Douglas Radburn, Author at Magento Consultancy & Development, York & Leeds, North Yorkshire

Google Rich Snippets / Microformats with Magento

Douglas Radburn | August 13, 2012

Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) have been around for a while. The few lines of text that appear under every search result in Google are designed to give users Read More »

Configuring Magento with development in mind

Douglas Radburn | August 10, 2012

Magento is a very powerful system, but sometimes it can be a pain to develop for. You’ll find that sometimes your theme over-rides the default functionality, but sometimes a plugin Read More »

Adding new customers to the Magento store programmatically

Douglas Radburn | August 8, 2012

From time to time, you might want to add customers to your Magento store via a script, rather than by hand. This can be especially useful if you’re migrating from Read More »

Attribute Mapping for existing products in Magento

Douglas Radburn | June 26, 2012

Sometimes we need to add new attributes to a Magento store. Sometimes that store is new and hasn’t been populated, sometimes it’s got 20,000 products in it. I recently wrote Read More »

Cleaning up Google Event Tracking with jQuery

Douglas Radburn | June 18, 2012

The advantages of using Google Event Tracking are widely documented. Usually, you add even tracking via onclick events, such as:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'External', 'Click', 'facebook.com']);">Facebook.com</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'External', 'Click', 'google.co.uk']);">Google.co.uk</a>

1 2	<a href="http://www.facebook.com/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'External', 'Click', 'facebook.com']);">Facebook.com</a> <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'External', 'Click', 'google.co.uk']);">Google.co.uk</a>

If you want to quickly update a set of Read More »

Getting cart items from Magento

Douglas Radburn | June 13, 2012

I recently worked on a Magento site that included AJAX basket functionality. When the site went live, the majority of the products were “simple” and the functionality worked well. Recently, Read More »

The Magento Registry

Douglas Radburn | May 25, 2012

The Magento registry allows you to share information anywhere in your Magento application as if they are static function. Magento’s registry acts a lot like Zend’s, and basically allows the Read More »

Attribute Mapping with Google Content in Magento

Douglas Radburn | May 16, 2012

I’ve worked on a few Magento builds recently where the client has requested Google Merchant Centre integration. We’ve used some third party tools previously to create feed files that we Read More »

Including Magento blocks in a WordPress theme

Douglas Radburn | May 8, 2012

Including Magento blocks in a WordPress theme is straight forward, however, the internationalisation feature of both systems gets in the way. An example

// File 1 - include_1.php
function foo($a) {
  return $a*2;
}

// File 2 - include_2.php
function foo($b) {
  return $b+9;
}

// File 3 - index.php
include "include_1.php";
include "include_2.php";

// File 1 - include_1.php

function foo($a) {

return $a*2;

}

// File 2 - include_2.php

function foo($b) {

return $b+9;

}

// File 3 - index.php

include "include_1.php";

include "include_2.php";

File 3 would throw: Fatal error: Read More »

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