Ecommerce developers with Magento

One of the most requested feature in Magento is the ability to have a featured products. Those of you who used osCommerce, ZenCart or some other shopping cart solution are already familiar with the way it works. You can choose the products that are featured and those will be displayed on some home page box and in separate interface. Some of you might know that we already have a post on the site that speaks about adding featured products to the homepage, but we prepared something better. A free extension: Featured Products by Inchoo.

Most of you probably know this, but here’s a little code snippet for every Magento beginner that needs page with products on sale listing.
So, easiest way to accomplish that is to follow these steps…

Category toolbar has many options. By default is shows how many items are in the category, you can choose how many products you wish to be displayed per page, you can change the listing type (List or Grid) and you may choose Sort Order. This “Sort Order” can be confusing. The default “Sort Order” is “Best Value”. What does it mean? How is the Best value determined? Can we change the default sort order?

Just at the dawn of 2008, Varien launched a new version of Magento: 1.2. Upgrading previous Magento versions was sometimes not an easy task since Varien used to change standard function names which caused themes to break. We backup the site, made a copy, took a deep breath, expected the worse, and… Nothing The upgrade went smoothly. Wow, that felt good.

One of my recent articles was on the subject of sorting “On Sale” product in Magento. The following is a cleaner and more advanced look at how—with few tricks and smart moves—you can reuse existing Magento code and modify it to suit your needs.

Bestseller or best selling product is one of the features people tend to ask for when it comes to Magento™.

There are multiple ways to implement this feature.

In this example, I’m not using controller or model directories at all; I’m going to show you how to implement this feature using only one file: the View.