Here, I will show you how you can get list of all categories of your Magento Shop. You might want to display all categories in homepage or any CMS page. There are different ways to get the category listing. Here are some:- Get all categories The following code will fetch all categories (both active and … Read more
Here, I will show you how you can change the default page layout in Magento. By page layout, I mean all CMS page, category page, etc. There are different ways to change the page layout in Magento. Here are some of them:- Changing individual category page layout You can modify the page layout of each … Read more
Here, I will show you how you can get list of all modules in your Magento installation. It’s a simple code. Get all modules You can find getNode() function in the class Mage_Core_Model_Config. $modules = Mage::getConfig()->getNode('modules')->children(); From the code above, you get all the modules information like whether the module is active or not, the … Read more
Here is a quick tip to change the Default welcome message that appears in header of Magento shop. When the user is not logged in, the message appears as ‘Default welcome msg!‘. To change the message text, follow steps below:- – Go to System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Design -> Header -> Welcome Text … Read more
Here, I will show you how to show the store selector (store switcher) in header. By default, the store selector is present in footer. Create a new phtml file (template/page/switch/stores-top.phtml) and write the following code in it :- <?php if(count($this->getGroups())>1): ?> <div class="language-switcher" style="margin-left:15px"> <label for="select-store"><?php echo $this->__('Select Store') ?>: </label> <select id="select-store" onchange="location.href=this.value"> <?php … Read more
Here, I will show you how you can change the location of currency selector to header in Magento. I suppose that you have already enabled/setup Multiple Currency in your Magento shop. If not then here is how to do it:- Magento: Setup multiple currency shop By default, the currency selector is displayed in the left … Read more
Here, I will show you how you can change the location of currency selector in Magento. I suppose that you have already enabled/setup Multiple Currency in your Magento shop. If not then here is how to do it:- Magento: Setup multiple currency shop By default, the currency selector is displayed in the left sidebar. Here, … Read more
Problem: I was transfering Magento files and database from one server to another. I did complete all the transfer process of files and also exported and imported the database. After that, when I tried to access the site, I got the following error:- Recoverable Error: Argument 1 passed to Mage_Core_Model_Store::setWebsite() must be an instance of … Read more
Here, I will be showing how to select, insert/add, update/edit and delete data in the Magento way. It’s about implementing the CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) concept. :) Suppose, I have a database table named ‘news‘ with the following fields:- id : int, auto increment, primary key title : varchar content : text status : … Read more