Scenario: You have set up google apps for your domain. Let the link be:- https://www.google.com/a/domain.com/ Now, you forgot the admin password. Solution: – Go to https://www.google.com/a/domain.com/ForgotAdminAccountInfo – Submit the Captcha. – The password reset instruction will be sent to the secondary email which you kept while creating the google app for your site. That’s all. … Read more
Every time you login to Magento Admin panel, by default you will always encounter a notification popup message. From a developer point of view, this popup message is very much annoying for me. I am sure, you hate it if you need to login many times to admin panel. Here is a quick and simple … Read more
Here is a quick tip to crop image to any degree of your choice in Magento. The crop function of Varien_Image does the magic :) Here goes the code: $mainImage = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'test' . DS . 'image.jpg'; $image = new Varien_Image($mainImage); // crop image // crop($top=0, $left=0, $right=0, $bottom=0) $image->crop(10, 10, 10, … Read more
Here is a quick tip to rotate image to any degree of your choice in Magento. The rotate function of Varien_Image does the magic :) Here goes the code: $mainImage = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'test' . DS . 'image.jpg'; $image = new Varien_Image($mainImage); // rotate image with the angle of your choice // rotate($angle) … Read more
I had to override adminhtml controller class (Mage_Adminhtml_System_ConfigController) with my module’s controller class (MyNamespace_MyModule_ConfigController). It was really tough to find the right solution. I googled, searched in magentocommerce forum and found a lot of solutions. But they didn’t work for me. After searching & trying more, I got some work done with the following piece … Read more
It’s very very easy to create watermark image with Magento code. The Varien_Image class does the magic. The function watermark creates watermark on the image. Here is the code: $mainImage = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'test' . DS . 'image.jpg'; $watermarkImage = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'test' . DS . 'watermark.jpg'; $image = new Varien_Image($mainImage); … Read more
I used to have google adsense in my blog but they suddenly disappeared these days. I don’t see the adsense in my blog. Instead, I see ads stating ‘Microfinance Empowers‘ in some of my adsense block. Others are empty. I googled the web and found the following cause and solution:- Problem: I used to have … Read more
In my previous article to resize image in Magento, I had written direct code to resize any image. Here, I will be writing a simple function to resize image proportionally, which can be kept in the helper file of the module (as helper file can be accessed by any template (.phtml) file). Here is the … Read more
Breadcrumbs are very useful for user navigation. Breadcrumbs for product page, category page, etc. are created by default Magento code. The following code will show breadcrumbs created by Magento. You can print the following code anywhere in php or phtml files. echo $this->getLayout()->getBlock('breadcrumbs')->toHtml(); You can create you own breadcrumbs as well. Like, you may need … Read more