As you may know, Magento provides template path hints function to help you debug your template. However, this function is only available in front-end. Sometimes, you need to debug the template in back-end. How should you do? I have a tip to enable template path hints for magento admin. In the configuration file (config.xml) of…
As you know, Magento uses Prototype as javascript library. It provides a simple way to validate html form values. Below is an example: <form name=”my-form” id=”my-form” method=”post”> <label for=”firstname”> < ?php echo $this->__(‘First name’) ?> <span>*</span></label><br /> <input id=”firstname” name=”firstname” class=”input-text required-entry”/> <label for=”lastname”> < ?php echo $this->__(‘Last name’) ?> <span>*</span></label><br /> <input id=”lastname” name=”lastname”…
It’s a bit late already, but I wanted to make sure I put at least one thing today so we’re going to go over the next question in the Magento Certification Study Guide. Here’s the question from the guide — lets get to it! Describe Magento templates and layout files location A theme consists of…
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…
