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 »
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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 »
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 »
Attribute Mapping with Google Content in Magento
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
Including Magento blocks in a WordPress theme is straight forward, however, the internationalisation feature of both systems gets in the way. An example
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// 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 »
Getting Magento to work with BST/GMT
The problem If you run a UK based Magento store you probably already know that the store times are wrong for half of the year as the timezone switches between Read More »
Zend, Magento and WordPress – working together
I recently wanted to integrate WordPress, Magento and a bespoke Zend application to work together. For the main part, this was easy. I put the Magento installation into a seperate Read More »
Magento – Getting a custom image type in your view
Every now and then, you might end up with a custom image type in your Magento store. Maybe the initial ones don’t allow enough flexibilty or you need to show Read More »
Magento and a free shipping option for Google Checkout
When using flat rate shipping options for Google Checkout, you can include a free delivery option. However, when you click through to Google Checkout, the free option is missing. Google Read More »