entered into Magento’s backend like any other normal order would if going through the normal checkout process.In our...
View ArticleMagento Date Timestamp Formatting
I was working on some records in a customer module tonight and ran into the need to format dates the Magento stores in the created_at and updated_at attributes. The problem I was having was that no...
View ArticleMagento Adding Pagination To Custom Collection
If you are like me, you are working with collections a lot and more times than not you will be faced with the need to produce a pagination for your collections on the frontend.Magento already has a...
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