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Creating a new product type in Magento
Given the complexity of Magento, here is a little module I wrote about on Inchoo.net site that might help you learn how to create your own product.
Getting started with Magento widgets
Just a follow up on my previous post over at Inchoo.net site. I have placed a copy of my blank Magento widget extension to be available for download here on ActiveCodeline as well.
Download [ ActiveCodeline_WidgetOne.tar ].
Hope you’ll find it useful.
One Step Checkout in Magento
In contrary to all the efforts Magento team put into One Page Checkout functionality there are lot of people that find it annoying and non-user friendly. I would dare to say I am one of them. Besides myself, lot of our clients have expressed their desire for simpler checkout page.
Lets face it, if you are [...]
Moving Magento site, missing images in catalog
Recently I have came across one funny issue. Interesting how issue can be funny. One of our clients had a request for Magento upgrade, from version 1.2 to 1.3.2.4. Most of you in in Magento development will likely to agree when I say that Magento upgrades can be a night mare. Luckily for me, this [...]
Any news on Magento 1.4, the final version?
Surely I am not the only one waiting for this one to get launched. Seems like Magento took some resting time and left us waiting on Magento 1.4 version. I remember their release timeliness from version 1.2-1.3.2.4. Seemed like they are publishing new release every few weeks.
Looking at features of Magento 1.4 makes me wanna [...]
Bulk disable multiple Magento products
With all its ORM, model, resource and so on greatness, sometimes platform limitations are too obvious in Magento when it comes to large number of products in store. Recently I faced a simple task, I needed to disable around 6500 products in Magento that were assigned to a single category called “Inactive Products”. Given [...]
Color switcher (improved) for Magento, part 1
Long time ago, I wrote an article on “Color switcher topic” named Magento product image change on colour selection. Given that it is an old article and that my understanding of Magento inner workings has grown significantly, I would like to show you a new concept, or shall I say a new way of doing [...]
Invoice printing to PDF taking to long in Magento?
Recently I was assigned a task to check the slowness of PDF printing on invoice page of Magento admin. It took him around 5minutes to print PDF (return PDF document on Invoice page). After diving into the code trying to trace the issue I found what was the cause of slow printing. PDF document that [...]
Magento sites hacked
Huh, this has been crazy week. I’ve been doing lot of Magento upgrades. Last night I upgraded one of sites to latest 1.3.2.4 Magento version (as of time of this writing). By pure accident I discovered a virus placed under the “app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Controller” folder. It was in form of malicious php script named “81632.php” and “htaccess” [...]
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