Problem: I transferred my Magento site files from one computer to another. I imported the database. Now, when I try to login to admin (when I go to admin login url), it shows 404 Not Found Error page. The same error is also displayed in the module’s page that are installed in site. However, the … Read more
By default, Magento contains and uses the Prototype javascript library. You can also integrate the other most popular javascript library ‘jQuery‘ in your Magento site. While integrating jQuery in Magento, you might get some javascript conflict and errors as you will be using two javascript libraries (prototype and jQuery) at a time. This is caused … Read more
Gift Message facility is present in Magento by default. You can add gift message in order as a whole or in individule order items. By default, the gift message is not enabled in Magento. Here is how you display gift message adding form in order/checkout:- 1) First of all, go to System -> Configuration -> … Read more
Magento has this cool functionality of Event Observer. Magento follows the Observer Design Pattern for its event hooking system. With this Event Observer Hook, additional functionality can be added without modifying the core code. The full list of Magento Event Observer Hooks is present over here:- Magento Event/Observer Hooks Cheat Sheet Magento has been programmed … Read more
Suppose you have a Magento shop installed. You also have another php installation in your server (may it be wordpress, joomla, drupal, or any other php code system). Now, you want to get Magento shop data in your external website which is not Magento. So, how to do this? It’s simple. You just need to … Read more
Suppose you have a multi select attribute and you have displayed it in admin grid. You have displayed the multi select attribute options as selection list. Now, you want to filter/search the grid by the multiselect attribute. The problem here is that the multiselect attribute value is store as comma separated value in database. When … Read more
Here, I will be writing about two pdf creation PHP Classes. They are FPDF and TCPDF. With these classes, you can quickly, easily and effectively generate PDF files. FPDF is smaller in size compared to TCPDF. But, in functionalities, TCPDF wins. TCPDF has lots of features and functionalities. If you want very advanced features in … Read more
As far as I see, I find phpThumb() as the best of all PHP thumbnail image generator. It has lots of thumbnail generation features. You can create thumbnail in a number of ways with phpThumb(). phpThumb() uses the GD library to create thumbnails from images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc) on the fly. Basic functionality … Read more
Here, I will be showing you how to get the top/highest rated product. The basic idea for getting the top rated products is fetching all products, looping through them, getting ratings of each product and populating a ratings array. After that sort the array and then slice the array for limiting the number of product … Read more