Hi I am new for Magento and don't much knowledge of programing what i want to do is i heve three categories on my site and created three static blocks for it and set it up on middle of each category page with their related block all working fine but now i want to move it in Right Sidebar in My site so pls. suggest how and where do i chan...
I am going to develop a B2B e-commerce site which contains 5 million products and all products will update from distributor daily.I am confusing which open source i have to use I tried magento but it importing very slowly.I am ready to spent money for highly configured server. ...
I'm looking to save some data in the Magento database without hassling with creating a new EAV object (or even a DB table if I can avoid it). Is there any place that you all know about that Magento will let you store serialized data? If it matters, the data is a serialized set of SKUs that I need to retrieve. I know that I could create ...
Is there a proper way in Magento (or failing that, any way) to specify that an extension depends on a specific version of another module? A normal dependency section looks something like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <Company_Module> <active>true</active> <codePool>local</codePool> ...
Hi, I’m just learning Magento and its Web Services API for a new job. I’ve just managed to build some basic PHP scripts fetching products in specific categories. I now need to fetch the best-selling products, but am struggling to find good documentation on this. Any help, pointers, sample code or anything else really would be much appre...
I added a couple new attribute to my products(a boolean "yes/no" fields). They are variables to enable/disable the price from displaying on the product detail page, and grid view. I managed to get it work on the product info page. But on product grid page I cant seem to access those variable. Specifically, the template i am working with...
Hello Magento boffins. I am using Magento to build an eBooks site. For the release, we plan to have a number of free downloadable books. We were hoping that it would be possible to use the normal Magento 'catalog' functionality to add categories with products underneath. However, since these are free downloadable products, it doesn't re...
I am looking to clean up the file that we store in source control (SVN) for the Magento projects we are working on. Which files/folder are have no purpose being in SVN, ie the ones are not necessary for the site to function, or are only transient? So far I have identified var\cache var\session media\temp var\locks downloader...
Setting a Magento store for a winery. They well bottles of wine, but you can only order bottles in cases of wine. There are 12 bottles of wine in a case, and you can make a custom case. So user could pick 4 Chardonnay, 6 Merlot and 2 Shiraz to make a case of 12. But they could not just choose 4 Chardonnay and 6 Merlot. Orders have to b...
I have to add Register link in the top menu links So i did this, but i dont know whats the helper for register. Please help me <customer_logged_in> <reference name="top.links"> <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>Log Out</label><url helper="customer/getLogoutUrl"/><title>Log ...
Hi, I started working with Magento this week and I'm trying to create a new theme. Following the "Designing for Magento" article of the wiki, I tried to remove the Popular Tags block from the index view, adding this line to local.xml on magento\app\design\frontend\default\mytheme\layout: <remove name="tags_popular"/> I don't why, but ...
I am running a store on Magento. For some reason the "Recently Viewed", "Related Items" and "Featured Items" blocks have all disappeared from my site. They where definitely there yesterday so I'm not sure what's happened to them. Featured Products is an extension I use and show on the home page using: {{block type="featuredproducts/l...
I try to install new magento version 1.4.xx . But after the config menu I meet after I copy and change local.example.xml to local.xml . Error in file: "E:\Soft\Programming\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\sql\catalog_setup\mysql4-install-1.4.0.0.0.php" - SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entr...
I want to set the cron job in the config file of the Catalog module to be ran at a different time. Currently it is setup like this in the config.xml <crontab> <jobs> <catalog_product_index_price_reindex_all> <schedule><cron_expr>0 2 * * *</cron_expr></schedule> <run><model>catalog/pro...
I'm currently using the magento admin interface, trying to upload an image in the "manage products" and I get the error "file was not uploaded" after I browse the file and click "upload file". I've looked on other forums and the main solution I saw were to make sure that php.ini has the following lines... magic_quotes_gpc = off short_o...
Hi folks. I have a Magento helper class I wrote that works wonderfully in 1.3. However, we're working on a new install of 1.4 and filtering by category won't work for some reason. function __construct() { Mage::app(); $this->model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product'); $this->collection = $this->model->getCollection(); $this->...
when i made https enabled in secure url and front end secure url usage to yes in magento the checkout page becomes not found. Should i need to do anything more? where i have to place my ssl certificates. please help me in this ...
For while now I have been using ezpublish as a framework, and CMS when my web projects are based on PHP, and I must say, I have grown accustomed to it because of its flexibility for most scenarios. However, I've had to build e-commerce sites now and then, and ezpublish includes a webshop that caters for the e-commerce needs of your inst...
Is there a way to import product attributes, their values and at the same time assign them to attribute sets? I have ~30 attributes and hundreds of attribute values (CSV) and creating these by manually would take forever. Any pointers or suggestions would really be appreciated. ...
Hi, I am new to paypal and magento. I have a buiness account created on paypal and have a magento installation Now I need to integrate the paypal account on to this magento. How do i do this exactly. I tried to go through tutorials but no soap. Can some kindly help me out here with the process. Thanks in advance Alloi ...