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Making use of Magento getSingleton method

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In one of my previous articles I showed you how to use getModel and getData methods in Magento. Although we should not put those to methods at the same level, …

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Getting things in Magento by getModel and getData methods

Getting things in Magento by getModel and getData methods

One of my previous articles was about getting a product information using getData method. This article is a step forward in that direction. I’m gonna show you how to retrieve …

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Retrieving product information in Magento

Retrieving product information in Magento

If you are developing Magento template sooner or later you will need to obtain some product information and rearrange it to fit your template. One of the most useful function …

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PHP form data binding

PHP form data binding

I am working on a project that has a lot of user input forms. Forms are used to submit entries to MySQL database. Submitting values to forms and processing them …

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Retrieving URL paths in Magento

Retrieving URL paths in Magento

Magento comes with built in function for retrieving URL paths. Function is called getBaseUrl() and its located under Mage class. However, function is not documented as it should be. Documentation …

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PHP tricks with object oriented programming

PHP tricks with object oriented programming

Programming PHP the right way as with any other OOP language requires knowledge and understanding of OOP concepts. For those of you who don’t know this by now, OOP stand …

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Figuring out Magento object context

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One of the problems working under the hood of the Magento CMS is determining the context of $this. If you are about to do any advanced stuff with your template, …

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What makes Magento so hard to learn

What makes Magento so hard to learn

Most of us in ecommerce application development have already heard of Magento. Some would call it new ecommerce killer app. I myself stand with that statement for many of reasons. …

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Moving Magento site from development to live server

Moving Magento site from development to live server

This article has been closed for comments on March 17th, 2009. Approach below has been shown to work. If you experience unexpected results following this approach, then please revise the …

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Magento upgrade and broken templates

Magento upgrade and broken templates

Few days ago I had a task of upgrading Magento ver. 1.0.19870.1 to Magento ver. 1.1.1. When you are doing something like that on your own development machine, you probably …

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