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Custom price filter in Magento

3rd NOV 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Frontend, Magento

Quite a few people have asked me for a price filter functionality that comes with Magento. Mostly, the questions are same: How does one put the price filter anywhere on the page? How does one set it’s on price ranges in that filter? What defines default price ranges. Is it possible to set price filter for all my products instead of just single category? Lot of questions. The answer might be simpler then you might think.

There are two ways to approach this problem. Head trough wall or stop and think approach. Read more

Show products on sale in Magento

2nd NOV 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Products, Programming

By default Magento (up to 1.1.6 version) does not have item on sale list view. If you were to open the http://demo.magentocommerce.com link and go to Furniture > Living Room you would get a grid (or a list) view of all the products inside the category Living Room as displayed on the picture below.

Filters available by default

As you can see, you have three filters available by default (Best Value, Name and Price). So what if we want to add another one here? Read more

Kapitol Reef :: Magento store with 1 product

28th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento, News, Wordpress

Can an online store have only one product? Sure it can and we give you the one that just launched. Kapitol Reef was founded to develop, perfect, manufacture and market a new breed of snorkels based upon pressure-balanced breathing in the aquatic environment. The entire focus for this company is to deliver best-of-class products, starting with the snorkel. Kapitol Reef is in the market for many years and this week they published a new site. Similar to our work on Teraflex project, we used WordPress and Magento platforms for the development.

How to add login form on home page in Magento

21st OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming

I found a interesting question on Magento forums. Some of the clients would like to see the login box on home page. Here is a quick howto. Read more

Magento MySQL database diagram

20th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Database, Magento

If you worked with osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded or any similar eCommerce platform before, you might find Magento database structure quite confusing when you see it for the first time. I advise you not to rush too much figuring out what is what by glancing through database. Try to spend first few hours getting familiar with some background. For purposes of flexibility, the Magento database heavily utilizes an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) data model. As is often the case, the cost of flexibility is complexity. Is there something in Magento that is simple from developers point of view?

Magento product view page analysis (available in PDF)

16th OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, Products

One of the most edited file in Magento is the template file View.phtml file. Reason for this is that a lot of clients would like to rearrange it differently on their online stores. Here is the analysis of that file and the list of all the methods it uses. Read more

Consuming web service via SOAP in Magento

15th OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming

Consuming Web service via SOAP in Magento is a breeze. There are few steps for you to take in order to get access to SOAP web service. For those of you new to web services and SOAP, let me elaborate few things. SOAP is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks, normally using HTTP/HTTPS. Web services is basically just a set of Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system. Magento Core API supports both SOAP and XML RPC protocols. In this example I will show you how to consume Web service using SOAP protocol. Read more

Selectively load JavaScript in Magento on some pages

13th OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming

I’m working on a project that extensively uses SIFR for making fonts look cool. However, there are some pages in Magento that we do not wont to load the SIFR’s javascript files. How do we selectively load JavaScript in Magento on some pages? Read more

Create a new Magento theme

10th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Frontend, Magento

There are many new Magento stores that are published each day. If you are with Magento for a longer time, you will also notice that many of those look similar to default or modern Magento theme. Creating an totally unique and custom one can be a difficult process, easpecially taking into consideration number of different interfaces we have. This is why many Magento developers choose to use the CSS from one of mendioned Magento themes that come with default installation and style those up. This is not a bad choice at all as it speeds up the process and those default themes are very good. But, for those of you who wish to make an extra effort, we suggest that you to take a look at Magento Blank Theme for a head start.

Making use of Magento getSingleton method

9th OCT 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, Programming

In one of my previous articles I showed you how to use getModel and getData methods in Magento. Although we should not put those to methods at the same level, since I’d say the getModel is a bit more higher. Higher in sense, you first use the geModel to create the instance of object then you use getData to retrieve the data from that instance. I have said it before, and I’m saying it again; Magento is a great peace of full OOP power of PHP. It’s architecture is something not yet widely seen in CMS solutions.

One of the architectural goodies of Magento is it’s Singleton design pattern. In short, Singleton design pattern ensures a class has only one instance. Therefore one should provide a global point of access to that single instance of a class. Read more