Hi all, I am dealing with Magento for a while and i find it very interesting and probably my future choice of work tool. Though i have some troubles understanding some of the stuff going on. If i call www.store.com/catalog/product/view/id/2 then the product controller executes from the catalog core module, in it the product is being fetc...
Hello, my problem is: i have a product with simple products as childs. (maybe tshirts whith size S-XL and some colors) Now if i order one of this, it is canceled with the order-confirmation email. I think its a problem with the stock but i dont know. There are 99 items in stock of every kind and all are activated and ready to deliver....
In Magento you can override a block (or helper, or model, etc.) from one module in another one (most common from Magento Adminhtml module). Now I have the problem that I want to override a block that was already overriden by some other extension. Is there any way to tell magento to ignore the <rewrite> tag in some other module configurat...
Hi, I have set an input field of type “Image” in an admin form using the code below: <?php // Tab Form // File: app/code/local/MyCompany/Mymodule/Block/Adminhtml/Items/Edit/Tab/Form.php class MyCompany_Mymodule_Block_Adminhtml_Items_Edit_Tab_Form extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Form { protected function _prepareForm() { ...
I need to build a website for customers advertising such as craiglist. I want to build it in PHP, and I 'm willing to use an open source CMS. I'm a very big fan of Drupal, but I don't now if stands well for this kind of sites. Could anyone suggest me a suitable CMS for my domain? Best, Demian ...
I'm almost ready to use Magento (which is built upon Zend Framework, which i know) and i'm looking for a good book covering setup, config, best practices, creating templates, development, etc. Do you have any to recommend ? I found some which look insteresting : The Definitive Guide to Magento Pro Magento Developer's Guide Php Archi...
Hi All, I'm having troubles logging into Magento's admin panel on one of our staging sites (it works 100% on our webdev servers and was working just fine not too long ago on the staging server as well). I've done some research, and most people suggest that it's got to do with running Magento on a localhost and browsers not saving cooki...
Can one host multiple store on Magento Community Edition? And how to automatically create a subdomain for each new store when it's set up? ...
I'm a freshly graduated (read: inexperienced) developer who's been tasked with determining the feasibility of integrating Magento with an SAP-based backend. No developer at our company has any experience working with either SAP or Magento, so I was hoping that the Stack Overflow community may be able to point me in the right direction wi...
Both extend the features and functionality of Magento, but could anyone point me out what are the differences between them? As I wasn't able to find a clear explanation. Thank you. ...
Hi all, In my website, some products are not for sale in California. While the user checkouts, I have to do a validation like if the cart has items not for sale in California and user's shipping address is in CAlifornia, prevent user from checking out. The sale in CA is set from admin side using an 'avl' attribute. here is the code I u...
Hello, I've copied products from magento platform with 1 store to a magento platform with 2 stores. After that the product's page from one category page of 1st store redirect me to 404 Eror page. The product is shown in admin catalog, is listed with the other products in index but when I click to see the detailed product it redirect me t...
We need to represent computer systems on our Magento site. We're going to use bundled products to represent these systems. We'd like certain computer systems to have various options available (for example, mainboard, RAM, CPU, etc.). However, we want to prevent our customers from configuring the system with incompatible parts (i.e. us...
Hi All, I am having a weird situation. I worked on a magneto ecommerce website. My friends and I can see the products on the website, but only my client can't see any of them. I suspected magento cache, so I refreshed and disabled all the caches. My client still can't see all the products. I made him to clear browser cache. It didn't w...
I am working with Magento which uses the prototype javascript library. Unfortunately some of the client's data (being fed from point of sale system in to Magento) has & in the html instead of &. Can anyone help with a method to change all instances of & in the html to & for validation purposes? ...
Hi there, I'm trying to get the Order Increment Id in Magento, on the success.phtml page so that I can use this for affiliate tracking. I'm using the following code, but it is giving an error on the second line; $order = Mage::getSingleton('sales/order')->getLastOrderId(); $lastOrderId = $order->getIncrementId(); The error reads: F...
Hi, I would like a block that display slide show on left side for certain category. I got the slide show block display in all pages by referencing left column in layout file, however. We need the slide show appear only in certain category(id 225) on the left side. My solution road map so far: 1. rewrite the particular category's url t...
Hi- I am having trouble getting around this error in Magento: "Controller file was loaded but class does not exist". (Full stack at bottom) I am essentially trying to follow this tutorial: http://bit.ly/aBjuOv ...though I am using my own company/class names etc. instead of "hello world" I am having trouble finding good documentatio...
I've read the following thread in SO, Keeping testing and production server environments clean, in sync, and consistent, and I still have some doubts in what is the best way to do it. "You should do modifications to your test environment and replicate it to your production server". Problem is I'm using Magento installation: I have diffe...
I am trying to figure out how to get an attribute code from a filter list in Magento. <?php $_filters = $this->getFilters(); foreach ($_filters as $_filter) { echo $this->__($_filter->getName()); echo $this->__($_filter->getAttributeCode()); # color_name } ?> getAttributeCode() isnt a method. I want to specify a CSS classname ...