Tag Archives: Magento

Taming magento errors display

Taming magento errors display

Murphy says: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. When it happens to your store it’s best to get the information about it ASAP and present the error in the most humane possible way. Let’s do it!
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Using local.xml for overriding or updating xml structure

Using local.xml for overriding or updating xml structure

Over the past 3 years working with Magento and complying with the “Magento way” of managing code, usage of the “local.xml” file presented itself as one of the best ways to update xml layout.
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Magento Developers Paradise featuring Inchoo

Magento Developers Paradise featuring Inchoo

Hi everyone, Magento Developers Paradise is getting closer, so we pulled up this post to a frontpage again. Branko Ajzele, our project manager and senior developer is scheduled to speak at the conference in Mallorca (October 10-12). Clone Yourself: How to Effectively Share Magento Knowledge with New Developers will be the title of the session where he will share the tips and tricks on the best ways of training new developers and preparing them for the adventure that is Magento.

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Custom typography in Magento – Cufón

Custom typography in Magento – Cufón

Are you sick and tired of boring, old web-safe fonts? For some time now, there are a couple of really quality solutions for their replacement. I believe Cufón is one of the most popular. This article will help you learn how to implement it in your Magento online store.

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How to generate your own reports in Magento

How to generate your own reports in Magento

Coolest thing in Magento’s is generating your own reports.
The quickest way to create Magento’s reports is to generate them through the grids.
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How to make order shipment from code

How to make order shipment from code

As most of you know, there is an Order interface in Magento administration from where you can trigger order shipping. However, while developing certain module, you might wish to trigger this event from the code. I hope that this code snippet will help you in this process. In my case I have used this code to make shipment from cron after I got confirmation from fulfillment center
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Magento Enterprise 1.9.0.0 redirects to home page instead of 404 error page

Magento Enterprise 1.9.0.0 redirects to home page instead of 404 error page

If you have installed and working on latest Magento’s Enterprise Edition 1.9.0.0, you could find some strange behavior with 404 error page and landing page. People say there is a patch for this, but I would like to present a quick fix for those of you who need an urgent solution. Issue is that you’ll get status 200 OK for each non-existing CMS page or controller and you will be redirected to home page.
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How to add “View All” button in Magento’s pagination

How to add “View All” button in Magento’s pagination

Hi, I had a bit of unusual request from a client and I had to create “View All” button and put it into Magento’s pagination on category listings, so I decided to share the trick. ;) Read more

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How to make configurable options autoselected on Product view page

How to make configurable options autoselected on Product view page

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

Standard procedure to upgrade Magento to the newest version

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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