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Aug 12, 2010
No CommentsWorking with Ajax and JSON Objects in Magento [Case: Ajax Powered Login Functionality]
Previously I have written about Working With Ajax in Magento. And after a huge response I received from that post I was compelled to write more on implementing Ajax in Magento. And this time I want to say additionally about handling JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) along with Ajax, within the Magento enviornment. JSON Objects and...
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Aug 11, 2010
No CommentsDisplaying Currency code after the price value in Magento
I had a time to research on Magento’s currency format and its display on Magento webshop. I then came across a block where I could change the format of currency display, in this case I am talking about moving the currency symbol to the right of the price value. In other words I found a...
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Aug 11, 2010
No CommentsMagento: Setting Up a Default Shipping Method on Cart Page
I recently came to a situation where I need to show a shipping price amount on cart before selecting the shipping address from the checkout page. Basically shipping price is shown after the user has added the shipping address and selected the shipping method. So to show shipping price on cart page load, I needed...
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Jul 09, 2010
No CommentsWorldcup: German Coach to file a case against Spanish in FIFA
Normally, I post tech stuff in my blog, but can’t get away from football world cup fever. And my friend broke a news that German coach will file a case against Spanish, claiming that Germans should have also got the ball during the play at semis, because they were also playing the same...
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Jun 09, 2010
1 CommentMagento: Creating Ajax Updated Tabs In Frontend, Like Product Management Tabs of Backend
Magento’s Product Management GUI in back-end has Tabbed Navigation. There are two types of Tabs implemented there. One type of Tab is normal tab, loading content on page load while other type of tab has its content loaded by “Ajax”. Another interesting thing to note is that once the Ajax loaded tab’s content is loaded...
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May 13, 2010
1 CommentAnalysis & Usage of Collections in Magento
As a Magento Programmer I am fascinated by the use & simplicity of collection used in Magento. Simplicity, does not really mean being simple (it is rather complex structured) but easy to use. With the help of one of my colleague, I got down to understand how collection really represents the “collection” of data we...
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May 06, 2010
No CommentsMagento eCommerce: How To Reset All Test Order Information and Set Unique Prefix For Orders, Invoices, Shipments, and Credit Memos
Nice Post I stumbled upon.. from www.eliasinteractive.com. This is a very helpful hack Lee has posted to reset order information while moving from development stage to production stage. I’d tried this in Enterprise Edition as well and it...
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May 04, 2010
No CommentsSolution: Error Message Not Showing up in Frontend in Magento
I recently got to a situation where I needed to add a new frontend template for some module and after some action show the error or success message. Not the first time though . Interesting thing was even if I added this code in the PHTML...
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Mar 30, 2010
No CommentsRedirect to some other location from Model or Observer in Magento
Redirection in Magento’s controller is simple. You just need to call a _redirect() or _forward() function and provide appropriate router/controller/action parameter. But if you want to redirect to some other page from Model or from Observer, then this can be tricky. Lets take an example, for explaining what I am referring to, Suppose you are...
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Mar 24, 2010
1 CommentGenerating Backend-Admin URL with Key and Parameters in Magento
When you log into adminstrator part of the Magento webshop, and look into the url you may see something like...