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Print message in all languages using single store, date on specified localization

By: Ivan Galambos, Jul 25, 2012

Did you maybe try to print one message in “all” languages on a single page?

First, let me tell you when I needed to do that. Recently I needed to develop functionality that will send some “custom” emails. You already know that we can set transactional emails for each website / store view and have those emails translated in administration/db. Challenge in my case was that I needed to translate some “random” sentences in one transactional email so using predefined email template wasn’t possible. Sure that we can inject variables and/or objects into email templates, but that didn’t help in my case.

If you have installed any version of Magento community edition >= 1.4.2.0 we can start with our translate module.

How to implement rel=prev and rel=next to Magento’s pagination?

By: Vanja Devcic, Apr 13, 2012

As most of you know that “When dealing with online stores with a lot of products, pagination on category pages can get really problematic for search engines” like Toni Anicic wrote in his article. I don’t want to repeat his words, but to show you how you can add rel=”prev” and rel=”next” link tag attributes in the head tag for pages, which will boost your SEO. This peace of code is already provided by Magento community, but this is improved version.

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

By: Branko Toic, Feb 09, 2012

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.

Selective attribute sorting

By: Ivica Tadic, Oct 20, 2011

When you have a large scale Magento store with thousands of products in every top-level category, dozens or even hundreds of offered filters for a single attribute in your layered navigation, certain necessities become mandatory – like selective attribute sorting.

Guide through Magento’s timezones

By: Mladen Lotar, May 30, 2011

I’ll guide you through Magento’s timezone behavior, as I’ve noticed that people tend to get confused in cases when they have 2 or more websites with different timezones. If this is what you are searching for, read on!

How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

By: Vedran Subotic, Mar 28, 2011

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.

Insert dynamical menu in Magento’s Admin

By: Mladen Lotar, Feb 24, 2011

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.

Advanced layout updates for categories and products in Magento

By: Vedran Subotic, Feb 24, 2011

Recently I had a task to modify sorting in only one category of Magento shop.
What I had to do is “only” to change which attribute will be used for default sorting and I needed to reverse ordering from ascending to descending.
Task seems simple, right?

Configurable product modification in Magento

By: Mladen Lotar, Feb 22, 2011

In this article, I’ll give you extension that will change drop down selection (select field) to radio buttons on configurable products in Magento Community edition.

Create configuration for your Magento extension

By: Mladen Lotar, Feb 15, 2011

Today I’m going to give you and quick HOW-TO for beginners on how to create simple configuration for your extension inside Magento’s configuration section.
If you’re interested, read on:

Local setup for Facebook Connect app development

By: Mladen Lotar, Jan 31, 2011

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!

Programmatically change Magento’s core config data

By: Vedran Subotic, Nov 28, 2010

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.

How to set multiple websites with multiple store views in Magento

By: Tomas Novoselic, Apr 19, 2010

If you work with Magento, sooner or later you will end up needing multiple websites that have
multiple languages.
Most of you know this, but I hope someone will still find this post useful.

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

By: Branko Ajzele, Mar 17, 2010

Configuration

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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