Recently I wrote a Magento extension called ActionLogger, inspired (thematically) by the “Logging of Administrator Actions” feature available in Magento Enterprise. ActionLogger is pretty simple extension, working on pretty simple but powerful concept of Magento controllers predispatch action.
All you need to do is to create event observer/observers for “controller_action_predispatch” event. This event is fired on every controller action call. Read more
Hello everyone, short while after I wrote article Add custom attribute to Magento’s PDF invoice I received quite a number of requests for explanation on how to add products images to PDF invoice. As I had some time, I’ve created an extension that will do just that.
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A new comment on my old post that explains how rel=canonical element (tag) works gave me inspiration to write another article about rel=canonical. This time, I’ll try to explain why and where rel=canonical is usually necessary in a Magento store.
I’ll leave technical implementation and decision should you use any of the existing extensions or go for custom implementation to you. I’ll just cover the marketing and SEO perspective on the issue. Read more
Today I’m going to give you and quick HOW-TO for beginners on how to create simple configuration for your extension inside Magento’s configuration section.
If you’re interested, read on:
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Today I had a problem when I want to add related product to Magento Professional 1.9.0.0., it did not work. After some tracing thrown errors and comparing files with other Magento versions I found missing part. Magento Professional has missing lines of code in Related.php. So, if someone stuck on the same problem, here is the solution!
Among most often custom coding tasks are usually those related to some import/export between Magento and other system. Usually existing store owners when switching from their current shop system to Magento want to transfer all of their products, orders, and most importantly customers.
Most of the time, standard Magento product/customer import/export is not sufficient for the task at hand. Limitations like file size upload and structure of original data require you to do a custom scripts that will handle the job of data transfer. Think of shops with several tens of thousands of orders, customers, products. Read more
Seems like folks in Magento are rolling fast with their Magento Go Platform. Few minutes ago I stumbled upon a url http://devsite-demo.magento.com which seems to host a development version of Go Platform’s developers site.
Although still limited with content, several interesting and bottom line things are already there.
Seems like Go Platform will use REST API approach to integrate an OpenSocial gadget in your Magento store. Given that we are talking about the Google’s Open Social, I’m very pleased to see them move in this direction. Meaning most of your development will come down to JavaScript, XML, XHTML, and a few calls to REST API’s. Read more
Couple of days ago I had a problem with contact form not working in Magento Professional 1.9.0.0. Magento was throwing error “Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later” after submitting form. Of course all requested fields was filled. Here I will explain what needs to be done if you have same problems.
As you might know, if you wish to work with Facebook Connect it requires your development site to be accessible to it for security reasons. So that it can verify that you (your application) have rights to access certain information from its users. In this article, in short, I’ll show you how to make your local development machine accessible from the internet. If that’s what you need, read on!
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Well, any version control system is great, at least in compare with none at all. But what’s happening with your database? Today I’ll show you how to create automated solution for backup and insertion of MySQL database into Git repository.
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