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Magento has given us very good features to manage Models and Collection for interacting with Database tables. Nowonder, they are very helpful in most of the cases. Yet, we may need to write custom query in some cases (if you need it quick or if you are new to Models & Collection in Magento). But by Magento’s standard this is not recommended. If you are a starter you may find this quering to database very helpful. Here is how you can do this.

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During one of my project works I came across a situation like changing the input of TINYMCE editor to image. Can you believe what can be the user’s requirement? Basically what the client needed was to change the text to image and text should be in American Typewriter Font with the option of showing text as image formatted by alignment. i.e Left Alignment, Center Alignment or Right Alignment in a white background image. Then I did some research, this is another way of saying I Googled a lot! lol. I came across two scripts, one which converted text to image and another a function to set alignment. So I thought that why not combine both the codes and publish for others, who may need it as well.

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As you may know or not ! Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce plateform, nowonder because Magento has a lots of flexibility in it. You can feel that too if you are a just a user and as for me as Programmer I just Love it. One of the salient feature that makes Magento a leader in eCommerce software is its ability to Import and Export data to an from the system.

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Ajax in Magento can be pretty troublesome.Because you will need to take controllers and layout into account.And I almost used up a whole day trying to make ajax work. Here are some of the steps I’d like to share so that you will not waste lots of your time, before making this work .
Let’s first know in Magento terms what we need.

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I was working in Magento trying to print PDF of the shipping information, with out changing the locale of the site and it was set to “Dutch”. And I came up with this word “gemailed”, I pronounced it as “G-Mailed”. Then suddenly my mind clicked with a connection G-Mailed and Gmail. So i thought it would be a good (if not better) discovery and share on my blog. Here’s the screen shot of the translation.

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