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How to Grow Your Magento eCommerce Store - Important Things to Know
Your online presence is necessarily crucial in today’s modern epoch if you are expecting better business opportunities! It doesn’t matter in which trade you are, if you are offering adequate online services, you can expect great reven...
Magento Development: The Definitive Solution for Ecommerce Store
Planning to enter the digital trading world by building an e-commerce platform for your business? Well, you need to understand a few aspects related to choosing the right platform for e-commerce development!
With the introduction of ...
WordPress vs: Magento: Web Applications Comparison
WordPress vs: Magento: Applications Compared
Anyone wishing to open a business in the global network needs suitable e-commerce software to operate. There are several web applications that business owners use. Online shop owners often choose Ma...
5 Easy Steps to Install eCommerce Magento Theme Manually
In this article, I’ll share easy ways to install the Magento Theme manually. Before we start, let me first guide you through the folder structure which is required to install a new theme template.
Folder structure of Magento
Root ...
How to Create an attribute of a product through mysql setup Installer Script ?
In order to create an attribute of a product we can use our mysql setup Installer Script. In the following example we will see how can we do it.
Lets we are required to add an attribute 'Warranty Period' to the products in the group &#...
How to create simple product in magento with custom options ?
These are the steps you can follow to create simple products in magento with custom options them
1. Login to Admin menu, go to Catalog -> Manage Products.
2 In the upper-right corner of the Manage Products page,...
How to fetch the custom options and their sub options of any product?
In magento if we need to get the custom options and their sub options of any product we need to write a query and from that result we can extract the options.
Lets see how can we do it:
Firstly, load the product from the...
Different Methods addAttributeToSelect(), addAttributeToFilter() and addFieldToFilter() in Magento
addAttributeToSelect() :
addAttributeToSelect() method is used to select the attributes that we want to retrieve from the database. If we want to load all attributes then we will use addAttributeToSelect('*').
Example:...
How to display Category Dropdown in admin panel through system.xml in magento?
In magento in a module if you're required to create a admin panel tab in which you need to display Category Drop down field through system.xml file in your module, then lets see how we can do it.
1- In the etc folder of the modul...
How to fetch store name and other store details from system configuration in magento
In magento sometimes we need to get the current store details from system configuration for some reference,
Then lets see how can we do it :
1. To get all the stores from magento
for the same we can use
...
Custom code to resize any image in magento
In magento if we are required to resize the image we can do it using the resize() function of magento, but sometimes it wont work then we need to apply some custom codes.
Lets see how can we do it :
In case if we are wor...
How to setup youtube video in magento store?
If we need to add a video on our page in magento store lets see how we can do it
Follow these steps :
1. Login to the admin panel of your setup.
2. In admin panel menu go to CMS menu and click on option pag...
How to setup Like buttons of the Social networking in magento?
The social networks in these days works as a powerful tool for the advertisment or say for promoting the store content.
Like Facebook as it has like button and share button which allow users to share it on web.
To add the Facebook "Like&...
How to change the default url of any block in magento?
Suppose, we are required to change the url of any block in magento, lets see how we can change the url.
To do so we have to create a module and then re-write the url of that block path to redirect to the module. lets create a module ...
Url Rewrite Management in magento
Hello Readers,
In this blog i am going to explain "How to work with URL Rewrite management in Magento.
To accomplish this, follow the below steps:
1. Login to admin panel
2. Go to Catalog -> Rewrite Management
3. Click on...
getModel() and getResourceModel() in magento
Magento have two parts first as the model, with the Model it handles the business-logic, as Entity Attribute Value (EAV) Model, and the another Resource part, which only deals with talking to the database.
The collections in magento ...
Use of set and get methods in magento
Magento handles the setting and getting values of the fields with the set and get methods.
To understand how it handles using these methods lets see :
the set method in magento works as setter method, which sets to the value of the attributes...
How to change the admin URL path in magento
In magento the default admin url is /admin/ but for the security purpose the default url is risky as it is know by everyone. For the security purpose we need to change the admin url of the store which would be known by the store staff only.
&n...
Difference between getModel() and getData() in magento
getModel() method :
Mage::getModel() will create a new instance of an object each time even such object exists in configuration.
getModel will always return a new instance of the requested model every time.
For example:-&nb...
How to create slider of products which are recently added ?
In magento if we are required to create a simple slider of products which are recently Added for say between from previous month to the current month.
Lets see how we can create it :
1. Create a module with namespace and module.
2. Then Crea...
Difference between getSingleton() and getModel()
Mage::getSingleton() :
The getSingleton() method first checks for existence of the instance of the same class in the memory. If it finds the instance then it will return the same object from the memory. and if not than it will create...
Magento get method which loads Model, Block and Helper.
In magento the functions that is mostly responsible for the things to be done are get and set methods, which are actually same as getter and setter methods.
With the help of the get method we can actually call any model, block or helper.
&nbs...
How to create a Installer Script to perform operation on database in magento ?
In magento sometimes we need to add fields to the existing table or create a new table for our module, for this purpose we are required to write the installer script instead or performing the operation directly on database.
Lets see ...
How to create category attributes ?
In magento sometimes we are required to create category attributes programmatically in admin panel.
