Configuring Magento with development in mind
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 »
Category Archives: Development
Adding new customers to the Magento store programmatically
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
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
The advantages of using Google Event Tracking are widely documented. Usually, you add even tracking via onclick events, such as: Facebook.com Google.co.uk If you want to quickly update a set Read More »
Getting cart items from Magento
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
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
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 // File 1 – include_1.php function foo($a) 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 »
Facebook Canvas Auto Height
I was developing a canvas app on Facebook this week for a client, using the new timeline dimensions (810px wide). Annoyingly, Facebook seemed to ignore the height attribute I specified Read More »
Create a Zip File Using PHP
A few days ago, a client requested a contact form submission to go to an autoimporting email address in a specific format. At first, this wasn’t an issue – a 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 »