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B2B open source solutions

Are there any good open source solutions for building a B2B website? I don't mean middleware, I mean something that would do for B2B what oscommerce does for B2C? ...

what is the best way to learn magento?

I'm starting a job soon where I will be dealing with PHP solutions and Magento , I have looked through the Magento wiki etc and played around with an install for it . But im still quite confused by how it works. Especially the MVC side of things (most of my PHP experience comes from working with wordpress). I would like to know if anyo...

magento login module

Hi, I am trying to use magento.The requirement is that the user should be able to login using a mobile number instead of email. can someone please let me know how this can be done? PS:i am new to magento :-) ...

Removing an Item from Magento's Admin Panel Navigation

Using the Magento Ecommerce system, is is possible to remove an item from the Admin Panel Navigation menu? More generally, is there a way to use the config override system to remove existing elements from a configuration? I know I can add to the navigation with an override that looks something like this ...

is magento overkill for a one-man webshop?

I have been looking at magento for a while and I think I have a decent handle on how to use/customize it. I have a client that wants a webshop , this is just a small business that sells a few products and just supports one language. I was wondering if using magento will be an overkill for a simple webshop , in case I cant help them to ...

Magento ORM Documentation

Outside of the source code, is there any extensive documentation on the Magento ORM? I get the basics, and can usually dig through the Mage code base, litter it with Mage::Log calls and figure out something that works, but my efficiency would go way up if I had a high level overview of how the models are intended to be used. How do the...

Magento Web Service Errors

I am implimenting a custom solution to interface with a Magento website. My code is in C#. I am trying to create products using either the v2_soap api and the xml-rpc api web services. I have attempted to create a product using both services. I cannot seem to successfully create a product. With each service I receive the error message “ ...

How to allow duplicate SKU in Magento

I have a customer who retails third party batteries, and some batteries can replace several OEM models. For instance, 3rd party SKU 12345 may replace Toshiba N23 and HP 53214, thus my customer would like to create two products with the same SKU in front end (they are essentially the same product). However, Magento by default does not a...

Magento - Change Customer Group on purchase of specific product

Hi, I am developing a purchasable video website having different videos in different categories. It needs membership functionality in which if customer purchase membership then he/she will have all videos free for one year. For that I can create a membership product and if any customer purchase this membership product he/she will fall/...

How to connect to the database in Magento?

I'm trying to build a simple Magento Module that needs to connect to the database at the start of each page request. All tables need to be accessible to it. I've been pulling my hair out trying to understand how to do it. The best I could figure out was that I need to set this in the config.xml file of my module, but exactly what that co...

Magento 1.3 - Left Hand Menu

I'm wondering does anybody have a solution to enable the left hand menu in magento 3.1. I've located the file i would like to use at design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml but am unsure how to customise my template to enable it. The tutorials i've found seem to relate to earlier versions of magento. Reg...

Magento 1.3 - Image upload issues with Flash

hey, The image upload functional within magento 1.3.0 fails for the majority of cases. We're running our magento instance on a windows server. I've tried to switch the version of the plash plugin used by the browser, with no luck. What other work arounds have people tried to get this working consistently?. Regards, P ...

Is Magento really opensource?

For the last month or two I have been trying to wrap my head around Magento, with a moderate degree of success. While it has been billed as the next great e-commerce system, I have come to realize that although it has some pretty neat features... in reality its a step backward for open source projects as far as development and community ...

Magento API: Assigning preexisting simple products to configurable products

Very left of field, but worth a shot. I've got a client database with a large range of stock items, which are being uploaded to Magento as simple products. Now I need to group them up and assign them to configurable products with their size and colour being their configurable attributes. The Magento API has a Product_Link class, with...

Change position of currency selector in Magento

Currently, the currency selector is at the top, here’s my development site: http://nordschleife.metaforix.net/118/118/index.php/kyocera.html However, I would like to switch the currency selector to just under “Price” heading of the table. I tried getCurrency() ?> but there’s nothing. I guess I need some method like getCurrencyHtml()...

Hide/show table columns with jQuery

I'm currently working on a new Magento template, and I'm facing problems with jQuery. My current code for app/design/frontend/default/blank/template/catalog/product/list.phtml is similar to follows (the page is hosted here: http://nordschleife.metaforix.net/118/118/index.php/panasonic.html) <table border="1"> <tr> <th width="178"...

Show product creation & last edit dates on Frontend in Magento

I've seen the two attributes in the MySQL database at table catalog_product_entity the fields are 'created_at' and 'updated_at' How do I get them to show up on frontend? ...

Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers

Hi, I'm trying to create a soap connection to Magento's web services, however I'm getting an error when I try and create an instance of the soap client class. I can view the wsdl file in firefox without problems and I can watch php make the request for the wsdl in apaches logs but it still fails. Nusoap can connect. $proxy = new Soa...

Unified Customer and Admin Accounts in Magento

Is there anyway to pass a customer session to the admin side and vice versa? For example... what if I want to unify some customer and admin accounts (for some very special users =) Usecase: Redirect a user from the customer dashboard to the admin dashboard via a link. Assume username and password are already synced. I've been experimen...

Where is the documentation for writing Magento Extensions?

I have looked and looked on their website, I have tried many google searches, but I can't find a link to documentation on how to write extensions for the Magneto ECommerce software. I want to write a simple payment gateway which I'm more than capable of doing if I could find basic documentation. Any ideas? ...