In order to go through all of these questions, the best place to start is obviously the beginning. There’s a lot of material to cover but I think by answering at least one of the questions a day I’ll be able to learn a whole lot about Magento. Piece by piece we’ll crack this bad…
During the development phase of the store it is necessary to put the notice so the customers can aware about that and not to place any order. You should also block your demo site for robots to crawl so that it won’t crawl your dummy content under that domain. Magento provides the setting in admin…
It is sometime really needed to show the custom block or any static block in the PHML file. Generally on the magento websites home page or any other pages uses one column layout and it is needed to show the left of right sidebar blocks like compare products, poll, cart block which are there in…
Here’s a Magento Code guide on how to inject the essential Url’s into your phtml template file. Whether trying to reference an image in your media folder or you want to include some javascript top the page. This is how its done: Code in php 1. Get Base Url : Mage::getBaseUrl(); 2. Get Skin Url…
How to display Newsletter form in Footer 1. Go to app/design/frontend/default/your_theme/layout/ open newsletter.xml you will see code block like this : … <default> <!– Mage_Newsletter –> <reference name=”left”> <block type=”newsletter/subscribe” name=”left.newsletter” template=”newsletter/subscribe.phtml”/> </reference> </default> … 2. Add following code there like this : … <default> <!– Mage_Newsletter –> <reference name=”footer”> <block type=”newsletter/subscribe” name=”footer.newsletter” template=”newsletter/subscribe.phtml”/> </reference>…
To speed up magento products imports/exports process and make database size decrease. Please run following queries of your magento database. It will truncate the unnecessary log and index tables. TRUNCATE dataflow_batch_export; TRUNCATE dataflow_batch_import; TRUNCATE log_customer; TRUNCATE log_quote; TRUNCATE log_summary; TRUNCATE log_summary_type; TRUNCATE log_url; TRUNCATE log_url_info; TRUNCATE log_visitor; TRUNCATE log_visitor_info; TRUNCATE log_visitor_online; TRUNCATE report_viewed_product_index; TRUNCATE report_compared_product_index;…
Generally on magento store we see the products list of some category on home page. To implement that, we use list.phtml file or any custom file to show any category product list on home page using following block: {{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”3″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}} This block only shows products list on home page, but it doesn’t show…
n Magento you can easily drop a static block into a CMS page or another static block. Static blocks are a great way to divide up different types of data blocks to make updating content easier. There are just two simple steps to adding a static block to a cms page. First, create your static…
Default Log files When developing your own module in Magento, it’s useful to pass variables and other messages out to a debug file so you can see how your module is working with its data. Magento comes with 2 built in log files, system.log & exception.log, both located in the var/log folder. To activate them,…
Every wonder how you can easily reference URL’s in magento? When developing your store, before going live, many of the url’s you will be using will be based on the stores testing/development url, so when you change the base url from say the development url: dev.mysite.com to the live url for example: mysite.com all your…
