Integration

Although you will be happy with Magento features, sometimes you will wish for more. Power of Wordpress? Integration with your own CRM? Something else? Following articles describe processes of integration Magento with 3rd party services.

Custom data components in Pimcore

By: Zoran Salamun, Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 | Published: Jan 10, 2017

Today I will show you how to create custom data component in Pimcore 4.4.. If you are using Pimcore, sooner or later you will end up with requirement for new form element (complex type). Data components in Pimcore are object types used for complex data modeling on object. Data component consists from data, tag Extjs scripts and one Model which is responsible for saving/loading configuration. Currently Pimcore has 19 complex data components (you can read more on https://www.pimcore.org/docs/latest/Objects/Object_Classes/Data_Types/index.html), and they will cover most requirements you will ever need. However, if (when) you’ll need a custom data component, here’s how you can create it.

Minify your CSS and JavaScript code!

By: Mladen Ristic, Last updated: Oct 11, 2019 | Published: Nov 29, 2016

If you are reading this article, you are probably somehow involved with web development. It is also most likely that you already know how search engines use page speed as one of the parameters for evaluating your site. We have couple of options on our disposal when it comes to increasing site speed. Today we will cover one of them.

Pimcore Portlets

By: Zoran Salamun, Last updated: Sep 27, 2019 | Published: May 02, 2016

After long time, we are back on Pimcore development. This time, we are working on Pimcore 4, which is in development (RC version), and we will share some guides with you. There are many changes in new Pimcore version, but most important are; improved UI, new ext-js (version 6) and under the hood code (like new Zend version, classification store, etc).

Magento Grid Serializer for Ajax Grids

By: Damir Korpar, Last updated: Aug 28, 2023 | Published: Sep 22, 2014

In Magento selectable grids, each time after a grid operation is performed (whether it’s filtering the results, pagination or something else), the selected values get lost. In other words, Magento by default keeps only values selected after the grid is initialized in the beginning and loses them each time the grid gets reloaded by Ajax call. Fortunately, Magento has a built-in library called Grid Serializer to solve this issue.

Inchoo Flickr Gallery Magento Extension

By: Srdjan Stojiljkovic, Last updated: Nov 21, 2017 | Published: May 21, 2012

Inchoo Flick Gallery is an easy-to-use Magento extension that will integrate any Flickr gallery into your Magento website. It is fully customizable using a simple Magento back-end configuration page and it uses Flickr API to get all the required information and data. Extension is tested on Magento 1.6 and 1.7 but it’s still the first version so be careful if you decide to use it on your live site.

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

By: Vanja Devcic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: 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.

How to add new custom category attribute in Magento

By: Vedran Subotic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: 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.

How to add an external javascript/css file to Magento?

By: Vedran Subotic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Feb 18, 2011

Have you ever had a need for adding external files into your Magento layout?
If you had then you know that you cannot do that from your xml layout files using methods/action:

<action method="addJs">
<action method="addCss">
or
<action method="addItem">

You could do that by hard-coding your “head.phtml” file, but then those external files will be loaded on all Magento pages.
This simple extension will provide you easy access for adding/removing external files such as JavaScript or CSS, libraries from remote servers which you cannot or don’t want to put on your server.
I called it Inchoo_Xternal extension.

Magento and Google Services Integration – All-In-One Guide

By: Toni Anicic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Oct 26, 2010

There are tutorials all around the web as well as at the Inchoo website that guide you through various Google services integration with Magento eCommerce platform. I wanted to unite all of these resources on one place and also bring something new to the table.

Magento and Google Adwords conversion tracking

By: Domagoj Potkoc, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Sep 23, 2010

If you use Google Adwords advertising for your Magento web store, you will probably need this module. This module will be very useful, because Magento doesn’t have functionality for tracking Adowrds conversion. Feel free to download module and use it on personal responsibility. I’m using this module on web store without any problems.

Our first Magento Store :: TeraFlex Suspensions

By: Tomislav Bilic, Last updated: Aug 29, 2023 | Published: Aug 22, 2008

After many weeks of work, our 1st Magento project hit the Web: TeraFlex Suspensions. As the purpose of the site in not primarily selling, but also branding and community development, we decided to use WordPress and Magento combination to accomplish the client’s goals.