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No, this mail is not Junk, or how to properly configure Magento mailing

First of all I’m not really a Magento developer nor its power user or any sort of user for that matter. My primary function is server administration and configuration for hosted web sites, Magento included. Like any good developer you …

Getting selected simple product id in configurable product on client side.

If you need to get id of selected simple product in configurable product on client side you can do it in many different ways. Here is simple function how to achieve that with no code modification, new templates or even …

Adding magento attribute with custom input renderer

This is example which will explain you, how to add new attribute with custom input render. You will be able to modify existing functionality, add javascript, some other option or change default input renderer by your wishes. You probably will …

Backorders Report Magento Extension

Recently, i had a request to display a list of all backorders. Backorders have to be grouped by Manufacturers, also should be option to filter backorders by manufacturers. In this article, I will present you the extension, which solved the …

Custom Magento Events: Customer First Order

Often you will stumble upon a case where Magento lacks certain events that you can easily observe. Various business cases can sometimes truly stretch the boundaries of even the best shopping carts like Magento. Luckily, creating or more properly said …

What is base64 encoding and how can we benefit from it

What is base64 encoding/decoding and how we can benefit from this representation Base64 schemes represent binary data in an ASCII string format (English alphabet, common punctuation chars, control chars) by translating it into a base-64 representation. This basically means that …

Multiple configurable products with options on one page in Magento

Displaying configurable products with options on one page can be problem because Javascript in Magento is setup to work only with one configurable product. You can write your own Javascript or U can reuse Magento code. To accomplish that we …

Snowflakes Magento Extension

Happy holidays everyone. As you could notice, we have a new holiday header, new holiday wallpapers, and today we have something new. Creative sparks did their magic making us proud to present you Inchoo Snowflakes Magento Extension. Demo Update: As …

Inchooers Wallpaper – Christmas Edition

Christmas is near, and the Inchooers are already in Holidays mood. Feel free to join us. Download the wallpaper and enjoy Holidays even on your desktops Christmas Day 1920×1080 | 1680×1050

Facebook Connect Magento Extension

We’re proud to present free Facebook Connect Magento extension which enables customers fast and easy registration and login with their Facebook identity. And it’s just been updated! Important Facebook updated it’s authentication mechanism but so did we, so please update …

Geocoding Customer Addresses in Magento via Google Maps

Geocoding is the process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes)… so says Wikipedia. Geocoding an address is pretty simple if you are …

Delete test orders in Magento

You got a Magento project to develop, you created a Magento theme, you placed initial products and categories and you also placed some test orders to see if Shipping and Payment methods work as expected. Everything seems to be cool …

Display HTML code (block) of product options in Magento

This simple helper will help you to display html code of your product options. It works with simple, virtual and configurable products. I believe you can use the same approach for other product types as well. Getting HTML code for options …

Reusing Magento’s calendar control

One of the cool things in Magento is that there is so many controls (widgets, blocks), etc. that you can reuse on the frontend or on the backend. One such control is the calendar control. Calendar control is mostly just …

Creating an EAV based model(s) in Magento

Magento database heavily utilizes an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) data model. However, the cost of flexibility is often complexity. The process of manipulating EAV data in Magento is often more difficult than manipulating flat relational tables. All Magento Models inherit from the …

Simple Helper class for Previous/Next Products in Magento

One of the common requirements in Magento is to have prev/next product on Product Information page. Development logic there is simple, fetch current product id and take the one before and after that one and now you have previous and …

View product in frontend from Magento admin

When you are editing some product in Magento admin and want to check it out in frontend of your Magento project, how do you find this particular product? Do you search for it, navigate to it using product url key …

Executing Magento Indexer From Shell

In some situation when you want to re-index Magento catalog you will get an error message or reindex process will be broken. This problem is appearing when you have a lot of products in database and limited server resource. You …

Playing with customer collection in Magento

In this article I’ll give you some example how to get different collection of customers. For example, how to get latest 5 customers, unconfirmed customers, latest 5 customers who purchased something etc. I’ll create few objects that are instances of …

Magento Lite experiment

No, it’s not April Fools’ Day, it’s November, no Inchoo pranks. We played with something new this time. You all heard that Magento is modular platform a hundred times. It just needs a little push sometimes, so we pushed it …