Ecommerce developers with Magento

Magento has pretty neat image helper you can use to output your product photos. Today one of my coworkers got frustrated with the white frame he kept getting around the resized image he tried to output in sidebar block. As s possible solution he tried resolving the issue with CSS. However, there is a better, more nicer solution to ditch the whit frame around resized images in Magento.

We had a request from our client, that we change default number of items in Magento admin grid. Now, this is very simple, when we know how to change it. Below you can see an example which uses magento observer model and event hocking “core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before”.

Assuming you have set unique base URL foreach website running on the same Magento installation all you need to switch between those websites is this little snippet.
Just paste it somewhere in your templates.

However, keep in mind that I only tested this to work for my own configuration.

Basicly, what this snippet does is redirect to website’s default store base url.

Almost a year ago, I wrote about duplicate content issues with Magento. Since then, people have often been referring to Roy’s thread at Magento forums that quotes Google’s official blog.

If you need translations for your site but translation packs are not fully translated, then inline translation is very nice feature.
In this post I will cover entire process for inline translation in Magento.

We’ve been with Magento since it’s very beginning and we watched it grow and we grew with it. Somewhere in the second half of 2007, Magento started growing attention of ecommerce community.

Suppose you are working on a extension that needs to either change some stuff or implement new stuff in the one of the Magento admin areas. For example, imagine a “Images” tab on the product edit section. If you were in a position where you need to do certain modifications on “Images” tab then you would most likely need to modify the app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/product/helper/gallery.phtml file to do so. One of Inchoo coworkers and a good friend of mine, Ivan Weiler, made a Magento Admin theme module that enables you to achieve similar functionality for admin template files as you have for frontend template files.

This year started good for our team. Some very exciting opportunities arrived and we got our first two clients from Asia. Two employees got a high temperature and were absent for few days. Two new computers were bought and we also got two new guys. Those two are Luka Gabric – iPhone developer and Filip Svetlicic – Magento developer. Toni made a video interview with them with the bloopers at the end. Hope you’ll enjoy.

Given the sheer size of Magento system, its quite easy to loose valuable time when trying to achieve even the basic things like “Creating simplest ORM model class”. Substantial amount of serious programming in Magento requires you to write some values to database.

Magento made adding products to Google Base (Google Product Search) a pretty simple process that can be done using Magento’s admin interface. This guide will tell you how to do it and how to fix known issues.