I'm experiencing painfully slow operations with one of our svn repositories\projects. For example its taking 5-10mins to revert the changes in one small file (10 KB). Or about 40-60mins to check out the project of 100Mb. There is about 30 other project on the same server some vastly bigger than this one, and none of them preform like ...
I've recently started using Magento for a client's webshop, and still need to get to grips with its systems. The webshop should have several links to and also grab info from another domain, where the corporate website is located. I would prefer not to hardcode the domain name or URL but instead define it at some place and use that value...
I’m calling the Magento (1.3.1.1) API http://MAGENTO/api/v2_soap?wsdl . And I’m getting Access Denied Soap exceptions when I call the Login method. I have created a webservice user called Admin and assigned them to a role that has access to ‘ALL’. I have another instance of Magento hosted on the same server and it works fine, and I hav...
How do I add custom options to a product like you can in the backend, using the API. Im using C# but if you know how do to this in Php, that would be helpful too. I noticed that product has this: var product = new catalogProductCreateEntity(); product.options_container = "blah"; And there is this: catalogAttributeOptionEntity op...
I'm attempting to upload images to a Magento site using the SOAP API with c#. This is what I have so far, but it aint working, no exceptions are thrown or anything but when I go and look on the site the image is blank. Do I need to do the Base64Encode? I only really tried this because this php example does something similar. If I try ...
I’m uploading products via the Magento API and they are not showing up in the frontend. I have to go into the backend, open them up, change nothing, save the product and then it will appear. Any idea why? I assume the act of saving it in the back end, is saving some extra flags in the DB, I just don’t know what. ...
How i change the position of module of magento cart??? ...
I need to find a way to show the value of a custom attribute in place of the "Product Name" shown in the image below. I'm working with /app/design/frontend/default/defaultx/template/catalog/product/view/type/grouped.php The code below doesn't work(the custom attribute is yearmade): <?php if (count($_associatedProducts)): ?> <?p...
Hi everyone, recently I was needed to enhance Magento (1.3.1) user interface. Particularly add a product image switcher (following http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/create-a-color-switcher-in-magento/). The results: - image switcher works as expected, which is fine. The problem: - The product itself could hold as much as 15 or 20 col...
I'm just about to start building my first magento module but I can't find any literature on the difference between the local and community folder in core. I've noticed that some people build their modules in local and others in community, what is the difference and why should I use one or the other? Thanks ...
Hi, I am a beginner in magento, have searched for block rewriting in google and forums,but looking for a simple and understandable example or some idea on how to rewrite block for customizing the top navigation of a module.Thanks 4 the help.. ...
How i change the position of module of magento cart (top/button...left/Right)?? ...
how to change theme of magento e commerce ?? ...
does anyone know how you edit/maintain regions in magento - specifically adding ones for the uk. Thanks, Josh ...
How do I use mini login in header of magento? I'd also like the login form to be disabled after login. ...
Hi, I've created my own magento module and successfully extending core controllers and models but I'm having trouble doing the same with the layout xml files. I want to update just the checkout multishipping shipping page. So far I've only managed to to overwrite the entire checkout.xml file but I would much prefer to just have the i...
Can anyone provide a dummy guide \ code snippets on how to create a front end form in Magento that posts data to a controller action. Im trying to write a variant of the contact us from. (I know its easy to modify the contact us form, as outlined here). I'm trying to also create a feedback form with additional fields. Given this basic ...
I'm building a website, and installed Magento in the /shop/ subdirectory. I'd like to integrate the top categories into the menu of my non-Magento site, so you can navigate directly into the category. For this I need the category names and url's. Magento's categories are: Templates Color Theme General Other products I first needed...
If I have 50,000-100,000 product skus with accompanying information, including specifications and descriptions, that needs to be updated on a regular basis (at least once a day), is XML the best way to go as a data interchange format? The application is written in PHP, and I'm thinking SimpleXML to PHP's native MySQL calls (as opposed to...
Hi there, I'm having issues getting the customer.xml layout file to work properly for the customer's "my account" pages. The navigation links and the previously ordered items that are usually on the left hand side of the page won't show up on the page, but if I change the reference name to "content" in the xml file, it shows up (except...