Integration

Custom data components in Pimcore

By: Zoran Salamun, Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 | Published: Jan 10, 2017
Custom data components in Pimcore

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.

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Minify your CSS and JavaScript code!

By: Mladen Ristic, Last updated: Oct 11, 2019 | Published: Nov 29, 2016
Minify your CSS and JavaScript code!

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.

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Pimcore Portlets

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

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).

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Push notifications in Magento

By: Kresimir Banovic, Last updated: Mar 22, 2016 | Published: Mar 21, 2016
Push notifications in Magento

When running a web shop there is always need to somehow keep your customers posted with the new information. It can be done in different ways, but using push notifications seems like a pretty neat and convenient way to do it. This technology has been around for some time now but unlike mobile apps, there aren’t many websites that actually utilize it. There’s probably not enough buzz about it out there and to be honest, for certain channels, the technology is not quite ready yet in terms of development. Nevertheless, let’s check it out.

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Magento Grid Serializer for Ajax Grids

By: Damir Korpar, Last updated: Sep 18, 2014 | Published: Sep 22, 2014
Ajax Admin Grids

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.

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Magento: Module testing and integration methodology

By: Nikola Stojiljkovic, Published: Nov 03, 2012
Magento: Module testing and integration methodology © jcam@sxc.hu

At the moment, Magento has dozens of module vendors with hundreds of different modules. Each of the vendors have their own methodology and coding standards that often clashes with another module from some other vendor. In order to have a stable environment, there are some steps that you could take before transferring your freshly obtained third party module to the production server.

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Run methods that are specified in module’s xml file using XPath and Varien_Object

By: Ivan Galambos, Published: Aug 24, 2012
Run methods that are specified in module’s xml file using XPath and Varien_Object

For one client last year we needed to develop some custom ERP. In documentation client specified that they want to run some methods that are “defined” in config.xml using method’s code as a id in time of exporting their orders. Shortly, depending on payment code from order they wanted to add some custom calculation when they are exporting orders. If you are interested how we implemented this keep reading!

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Track validation errors on Magento forms using Google Analytics

By: Nikola Stojiljkovic, Last updated: Dec 16, 2019 | Published: Aug 23, 2012
Track

A couple of weeks ago one of my colleagues from Inchoo wrote a very nice article about Tracking Onepage Checkout abandonment using Google Analytics. We will go a bit further now and expand the set of data that we are tracking in order to try to pinpoint the exact cause of checkout abandonment, if possible. You will also see that this code is re-usable on any form in frontend, which is something that I’m sure you will find a use for.

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Apple push notifications from Magento

By: Darko Goles, Last updated: May 30, 2012 | Published: Jun 03, 2012
Apple push notifications from Magento

For everybody not so familiar with the title, Apple Push Notification Service (in further text: APNS) is basically the service that Apple provides for their mobile devices (iPhone, iPad …) that can be integrated within mobile application in order to receive specific messages on device pointed to specific listener application.

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Inchoo Flickr Gallery Magento Extension

By: Srdjan Stojiljkovic, Last updated: Nov 21, 2017 | Published: May 21, 2012
Inchoo Flickr Gallery Magento Extension © By Wholtone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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.

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

By: Vanja Devcic, Last updated: Dec 16, 2019 | Published: Apr 13, 2012
How to implement rel=prev and rel=next to Magento’s pagination?

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.

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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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