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Facebook Connect Magento Extension
3 Comments 9th MAR 2010 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Magento

We’re proud to present free Facebook Connect Magento extension which enables customers fast and easy registration and login with their Facebook identity.
Read more...New maintenance and error features
1 Comment 6th MAR 2010 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Magento

New Magento 1.4 brings changes in how errors are displayed along with an easy way to put your favorite store into maintenance mode.
Read more...Magento Admin Grid: how to change number of rows
1 Comment 1st MAR 2010 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Magento

We had a request from our client, that we change default number of items in Magento admin grid. Now, this is very simple, when we know how to change it. Below you can see an example which uses magento observer model and event hocking “core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before”.
Read more...Magento snippet for switching between websites
4 Comments 1st MAR 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in E-Commerce, Magento

Assuming you have set unique base URL foreach website running on the same Magento installation all you need to switch between those websites is this little snippet.
Just paste it somewhere in your templates.
However, keep in mind that I only tested this to work for my own configuration.
Basicly, what this snippet does is redirect to website’s default store base url.
Read more...Magento 1.4 great new features
6 Comments 22nd FEB 2010 | Posted by Željko Prša in Magento

Among a lot of new improvements to Magento introduced with the 1.4 version there are some new features that stand out in terms of content management, system performance and also some user enhancing functionalities.
Read more...Magento FirePHP extension
13 Comments 20th FEB 2010 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Magento

FirePHP is Firefox add-on that enables you to log to your Firebug Console, which makes it great debugging tool for any web developer. I’m using it, like it and can’t live without it for some time now
So here’s nicely packed Magento FirePHP extension, I believe you’ll be seeing it at Magento Connect in a while.
Inline translation in Magento
3 Comments 8th FEB 2010 | Posted by Filip Svetlicic in Magento

If you need translations for your site but translation packs are not fully translated, then inline translation is very nice feature.
In this post I will cover entire process for inline translation in Magento.
How to override Magento admin view (template) files, quick and dirty way
4 Comments 31st JAN 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento

Suppose you are working on a extension that needs to either change some stuff or implement new stuff in the one of the Magento admin areas. For example, imagine a “Images” tab on the product edit section. If you were in a position where you need to do certain modifications on “Images” tab then you would most likely need to modify the app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/product/helper/gallery.phtml file to do so. One of Inchoo coworkers and a good friend of mine, Ivan Weiler, made a Magento Admin theme module that enables you to achieve similar functionality for admin template files as you have for frontend template files.
Read more...Magento: How to get all active payment modules
3 Comments 27th JAN 2010 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Magento

This code bellow will get you all active Magento payment modules. This example below return an array which you can use to create drop down menu or something else in Magento’s front-end or admin sections.
Read more...How to create a new product type in Magento
7 Comments 21st JAN 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento

Magento comes packed with several product types: simple, grouped, configurable, virtual, bundle, downloadable. Sometimes clients request can reach beyond any of these built in product types functionality. In such cases, usual way of handling things is throwing some new attributes and hooking into some events from which you can handle and “re-route” certain logic.
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Brilliant, thanks... - Ross on Facebook Connect Magento Extension:
Looks useful, thanks! Do you have plans to upload this extension to Magento Connect?... - Toni Anicic on Featured products on Magento frontpage:
@Jessica, This code is really old (like 2008 old) and has not been tested with Magento 1.4, we ha... - Ondrej on Facebook Connect Magento Extension:
any chance making this extension comaptible with magento 1.3 as well? I am still running 1.3.2.4... - Jessica on Featured products on Magento frontpage:
Heyy Toni! Thanks for the quick reply. Actually I saw the extension but I would want this one since ... - Toni Anicic on Featured products on Magento frontpage:
@Jessica, We now have a Magento extension for this, there is no need to use this code. Check it o... - Jessica on Featured products on Magento frontpage:
Forgot to add. I am using magento 1.4.... - Jessica on Featured products on Magento frontpage:
Hi, I've used the code and products are showing up on the homepage. But when I click on the product ... - Radiant Barrier on Delete test orders in Magento:
Very effective query. We had a lot of test data in our database, and we're lauching into production... - Sean on Facebook Connect Magento Extension:
Going to get this up on one of our magento installs today to test :) Great work as always....


