I am new to Magento and using their API. I need to be able to get the product url from the API call. I see that I can access the url_key and url_path, but unfortunately that's not necessarily what the URL for the product is (ie it may be category/my-product-url.html) where url_key would contain my-product-url and url_path would only co...
When using the Magento collection method addFieldToFilter is it possible to allow filtering by NULL values? I want to select all the products in a collection that have a custom attribute even if no value is assigned to the attribute. ...
Hi there, Ok my problem is that my client would like their shipping carrier 'Colissimo' to appear in the drop down box for Carrier when creating the Shipment document in Admin of magento. One of the values in the dropdown is Custom Value. Is there any way of editing this to 'Colissimo'? Regards, Fiona ...
How can I edit or add blocks on the sidebar in magento ...
Hi All On a Magento site, I’m just uploading one picture per product, and using that as the base, small and thumbnail images. However, my pictures aren’t square, so I’m getting a black background added to the thumbnail that’s created. Any ideas how to change that to a white background? I’ve searched for this but can’t find a decent a...
I'm trying to import a large number of products from a DB into Magento. The DB has many different product categories, which I've recreated within Magento. However, when importing the products via a CSV, you must list the category ID rather than the name. Is there any way to bring up a list like the following: id | category 1 | pies 2 | ...
I have come across a bizarre error in the Magento shop I'm developing and despite my inquiries online, it appears no one else has ever seen this exact error under the same circumstances. Lemme 'splain. The full text of the error message is this: Fatal error: Call to a member function getSku() on a non-object in /path/on/server/app/code...
Hiya, I am familiar with theming and using template hints in the Magento back office to locate .phtml files. What I am not really familiar with are the core files such as app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model What I need to do is override a core file like I would a core phtml file by copying it to 'my theme'. I basically want to amend som...
Hi All I'm using TinyMCE on the text-areas in my Magento admin section. I have my TinyMCE editor visible form the start, but I want the option to disable/re-enable it. I'm using the jQuery plugin version, so I added some script, which is almost working. However, it's only affecting the first instance of TinyMCE - if there are any other...
Hi, I am trying to change the wording "Special Price" and "Regular Price" in Magento. I've already tried editing the Mage_Catalogue.csv, reuploading and clearing the cache to no avail. I've also done a giant Dreamweaver search within the entire site for the text "Regular" and "Special" and haven't found anything. I can only conclude t...
I want to modify one attribute of my product automatically (code). How could i do that plz? I have seen how to show one attribute, but not how to modify. Thx ...
I would like some help on how to a block or the right sidebar displaying the new products added to the store. ...
Hi there, I'm building a Magento store and want to be able to display a list of categories and have each category link to its own page. I have a 'Brands' category with an ID of 42 and I want to display a list of the sub-categories and ensure that each one links to the designated URL key in the CMS. Has anyone had experience of doing th...
This is a very general question, but here goes: I'm trying to create a custom payment module in Magento. I've created a 'regular' module that hooks into the Magento event/observer model. But how do I tell Magento to treat a module as a payment module, so it shows up in the admin backend AND on the checkout page? ...
Hi all, I'm struggling to figure out how to display the percentage or the amount of discount that is applied to a product in Magento via the Catalog Price Rules. For example: I want the price to be displayed in the front-end as follows: [old-price] [special-price] [discount info] where [old-price] has a css strike through. The [old-pr...
I've been poking around the bowels of Magento systems code. For "regular" model resources, Magento's _construct initialization convention has been declared abstract File: Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Abstract.php abstract protected function _construct(); This makes sense, as it forces developers creating their own Model resources to call...
Hey guys, how do i add one more option to product image list? like Exclude & Remove checkboxes ...
I have an established Magento site that is only just starting to get complaints about it's performance. It's on a shared server. The internal server-side cache is also enabled. Some of the problems I have noticed are Many HTTP Requests No minification of CSS or JavaScript. No CSS sprites Shared server isn't recommended for Magento, o...
Hi all. i have an installation of Magento shop on my development server and as a payment gateway we are using PayPal Pro (PayPal Direct) which is able to accept users' credit cards. it was fine in sandbox mode, but after switching into 'live' mode and testing with $0.01 transactions, it came out that PayPal seem to accept CCs w/o check...
Hi, I've added an attribute to a customer address entity. Attribute setup code is as follows- 'entity_type_id'=>$customer_address_type_id, 'attribute_code'=>'signature_required', 'backend_type'=>'int', 'frontend_input'=>'boolean', 'frontend_label' => 'Signature required', 'is_global' => '1', 'is_visible' => '1', 'is_required' => '0', '...