I’ve previously posted http://subesh.com.np/2010/01/debugging-magento-eclipse-pdt-zend-debugger but currently I think it was just a snub. What I currently do now is far more better approach then the previous one. Here is how you can set...

I’ve already mentioned about custom query in Magento, before but now I think its time to upgrade that method to next level because it would always be good to have standard code for reference.So it is just a new improved way of using a...

Magento has its own way of generating increment ID for new invoices and new orders after they are saved. But how about knowing them before hand, i.e before the invoice or the order is created! Lets first understand the working of those increment...

Sometimes in Magento, while creating a custom module we need to add our custom Javascript code in our Admin form. These Admin forms we create are extened from the Magento’s core form widget. So there is a less flexibiliy of adding a custom...

At the first instance I thought WTH! must be pretty simple, add params in XML layout and “Voila!“. But later I found that it was not simpler as I thought. I had to get into the addLink method for sometime (1/2hr) and finally I came...

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...

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...

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...

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”....

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...

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...

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 file. <?php...

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,...

When you log into adminstrator part of the Magento webshop, and look into the url you may see something like this. The part in “RED” are module controller(router)/action. And the part in “GREEN” is what we call as “Paramerters”...

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...

Today, while writing a code for AJAX file uploader, I was trying to do with [wiki]SALAJAX[/wiki]. But, with SALAJAX I could not manage to send the headers for $_FILES. So I thought of an alternative. And the alternative was to load the action...

I wanted to show different categories of information on one GMarker. That is I wanted to show different types of information on a Infowindow for a point on Google Maps. For that I used a tabbed info window, which helped me to show different...

At last I found hostip.info provides a service for getting the latitude and longitude of a place on the basis of the user’s ip address. Its light weight and free, rather than downloading bulky database and getting paid services, for getting...

I have already posted similar post for finding out the latitude and longitude of a place using Google maps, but when I studied the traffic details and found out that when people visit that post, they sometime come with keywords like zipcode+latitude...

I was so frustrated during one project where I need to find out the geological latitude and longitude of the place, with the help of Google Maps. So I googled a lot and came up with a function function (overlay,point).On calling this function...

To get a simple Google Map for you website its, pretty easy actually. Just go to http://maps.google.com/maps/api_signup and input the necessary details then you will get a sample code for a simple google map. The Sample code is just like this. <!DOCTYPE...

Magento’s Dataflow (Inport/Export) is one of distinguishing feature that makes Magento the leader in eCommerce Software. But for a programmer to understand how it workes in Magento can be quite nasty. I tried to understand how it workes...

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...

Sometimes in Magento, while creating a custom module we need to add our custom Javascript code in our Admin form. These Admin forms we create are extened from the Magento’s core form widget. So there is a less flexibiliy of adding a custom...

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...

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”....

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 file. <?php...

When you log into adminstrator part of the Magento webshop, and look into the url you may see something like this. The part in “RED” are module controller(router)/action. And the part in “GREEN” is what we call as “Paramerters”...

I’ve always wanted to contribute something in Magento Community and I think today the day has arrived. The module is named as Sirius Blog Helper, just a name, Who cares about the “Name” unless it works . The basic function...

I’ve already made a post in this blog about Adding Related Product and other links to Product in Magento . But when I used the method to creating links among product’s, while importing very large number of products and creating large...

Here is a small snippet of code, yet useful, to get ordered items and its details. I’ve deviced this code a lot before and posted in Magento Commerce’s Forum as well. But felt like writting it again, so that I can have a quick refrence...

Reporting can be a very important part of the Module you might be developing for Mageneto. If you are showing your data in Grid that’s good, but it will be better if you add XLS file generation action on that grid, so that the site administrator...

Latest Post on Debugging Magento: Debugging Magento Using Eclipse on Ubuntu I had always thought of using Eclipse to debug Magento’s complex code flow, and tried number of times before. But without any success I had to abandon it, and...

Creating Multiselect type of product attribute whose source will be the Magento’s core tables is pretty simple. Just go to Manage Attributes and create a new one. But if you want the attribute’s source table be a custom table, then...

Adding custom option in Magento is pretty easy! You just need to know the format of an array, which is taken by catalog/product_option Model to set the custom option. I’ve deviced a simple function (setCustomOption) that just does that....

Custom options are the options that can be added to any product, which gives an option for the user of the site to select what type of product they actually want. Here is a scenario where custom option can be helpful. If you have a product say...

Handling Products image in Magento is quite easy to do. Magento has deviced as very good class and function to create product’s image by defining widht and height and in addition it caches that image created if you want to get the same...