February 10th, 2010
How to save the value of a specific attribute of an EAV model.
February 7th, 2010
For a long time, I've been a proponent of using single-quotes as opposed to double-quotes when assigning string literals (strings containing no variables) to a variable (eg: $var = 'string'; VS $var = "string").
January 25th, 2010
Introduction
No matter what you sell online, there are three core constituents to revenue: Traffic, Conversion Rate, and Average Order Size. In fact, it's a cubic equation: Revenue = Traffic (#) x Conversion (%) x Average Order Size ($). So if
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January 25th, 2010
We have seen dramatic increases in site traffic and better native search positioning for our clients, but we wanted to be sure that the SEO value of sites that had
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January 25th, 2010
Do you need to stand out from the crowd of competitors around you? Do you want to be remembered when your clients are deciding where to invest their hard earned resources?
Service is
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January 21st, 2010
Note: this script works on Magento CE 1.3.2.4 and 1.4.0.* but does not work in the Magento Enterprise Edition
As a Magento development company, we have a number of designers, developers, and project managers that need admin access to the sites
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January 8th, 2010
When doing frontend development with Magento, there are many times when I want to turn on template/block hints for just one page load. I don't like having to wait on the Magento admin to load up the System >
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December 30th, 2009
Over the past year and a half of developing Magento sites, our development team has created a standard set of modifications/tweaks that we make to every Magento installation.
1. Automatically turn on developer mode based on domain.
We have a stage site
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October 3rd, 2009
We recently had a client who needed to shorten the default Magento Increment ID length from the default 9 characters (eg 100000000) to 6 characters. This can be accomplished by modifying the "increment_pad_length" in the "eav_entity_type" for whatever entity you're
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August 15th, 2009
In this post we will be exploring the integration of Interapptive's ShipWorks with Magento.
ShipWorks is a Windows-only desktop application that integrates a number of different shopping
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August 2nd, 2009
Magento has a little-publicized feature called the "Global Record Search", located at the top right of every admin page. It allows you to quickly search for Products, Customers, and Orders in the system. If you need to quickly find
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July 31st, 2009
I recently came across an answer on a LinkedIn question, and I wanted to share it with you all. Roy Rubin, CEO of Varien, the company that designed and built Magento, the open-source e-commerce platform
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July 11th, 2009
Our Objective
If you need to make adjustments to the adminhtml theme files (template, layout, or skin), you have two options for accomplishing this.
Here's an example of what we would want to accomplish:
Files in
/app/design/adminhtml/default/custom_admin_theme/
need to override files in:
/app/design/adminhtml/default/default/
Likewise, files
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July 10th, 2009
Anyone that has developed a theme in Magento knows how helpful template/block hints are. They help quickly identify which files are being loaded for a specific page.
Magento's admin panel uses the exact same design pattern as the frontend (layouts
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