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How to modify existing extension without fear?

16th MAR 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Checkout, Extensions, Integration, Magento, Orders
How to modify existing extension without fear?

Today I’m going to give you an real life example on how to modify commercial extension in painless manner. If you know how to modify it – great, but is your approach best one? I’ve added functionality and modified behaviour of OSC’s OneStepCheckout extension without any fear of what will happen if client decides to upgrade it to newer version. And finally – here’s how!
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Magento Conflict Checker

10th MAR 2011 | Posted by Zeljko Prsa in Extensions, Magento
Magento Conflict Checker

There are may extensions out there but this one should possibly enlisted before any other. Checking for extension compatibility can be tiresome but this one eases the pain a little bit. Read more

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MagentoGO screenshot tour

2nd MAR 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, Magento GO
MagentoGO screenshot tour

MagentoGO has been released few days ago. To be more precise on 28th of February 2011. For those interested here are few screenshots from its Admin panel. Read more

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Teraflex’s Magento Design featured on the CSS Design Awards

1st MAR 2011 | Posted by Lyssandro Reis in Design, Frontend, Magento
Teraflex’s Magento Design featured on the CSS Design Awards

For those who are still not aware; at Inchoo we handle your store front design with the same care we do your development and transform your online store into an online success. Teraflex is a good example, last Friday we were advised that Teraflex’s storefront design had been nominated for the CSS Design Awards.
Just like when inchoo.net was nominated for the prize; we need your support, vote for Terraflex.biz on cssdesignawards.com

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Add “increment field” functionality to Magento’s quantity fields

28th FEB 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Extensions, Frontend, Magento
Add “increment field” functionality to Magento’s quantity fields

You’ve maybe noticed that Magento’s quantity inputs are just plain input fields, and if you wish to change it’s value, you have to erase value manually and enter new one on your numpad. Today I’ll show you how to add plus and minus signs by each input for quantity by implementing my colleague’s unobtrusive approach. If interested, read on!
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Insert dynamical menu in Magento’s Admin

24th FEB 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Administration, Configuration, Magento, Programming
Insert dynamical menu in Magento’s Admin

Hello everyone! I’ve recently got frustrated with Magento’s core functionality which requires XML definition for Administration menus. And I really wanted to add quick website / store links to it. Solution was to overwrite one of Magento’s Adminhtml blocks, and inject my non-XML, dynamic menu to it. If you’re interested in how I did it, read on. Read more

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Advanced layout updates for categories and products in Magento

24th FEB 2011 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Configuration, Frontend, Magento, MVC, Products
Advanced layout updates for categories and products in Magento

Recently I had a task to modify sorting in only one category of Magento shop.
What I had to do is “only” to change which attribute will be used for default sorting and I needed to reverse ordering from ascending to descending.
Task seems simple, right?
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How you could serve static content files from your Magento extension folder

24th FEB 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento
How you could serve static content files from your Magento extension folder

As a part of my personal ongoing “unobtrusive Magento extensions” campaign. I will show you another “hack”/approach you can apply in order to squeeze your static files under the main extension folder.

When I say static, I am mainly referring to images, CSS and JavaScript in this case.

For example, imagine you are coding an extension called “Sociable“, which will display several links to various web services like Twitter, GoogleBuzz, etc. Links that you can click and the publish a short message about a product/category on that web service. Something like on the image shown below. Logical question is, where do you store your images? Read more

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How you could build your Magento extensions without view files

22nd FEB 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Frontend, Magento
How you could build your Magento extensions without view files

The main idea behind this article is something I previously wrote, making your extensions more distributable, less error prone, less depended, less intrusive. Such extensions are then more “safer” to be fetched and installed via Magento Connect. When I say safer I am thinking in terms of your extension not breaking someone live store, etc.

I would dare to say that one of the most annoying and dangerous areas of extension development are the theme view files. For example, imagine an extension that adds some “color switcher” like functionality on the product view page. Read more

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Configurable product modification in Magento

22nd FEB 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Configuration, Extensions, Frontend, Magento, Programming
Configurable product modification in Magento

In this article, I’ll give you extension that will change drop down selection (select field) to radio buttons on configurable products in Magento Community edition.
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