Sometimes, Magento will add a SID parameter to your url like http://myshop.net/customer/?SID=96408b4e5b7c426e76b6a0e29292dca7. This can break up your code and make certain pages render as non existing depending on how you outputted your form action urls. In case you need a quick fix, all you need is to open the...

Today I was working on my Mapy project/extension. In one moment I accidentally pasted my method two times into the same class. In most of the cases, error like this would manifest itself like “Cannot redeclare…” on the output. However, API stuff is abstracted trough several layers/classes. One way of debugging this is to open the...

After over a two years of everyday development with Magento I have developed a strong feelings about the way that Magento directory structure is composed. It might sound strange or silly, but I guaranty you that Magento folder structure adds certain amount of unnecessary time to development process. What bothers me the most is the way you are forced to develop...

Yesterday I got my hands on printed edition of “The Definitive Guide to Magento by Adam McCombs and Robert Banh” book. Our company purchased it among other few books. When it comes to IT books I am mostly skeptical, cause rarely they manage to fill in even the “a bit more advanced” sections. Given the fact that this book is all about...

Recently I bought myself a brand new 18.4 Toshiba Satellite laptop. Given the job I work on, one of the first things for me was to setup my self a web server so I can work my magic on Magento related project. At the moment I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop, so I figured why not try installing Zend Server CE (5.0.2, latest as of time of this...

Sometimes when doing an import in Magento from old shop system you are faced with lot of issues related to attributes. For instance your old shop system might have several product attributes that simply do not fit into the default Magento attributes. In such cases you need to create these attributes manually in the Magento admin, assign them to the appropriate...