Events & Observers

Observer pitfalls of building serious modules in Magento

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Jan 08, 2011 | Published: Apr 29, 2009
Observer pitfalls of building serious modules in Magento

Unlike good old WordPress that “every kid in the block” knows how to create a plugin for, Magento is a whole new system. It requires extensive knowledge of OOP, ORM’s, MVC, and few other stuff. This is why not “every kid in the block” can write a module for Magento, and this is why I love it. However, unlike WordPress, Drupal and other community driven systems out there who keep in mind backward compatibility things with Magento things are a bit different.

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Extending Order object and hooking on event in Magento

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Sep 27, 2019 | Published: Apr 03, 2009
Extending Order object and hooking on event in Magento

One of my previous articles was a Magento Event Hooks. This one will be a practical example on using the event hooks. Although the more proper way would be to call them Observers, bare with me. I’m use to this “hooks”.

Here’s the walk-trough on how to add a new property (attribute) to an object (Mage_Sales_Model_Order object in our case).

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