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Here are some methods of creating block by code in Magento. This type of code can be used directly in template, not need to create a layout file or add a child node inside already existing layout file. You can use this to echo a different type of block inside already loading block and template.

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Magento has a default option to show the overall rating’s summary of the product, which is shown in the product view page. This summary is based on all the review posted and approved for the particular product. In the summary the stars are shown accordingly, by taking the sum of all reviews and calculating the average rating. But I had a case where I needed to show those star ratings, only based on the last approved user ratings. What I did was just a small tweak in the Magento’s default working!

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In Magento, by default there is a reference place where breadcrumbs get showed, that is just above the content reference! But, sometimes you need to show the breadcrumbs twice! above and below the content. Or sometimes you just need to show the breadcrumbs inside the content, due to some designing issue! I’ve gone through these situation a lot, and thought why not post a solution in my blog?

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I’ve been working in Magento, for 1 year now! During this whole year I have learnt a lot, and have been sharing my learnings through this Blog. One of the thing that strikes me a lot is the debugging technique. My collegue ask me a lot regarding Debugging Modules Functionalities, Debugging Module’s Layout and its template not showing in frontend and backend, Some products and category attribute not showing in the frontend, Installation of Magento Custom Module and its setup not working and many more. And guess what in most of the cases I’ve developed a procedure or debugging steps, which I follow time and again, to get to the core of the situation. Actually now, I thought of writting down these debugging technique’s procedure , so that I can tell, please do the following, before you call for my help!

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One of my new colleague, today asked me how to add tabs in product view page in Magento. He told me earlier he had used his own tabs CSS and Javascript to do, but now he found out that Magento gives default Tab Javascript to do the same. Then, I thought why not share with everyone else! Here it goes…

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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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