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Case Study from Australia: Clickable Automotive

Case Study from Australia: Clickable Automotive

I would like to share with the community another Magento Case and a fine example of collaboration between Clickable Automotive, Inchoo Australia and Inchoo Headquarters. This article also provides a good overview of how we approach a previously developed Magento store with the objective to establish a long-term relationship with our client and ensure satisfaction.

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Inchoo Flickr Gallery Magento Extension

Inchoo Flickr Gallery

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Inchoo Flick Gallery is an easy-to-use Magento extension that will integrate any Flickr gallery into your Magento website. It is fully customizable using a simple Magento back-end configuration page and it uses Flickr API to get all the required information and data. Extension is tested on Magento 1.6 and 1.7 but it’s still the first version so be careful if you decide to use it on your live site. Read more

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How to add static blocks to main navigation dropdown?

How to add static blocks to main navigation dropdown?

forwardcom@sxc.hu

Many stores require some additional information in the main navigation drop-down section. Displaying only subcategories might not always be enough and I noticed this is becoming a trend on shopping sites now days. Although there are many ways to accomplish this (including building you own custom module) I would like to show you a more clever way that will allow you to use static blocks and easily connect them with product categories. Read more

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Inchoo Demostore extension

Inchoo Demostore extension

kikashi@sxc.hu

In my last project, during development of API extension for Mageboard application, when started to develope Apple Push Notifications Services integration, one problem came out that took me too much time each day to solve: Push notifications are supposed to be active only if some new order and/or customer is made on site.

So if there are no constant new orders and/or new customers, I can not test my APNS integration. Read more

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Magento mobile theme – imobile

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Magento meets jQuery mobile (ver 1.1.0), before we start please note this is only experiment, use this theme on your own, this is not (yet) production ready. In a nutshell we have “package” under which we place all edited files. For start we use magento iphone theme and then add some “extra stuff”. Read more

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Magento API v2 SOAP demystified

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123dan321@sxc.hu

Last few weeks, i often see confused people asking questions about difference between Magento’s API v1 and v2, and also bunch of questions about how to use WSDL and WS-I files when developing own or extending existing Magento soap API v2.
It is obvious that short articles about specific Magento API parts will not help them to get the bigger picture about Magento core API v2. Because of that, I decided to demystify practical usage of Magento API v2 and also to explain difference when using v1 and/or v2 API.

Let’s start from beginning, to everything clear later:

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Injecting Variables into a Magento CMS static block

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In this tutorial i’ll show you how to inject any custom variable you need into a cms static block in place of a {{var variable_name}} tag. You’ve seen this in the email templates if you were working on them (in the matter of fact the model (filter) we’re calling is extending the same filter the email templates are using for injecting the variables). Read more

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How to implement rel=prev and rel=next to Magento’s pagination?

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As most of you know that “When dealing with online stores with a lot of products, pagination on category pages can get really problematic for search engines” like Toni Anicic wrote in his article. I don’t want to repeat his words, but to show you how you can add rel=”prev” and rel=”next” link tag attributes in the head tag for pages, which will boost your SEO. This peace of code is already provided by Magento community, but this is improved version. Read more

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The Difference

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Hello Magento community! My name is Zdravko Karanovic and I work as a branch manager and a team leader here at Inchoo office in Serbia. As I am one of the few Inchooers who doesn’t code, I don’t get to write those exciting articles about extending controllers or making cool Magento modules for that latest social network.
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Magento certification cheat sheet revealed!

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arroclint@sxc.hu

After a joint effort of 42 developers worldwide who took the Magento Certified Developer exam over the last 12 weeks, we bring you the ultimate cheat sheet for getting certified – with a 100% pass rate guaranteed! Read more

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