Programatically create customer and order in Magento with full blown “One Page Checkout” process under the hood

Its been a while since my last article. Figured I might write one before Google search punishes me -Recently I was working on a task that, among other things, required an order to be created programatically alongside with the customer and its billing and shipping address. Example I will demonstrate is just one way of doing things. If you have extra time on your hands, feel free to trace the code for more elegant...

Finally, Magento 1.4 is out

Recent few days I have been keeping my eye out on the Magento 1.4 release. I was filled with joy this morning when I noticed that Varian finally released 1.4 version. There are several reasons why I was looking forward to this release. One of the most important features for me are definetly the WYSIWYG editor for almost everything and the Widget functionality. The coolest thing about the implemented WYSIWYG editor...

The Inchooers

And here is something totally different, for all you Magento developers, The Inchooers. Made by Hrvoje Jurisic, one of our latest employee. Way the go Hrvoje.

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. Download Ajzele_CustomProduct. You can read more about it...

How to properly build Magento theme: Skinning, not theming

It been a while since my last article. I have been playing with Python and Django for the last few weeks. Figured I might write an article about Magento in a meanwhile (its been a while since my last post). Recently we had a discussion in company about how to improve certain areas of our development process. The idea was for our designers to come up with a design guidelines for later usage from within company....