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Geocoding Customer Addresses in Magento via Google Maps

14th DEC 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento

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 using Google Maps API. Since all we do here is Magento, let me show you how easily you can geocode customer address. Read more

Delete test orders in Magento

13th DEC 2011 | Posted by Dejan Radic in Magento, Orders

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 and the client wishes to launch the site. You launch it. When you enter the administration for the first time after the launch, you will see all your test orders there. You know those should be deleted. But how?
This is a new version of the same article.
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Display HTML code (block) of product options in Magento

13th DEC 2011 | Posted by Goran Sambolic in Frontend, Magento, Products

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 of configurable products its little different from simple and virtual (well they are more or less same).

Update: for all types in configurable product.

Reusing Magento’s calendar control

6th DEC 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Frontend, Magento, Programming

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 used on the backend, aka “adminhtml” area. You can easily figure that one out if you do a quick search for a “Calendar.setup” string on “app/design” folder, in which case you would get several search results but all from “app/design/adminhtml/” folder. Read more

Creating an EAV based model(s) in Magento

4th DEC 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento, Programming

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 Mage_Core_Model_Abstract. Difference between simple Model or an EAV Model is its Model Resource.

To build a model with proper collection object in Magento you need 4 things Read more

Simple Helper class for Previous/Next Products in Magento

1st DEC 2011 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Frontend, Magento, Products

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 next products Remember that this will work per category only, since you will get list of products in current category.

View product in frontend from Magento admin

15th NOV 2011 | Posted by Ivica Tadic in Administration, Magento, Products

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 or just browse to it? Well, however you do it, I’m going to give you the easiest way to get to your desired product in the frontend – view product link.
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Executing Magento Indexer From Shell

11th NOV 2011 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Database, Magento

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 can try to reindex from command line or shell. Read more

Playing with customer collection in Magento

7th NOV 2011 | Posted by Dejan Radic 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.
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Magento Lite experiment

6th NOV 2011 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Magento

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 First of all ..
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