Lets see how we can do it:
1. Create a module with namespace and modulename.
2. Then Create a file config.xml in etc folder in our module...
How to get products list from the orders of the logged in customer?
In magento if we need to get the list of products of orders of the current logged in customer.
To do so lets see how we can do it:
first of all we need to get the logged in user id from the session for the same write the ...
How to get list of all orders of the logged in user?
Sometimes in magento we are required to get list of orders of the current logged users.
To do so lets see how we can do it:
first of all we need to get the logged in user id from the session for the same write the ...
How to load categories with their subcategories product count?
In Magento if we are required to load the Categories with their product count,
Then to do so, let see how:
First of all load the current root category for say we have default category with id: 2.
To load the root category we can wr...
How to load products between two dates ?
If we are required to load products between two dates lest between previous month to current date.
lets see how we can load them in the function loadproduct()
public function loadproduct() {
$first = date('Y-m-01',...
How to create slider of products recently edited ?
In magento if we are required to create a simple slider of products which are recently edited for say between from previous month to the current month.
Lets see how we can create it :
1. Create a module with namespace and module.
2. Then Cre...
Steps to describe how to create product and assign to category
1. In admin panel click on Catalog->Manage Products.
2. Click on Add Product button.
3. Select Attribute Set and Product Type.(Default & Simple Product)
4. In General tab fill the mendatory details like Name, Description, Short De...
How To Add Store View Selection In Magento Admin Grid?
Hello Readers,
In this tutorial, I will explain how to add Store View selection to Module’s Adminhtml
This article assumes you already know how to create Magento Admin grid.
Go to Namespace/Module/Block/Adminhtml/Module/Edit/Tab...
How to check which shopping cart rules are applied to product?
In magento if we need to check, if any shopping cart rule is applied to the product or not.
To do so we can perform it in a test file in our root folder.
lets perform the same, create a file test.php in root folder and write the below code:
...
How to change the Order total in PDF and Add our custom field in magento?
In magento sometimes we are required to apply our own custom fee charges to reflect them when we generate the PDF from invoice in admin panel.
Lets see how we can do it:
1. Create a module with namespace as Custom and module as Fee.
...
How to change the Product Price at the time of adding it to cart in Magento?
In Magento sometimes we are required to apply our own custom price on the products while adding to the cart.
To do so we can work upon the event checkout_cart_product_add_after.
Lets see how we can do it:
1. Create a module...
How to apply Custom Discount in magento
In magento sometimes we are requiered to apply our own discount on the cart total section.
To do so we can work upon the event sales_quote_collect_totals_after.
Lets see how we can do it:
1. Create a module with namespace as Custom a...
How to change any attribute value of product in magento
In magento sometimes we are required to change the attribute values of the products.
To do so we can work upon the event catalog_product_load_after.
Lets see how we can do it:
1. Create a module with namespace as Custom and module as...
Magento 1.9.2.1: How to remove product images programtically?
Magento: Remove Product Images in Magento through programming:
There is a case when we need to create our own extensions or we have to customize the module, then in that case we need to write custom code for deleting images. Following code wil...
Magento 2.0: How to add static block in a page template
In order to add static block in page (.phtml) template. Follow the steps below:
Display Static Block in Phtml file & CMS page.
In XML File:
<referenceContainer name="content">
<block class="Magento\Cms\Block\Block" name="...
Woocommerce Or Magento - What to use and when?
Magento and WooCommerce are currently the top two frameworks in use for e-commerce websites over the web. Both are backed by strong open-source communities developing plugins for various functio...
Update cart quantity not working in magento
Issue to update shopping cart quantity in magento -
To solve the issue go to your theme's cart.phtml file find the form tag then
add
<?php echo $this->getBlockHtml(\'formkey\') ?>
after start form tag like...
add 'in stock' filter in product collection in magento
Add 'in stock' filter in product collection in magento
To get product that is in stock apply the below filter to your product collection -
$productDetails = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($cat_id)->getProductCollection()...
Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually
"Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually" in Magento
Some times this error occur when you transfer the code to your server. This error mostly occur with Shared Server.
To Solve it follow the below steps - ...
Update quantity of product programattically in magento
Update quantity of product programmatically in magento
//----------update Quantity---------
$prod= Mage::getModel('cataloginventory/stock_item')->loadByProduct($productid);
$prod= $prod->getId();
$prod->setData('manage_stock', 1);
...
Delete Test Sales/Order data from Magento
To **delete the test sales/Order data from magento** run the below queries in your magento database --
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
##############################
# SALES RELATED TABLES
##############################
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_c...
Print query in magento
/----------Get products collection --------------/
<p>$allproducts = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->addAttributeToSort('name', 'ASC');;</p>
It will return you total products, sorted by name i...
Why to prefer Magento over Zen cart
As eCommerce market in India is about to grow over $24 Billion USD by the end of 2015.To grab the opportunity of this growing market there are many eCommerce stores are coming up and each facilitating new features to make the user experience gr...
Programmatically create coupon codes in Magento
Create backup for your database and project directory
2.create a form to post the coupon code information.
such as
<div class="descriptionBox">
<h2>Create New Coupons</h2>
...
