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“Remember Me” checkbox extension in Magento

22nd DEC 2010 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Extensions, Magento

by OeilDeNuit/sxc

Hello everyone! I’ve created a small and simple module that creates “Remember Me” functionality to any Magento website. Its currently in testing phase, so I’d say it’s an alpha release. Read more

Order statuses “improvement” in 1.5

21st DEC 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Magento, News, Orders, Upgrading

by rodolfoclix/sxc

I took some time to install and do the quick check on Magento 1.5.0.0-alpha1. There was one thing that is impossible to miss: Improved order statuses.
I remember the days when people requested that feature all over ther forum. Oh yes… what feature? Custom order statuses
So, we have it out of the box finally! Or do we? Let’s see…
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Layout of your custom controller in Magento?

15th DEC 2010 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Frontend, Magento, MVC

When you work with custom (your own) controllers in Magento,
either frontend or backend, you will probably also use existing blocks and models or if needed write your own classes.
But what happens if you want to or have exigency to move/remove common blocks?
Can you really “design” your own page view without touching Cascading Style Sheets?
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Inchoo Developers module v1.0.1

9th DEC 2010 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Extensions, Magento

When you read the title of this article you will probably think that this module has all that you need for the development stage of your magento project. Once again, you are wrong.

I was thinking of somenthing that can be useful to me and speed up some common actions in development stage and I think that this module can be helpful, especially for those who works on “live” server and need to test some new features they have developed.

Magento Extensions Quality Assurance Certification

1st DEC 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento

Ah, what a mouthful. First off all, sorry to disappoint you, as this article is purely result of my imagination. There is no such thing as “Magento Extensions Quality Assurance Certification” (aka MEQAC) at least not at the moment (as to 1/12/2010).

But let’s for a moment imagine there is such thing. Let’s discuss one possible direction of thinking. Let’s discuss the current issues with Magento extensions development. Read more

How to extend Magento Order Grid?

30th NOV 2010 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Administration, Magento, Orders

Here is small example which explains how to modify order grid. Main class for order grid is “Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Grid”, if you want to add some column you have to rewrite this class (block).
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Programmatically change Magento’s core config data

28th NOV 2010 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Configuration, Magento, Programming

Every Magento installation has certain core configuration data already set. When you update those values from the administration interfaces, changes are saved mainly to core_config_data database table. It seems important and something that you shouldn’t touch, right? As always, there are times you will wish to get your hands on it. In some cases you will wish to chance settings directly from the code. This article demonstrates the proper way.

Merging JavaScript in Magento

28th NOV 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Frontend, Magento

This is not very tehnical article and most of you already use this feature, however I have noticed that there are many shops that are not using Magento’s default feature to merge JavaScript files. At the time prior to Magento 1.4, JavaScript merging was included, however it was limited to 10 files. Now that’s not a case anymore.
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Setting up Magento on Git repository

26th NOV 2010 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Magento, Starting up

Hello everyone! Recently I wrote a short article Git vs SVN A.K.A. Everyone likes control. Now, I wanted to give you an “real life” example of putting Magento project into Git repository. Read more