External Magento scripts – how to load Magento
I’ve added a few scripts on my blog, and also over at Branded3 Labs previously, but I’ve not noted how I load them currently. I’ve dabbled with adding scripts to Read More »
Author Archives: Douglas Radburn
Magento behind an SSL terminated load balancer
If you’re using a load balancer infront of your web servers and providing a Magento site, you might notice that you have issues if your SSL terminates on the load Read More »
A 404 Manager for Magento
When you launch a new website, or you update an existing one, staying one step ahead of Google is always an advantage. One issue you might have is an increased Read More »
Redirecting a user after user registration in Magento
You might be looking to redirect a customer to another URL rather than either the shop homepage or the customer account page. In order to do this, you can set Read More »
Remove button text from input in ie7
Came across something that stumped me a little today – for some reason, IE7 wasn’t hiding the text on a submit button when I thought it should be. I was Read More »
A look into Magento 2
Magento 2 is the future of the Magento platform. It will sit on PHP 5.3 and is being built with version 1 of Zend Framework – as Magento 1. Word Read More »
Magento Product Collection
Many a time I have seen code where coders are doing all the product manipulation and work within PHP and not letting Magento do the work. Now, there is a Read More »
Adding a category attribute to Magento
Not sure why it took so long to figure out, but adding a YES/NO attribute to categories actually turned out to be pretty easy. I wanted a quick way to Read More »
A WordPress Twitter stream, without the RSS…
Recently, Twitter made some changes and dropped support for RSS (as well as imposing plenty of other measures and limitations along the way). You can read about it here – Read More »
Selecting a single, random product from a collection in Magento
I was recently working on a site where a “featured” product was required on the homepage. Rather than just making this a category, or a specific product, I wanted to Read More »
Programmatically removing product images in Magento
From time to time you might want to remove images from a large amound of products in Magento. I had this exact situation recently trying to help someone in the Read More »
Clearing Magento re-writes
From time to time, Magento really screws up. You might find that suddenly, all your products 404, or category pages go missing. Sometimes, a quick re-index works out the issue. Read More »