This article describes how does Magento’s mass actions work and how to add them in your existing grids.
You need to do 2 things:
- extend the block (grid) class with “protected function _prepareMassaction()”
- add an action into your controller, which will handle your desired logic.
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I made a small research regarding Magento performance. Perhaps, you already know it, but I would like to share this with other people who probably haven’t heard about this problem.
Greetings fellow developers! Today I’ll try to explain the principles of EAV system and Magento’s implementation of it. This is a tutorial / explenation for beginners, so please be patient and even try to draw the logic on a paper if you don’t understand it. A small notice before we start. I won’t use specific SQL query examples since this will be a simplified example of principles of the EAV.
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As you know, Magento has a built-in contact form that can be used for general contacts. That form isn’t part of any CMS page, you cannot edit some introduction text, you cannot add phone numbers administration, and you cannot see the breadcrumbs. If you wish to edit text in that default contact form, you will need to update front-end files. Luckily, there is an alternative. Read more
When I had first contact with Magento platform, I had to create a custom module for it. I thought to myself – how hard can it be? How wrong I was… I didn’t even know where to start… Read more
Today I was working on my Mapy project/extension. In one moment I accidentally pasted my method two times into the same class. In most of the cases, error like this would manifest itself like “Cannot redeclare…” on the output. However, API stuff is abstracted trough several layers/classes. One way of debugging this is to open the app/code/core/Mage/Api/Model/Server/Handler/Abstract.php file and look for “public function call($sessionId, $apiPath, $args = array())” method. Read more
Looks like we are becoming specialist for creation of off-road online stores. OK Auto had s strong online presence for years presenting themselves as a source for all of your automotive and off-road needs. It is always a challenge to decide to abandon existing website backend and move to a new platform, especially when you have a lot of content. OK Auto had this courage and moved to Magento & WordPress integration using advantages of both platforms to the maximum.
If you are in the business of developing a mobile application or external web/desktop or some other application/service that needs to communicate with Magento trough its API, then my friend you are out of luck. I am not going to say Magento API is a trash, I’ll simply say it massively lacks certain methods within the existing exposed classes that will make your external application usable. Read more
Every now or then we need new column on some grid listing in Magento. It is quite simple task, but you will probably want to format values way you want or whatever.
This is where writing your own renderer would be usefull and simple. Read more
Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento. Read more
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