Associate Magento products to a specific store
Recently, I needed to associate a large number of products with a specific “store” in Magento. Rather than go through each product individually, I thought it might be quicker to Read More »
Category Archives: Magento
Adding Breadcrumbs to Customer Account Pages using Magento
Breadcrumbs are a great way to navigate through any ecommerce site. Magento’s default theme has breadcrumbs (with microformats!) on product and category pages. This means that there is little work Read More »
Using a cron to set catalog price rules
Sometimes you might want to update your catalog price rules at different times of the day, to make sure they’re applied. So, lets look at a script we can schedule Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »