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Creating Collection of Objects in Magento using a "Magical Class":Varien_Data_Collection
Have you ever wondered how Collection in Magento are built, containing array of individual Entity Objects of Magento? Collections are one of the most important data structure (if I am right) used in Magento. Most of the queries in Magento will...
Getting Ordered Items and their Detail from Order ID in Magento
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...
Create and Download XLS Report file using Magento's Core
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...
Debugging Magento Using Eclipse PDT & Zend Debugger
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...
Getting Customer's Info Using Single Query Including Billing and Shipping Addresses
Query in Magento can be quite troublesome, if you are a starter..or non-starter. So I’ve tried to share some of the difficult queries using collection in Magento, so that it will be helpful to my blog readers and also a place where I can...
Getting Configurable Attributes (Super Attributes) of a Configurable Product
In one of those time when you need to know what attributes of a product is used to make the current configurable product “configurable”, then here it goes Those configurable attributes are called as “Super Attributes”....
Creating Custom Sourced Multiselect Product Attribute
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...
Using Custom Table for Custom Module in Magento
If you want to create a custom module in Magento that has something to do with storing data into a custom table and using that later, then this is just the right post you have bumped into! I will presume that you already know about Models in...
Getting Rescent Rating Summary of a product in Magento
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...