Posts Tagged ‘Magento tutorials’

How to disable email sending when programatically creating an order in Magento

Monday, August 16th, 2010

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 Continue reading…

How to set multiple websites with multiple store views in Magento

Monday, August 16th, 2010

If you work with Magento, sooner or later you will end up needing multiple websites that have multiple languages. Most of you know this, but I hope someone will still find this post useful. Continue reading…

10 useful magento extensions

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Whether your web-shop is already generating revenue or it’s at it’s very beginning, it’s always good to enhance it where it’s needed especially if it’s for free.

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How to set FedEx shipping in Magento

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

This is guide about setting FedEx shipping method in Magento. Continue reading…

5 reasons why Magento users don’t abandon their shopping cart

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

And why you should not abandon the practice yourself. These 5 points are making a strong case when it comes to web shopping : Continue reading…

How to set multiple websites with multiple store views in Magento

Monday, May 24th, 2010

If you work with Magento, sooner or later you will end up needing multiple websites that have multiple languages.

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There has been an error processing request

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Are you sick and tired of scrolling you browser when you get Magento error, trying to read and trace it? Continue reading…

Magento maintenance and error features

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

New Magento 1.4 brings changes in how errors are displayed along with an easy way to put your favorite store into maintenance mode. Continue reading…

Get content of static block in magento

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Hi guy,

There are some small code to get content or other info of static block which you created on admin panel.

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<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('yourBlockName')->toHtml() ?>

URL paths in Magento

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

URL paths in code file:

Magento had some very handy functions that easily allow you to find some fundamental urls of your site from your phtml files so you can avoid hardcoding them. These are:

$this->getBaseUrl() – returns the base url of your store (funnily enough)

$this->getSkinUrl() – returns the url of the folder containing your css, images and local js files (eg skin/frontend/default/your_theme, will vary depending on what package and theme the page is using).

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