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How to make configurable options autoselected on Product view page

20th SEP 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Frontend, Magento, Products
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If you ever tried to do anything with Magento configurable products view page, most likely you needed changes in  /js/varien/product.js in case you wanted to manipulate dropdowns.

This will be one of the ways to do it. Read more

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Standard procedure to upgrade Magento to the newest version

20th SEP 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Magento, Upgrading
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I can’t give you exact recipe how to upgrade your specific Magento installation, but I’ll try to explain my standard procedure when getting Magento up to date. Read more

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How to add massactions to Magento’s grid

20th SEP 2010 | Posted by Vedran Subotic in Administration, Magento
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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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Magento performance, research and improvement

19th SEP 2010 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Database, Debugging, Magento, Programming
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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.

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Magento’s database layout and its EAV structure

15th SEP 2010 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Database, Magento
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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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Contact Form in Magento

10th SEP 2010 | Posted by Domagoj Potkoc in Frontend, Magento
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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

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Basic folder structure for new Magento Extension

1st SEP 2010 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Extensions, Magento
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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

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How to resolve and debug “Failed to parse response” errors in Magento API

14th AUG 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
How to resolve and debug “Failed to parse response” errors in Magento API

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

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OK Auto – More than OK

13th AUG 2010 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento, Wordpress
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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.

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Extending the Magento API

12th AUG 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento, Programming
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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

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