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Ibiza anyone? 2 days to go!

2nd JUN 2011 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Fun & Events, Magento
Ibiza anyone? 2 days to go!

Three Inchooers are impatiently awaiting June 4th when they will start the journey to this years Magento Developers Paradise that will take place in Ibiza, Spain. This will be a great opportunity to meet fellow developers as we did last year and get first insight for Magento 2. Check out the interviews with the speakers.
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Automatically cancel pending orders older than 90 minutes

31st MAY 2011 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Magento, Orders
Automatically cancel pending orders older than 90 minutes

There are situations where you might with to automatically cancel orders older than 90 minutes. They stay in “pending_payment” state. This usually happen when the customer didn’t complete the checkout due any reason.
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Symfony2 Doctrine2 transactions

31st MAY 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
Symfony2 Doctrine2 transactions

Like everything else, using transactions in Symfony2 is easy task.
I had a case that I had to use transactions to make sure that everything or none is saved to database, because I didn’t wand anything to break at the half way and leave data unsaved. Read more

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Symfony2 Forms – Entity field type

31st MAY 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
Symfony2 Forms – Entity field type

NOTE: Tested on Symfony2 Beta3. Might not work on later releases!

Symfony2 offers many prebuilt field types for using when creating forms. The one of them I found interesting is ‘EntityType’. There are just basic documentation about that.

I had one case recently that I had to use Entity field type for creating form, but except using it in simple way like documented I wanted to use it on little more advanced way. Read more

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Flat tables in Magento and product collection

30th MAY 2011 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Database, Magento
Flat tables in Magento and product collection

You probaly know that Magento uses EAV database structure for categories, products. In some cases this solution is not the best or fastest.

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How to create custom attribute source type?

30th MAY 2011 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Magento
How to create custom attribute source type?

Have you ever need to create custom attribute source type? This is small example which will help you to create custom source type. I hope that it will be helpful.
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Guide through Magento’s timezones

30th MAY 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Administration, Configuration, Database, Magento, Programming
Guide through Magento’s timezones

I’ll guide you through Magento’s timezone behavior, as I’ve noticed that people tend to get confused in cases when they have 2 or more websites with different timezones. If this is what you are searching for, read on!
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Magento CMS syntax – part2

28th MAY 2011 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Administration, Magento
Magento CMS syntax – part2

Every Magento user noticed that there is special {{magentocode}} syntax available in cms pages and static blocks. We traced a bit to find out which params are available and what exactly they do. Read more

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Emulate store in Magento

26th MAY 2011 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Email, Magento, Programming
Emulate store in Magento

Magento 1.5 introduced very interesting piece of code that enables easy store emulation when programming, Emulation model a.k.a. Mage_Core_Model_App_Emulation class.

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Magento (How to fix): One or more of the Cache Types are invalidated: Blocks HTML output.

26th MAY 2011 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Debugging, Programming
Magento (How to fix): One or more of the Cache Types are invalidated: Blocks HTML output.

Somewhere around Magento 1.5, message from the title of this post begun to pop on every product save.
Although quite anoying, it is quite easy to fix and it seems that’s not a BUG, it is a feature – implemented without automatic block html cache refresh :)
I have tested it on Professional Edition and to be completely honest, I’m not sure if it will actually work on Magento CE,
but there is no reason why not (Please comment if it does).
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