Configuration

No, this mail is not Junk, or how to properly configure Magento mailing

By: Branko Toic, Last updated: Feb 20, 2012 | Published: Feb 09, 2012
No, this mail is not Junk, or how to properly configure Magento mailing

First of all I’m not really a Magento developer nor its power user or any sort of user for that matter. My primary function is server administration and configuration for hosted web sites, Magento included. Like any good developer you will be handling all the nifty custom code and the web site itself. However, when it comes to mailing, your application will format the mail message and forward it to the system based software to transfer your message via SMTP to its destination.

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How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

By: Vedran Subotic, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: Mar 28, 2011
How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

Sometimes you need to extend functionality of Magento categories. There is several ways to do that, I will show you how it can be done.
You can do that by modifying and adding data into some of tables directly, but it can be waste of time if you don’t know what you are doing.
This post will describe how you can add new custom category attribute in your Magento store via sql_setup script.

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Insert dynamical menu in Magento’s Admin

By: Mladen Lotar, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: Feb 24, 2011
Insert dynamical menu in Magento’s Admin

Hello everyone! I’ve recently got frustrated with Magento’s core functionality which requires XML definition for Administration menus. And I really wanted to add quick website / store links to it. Solution was to overwrite one of Magento’s Adminhtml blocks, and inject my non-XML, dynamic menu to it. If you’re interested in how I did it, read on.

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Local setup for Facebook Connect app development

By: Mladen Lotar, Last updated: Aug 21, 2019 | Published: Jan 31, 2011
Local setup for Facebook Connect app development

As you might know, if you wish to work with Facebook Connect it requires your development site to be accessible to it for security reasons. So that it can verify that you (your application) have rights to access certain information from its users. In this article, in short, I’ll show you how to make your local development machine accessible from the internet. If that’s what you need, read on!

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Programmatically change Magento’s core config data

By: Vedran Subotic, Last updated: Oct 22, 2019 | Published: Nov 28, 2010
Programmatically change Magento’s core config data

Every Magento installation has certain core configuration data already set. When you update those values from the administration interfaces, changes are saved mainly to core_config_data database table. It seems important and something that you shouldn’t touch, right? As always, there are times you will wish to get your hands on it. In some cases you will wish to chance settings directly from the code. This article demonstrates the proper way.

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HowTo – Multilingual sites and related (multilingual) graphical elements in Magento

By: Branko Ajzele, Last updated: Jul 15, 2011 | Published: Mar 17, 2010
HowTo – Multilingual sites and related (multilingual) graphical elements in Magento

One of the nicest Magento features are surely its multilingual capabilities. Store owner can easily download various language packs trough Magento Connect and have its store support multiple languages and locales. Although nice and cool, this feature can impose serious issues to web designers doing the actual design. Sometimes, more often than needed, designers use graphical elements (non-standard fonts) for navigation menu or search form or titles, etc.

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