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Developing extensions that react unobtrusively with Magento

26th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento

The way I see it, there are two type of extensions for Magento (or even any other eCommerce solution):

  1. Community Free/Commercial extensions
  2. Custom extensions

Community Free/Commercial extensions would be all those extensions that you can either freely download/install trough various websites or official Magento connect or purchase from the developer if they are commercial.

Custom extensions are those which result from custom development work by some freelance developer or development team, specific to project. Usually they tend to be non-general, in terms of not usable on wider range of other Magento projects as they fulfil specific client shop need. Read more

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Setting up Magento debug enviroment using xdebug and Aptana Studio

25th NOV 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Magento, Programming, Starting up, Tools & Frameworks
Setting up Magento debug enviroment using xdebug and Aptana Studio

I’m using Aptana studio for few months already.
It is Eclipse/PDT based so I’m sure all this can be achieved in any Eclipse based platform. Read more

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Magento LightSpeed Extension – Review

22nd NOV 2010 | Posted by Ivan Lozancic in Extensions, Magento, Tools & Frameworks
Magento LightSpeed Extension – Review

In the last 7 years of my involvement with web development I have had an opportunity to open a great number of different “boxes“ when looking for web site improvement. After opening these “boxes” things often didn’t seem as it was specified – luckily this is not a case with Magento Lightspeed extension : ) Read more

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Dispatching before and after events to Magento core actions

22nd NOV 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Events & Observers, Magento, MVC
Dispatching before and after events to Magento core actions

As we all probably know, there are some events in Magento that are dispatched by default.
We can easily hook on those events, but this is not a subject of this article.

What we are going to try now is to add custom event before and after some action in some of Magento’s controllers.
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Magento L.E.S.S.

19th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Email, Magento
Magento L.E.S.S.

Sometimes its all about title, right?! So, what is LESS? Well, its my fancy acronym for something utterly simply but very practical. It stands for (L)ocalhost (E)mail (S)erver (S)imulator. Basically its neither email server or simulator in the real sense of word. Its just a little trick you can apply on the “app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template.php” file to compensate for lack of the local email server in your development environment while developing for Magento. Read more

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Why are you switching to Magento?

17th NOV 2010 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento, Starting up
Why are you switching to Magento?

“Hello! I run an online store for a few years. It was developed in osCommerce originally and that’s why the sales suck. I would like you guys to move my shop to Magento. I heard a lot of good things about it and I’m sure that once we move there, our sales will skyrocket.” This is simplified version of a talk I had few days ago.
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Misuse of helper classes in Magento?

15th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, MVC, Programming
Misuse of helper classes in Magento?

In its MVC structure, Magento allows you to throw in additional classes that might not fit in strictly under the MVC “letters”. One example of these classes are helper classes. These are usually used to isolate a certain, possibly useful, algorithm. Algorithm whose usage would be overhead to write a model as it is more static and general in nature, meaning there is no point in applying it to given instance of an object. Read more

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How to extend Magento core controller?

10th NOV 2010 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Magento, MVC, Tools & Frameworks
How to extend Magento core controller?

Hi, today I’ll show you how to edit Magento’s core module without messing with core files themselves, or “the right way of doing things”. :D Read more

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Automated testing of Magento with Watir

6th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
Automated testing of Magento with Watir

Few months ago I was attending this web conference where among various topic one covered the “Automated testing”. To be honest I never looked into any “automated testing” tools until then. This was the first time I heard about this tool called Watir. Shortly put, Watir (pronounced water), is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. Read more

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Keeping your Magento fit with built in profiler

3rd NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
Keeping your Magento fit with built in profiler

Default Magento installation has this great feature called “Profiler” that can play important role with your custom Magento development. This feature is meant to be be used for developer only. If used properly it can help you get valuable information of certain code parts during development. Read more

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