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Are all of the default scripts loaded by Magento really needed?

Here's a listing of all the scripts loaded by Magento by default: ../js/prototype/prototype.js //prototype library ../js/prototype/validation.js //don't know what this does ../js/scriptaculous/builder.js //don't know what this does ../js/scriptaculous/effects.js //base scriptaculous effects library? ../js/scriptaculous/dragdrop.j...

change default grid columns in Magento catalogue

There are so many methods out there and it's a bit confusing but what's the best way to change the default grid columns in the Magento 1.4 product catalog? Thanks ...

Magento: server requirements for a quite big shop to run smoothly

Hi, I'm working on a quite big magento: it will have 50 different shops (1 magento install, 1 admin to rule them all) for start, this number is expected to raise in the future, and a catalog of more than 1k products. This catalog will be shared by all shops. I'm concerned about the server requirements I need for this to run smoothly. S...

Cookies ignored on Apache/Magento installation

I'm running a Magento based website store on Linux/Apache. In order that user logins are maintained, I've set my cookie lifetime to be close to two years. The cookies are sent out with the right times, I can see them in my browsers. When I visit the site from a previously logged-in browser after about a day, the user is logged out. ...

magento using join in grid.php prepareCollection

Can someone tell me how to make a join within magento Here is the problem: getCollection(); $collection->getSelect()->join(array('faqcat' => $this->getTable('faqcat/faqcat')), 'faqcat.faqcat_id=faq.faqcat_id' , array('faqcat.*')); ?> i am trying to make a join with the table faqcat where i use the key faqcat_id . futher i want that f...

Remove CA from before the $ in magento

I am working on a magento site for Canada and so there is currently a CA$ before any price and we would like it just to appear as $. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to alter this without going through all of the code and doing it individually? ...

Magento: How do I retrieve values from fields submitted with the payment method?

Ok. This is getting a little frustrating. I am trying to create a custom payment module for Magento. The purpose is to use Authorize.net's CIM so that we don't have to worry so much about PCI compliance. The issue I am having is that the users need to be able to access their previous credit cards and use those for purchasing. I have...

add dropdowns to magento

I would like to add dropdowns to the top navigation on a magento site, would this involve a plugin or is there built in functunality that could potentially do this already? ...

Magento resource model for table with compound primary key

I am creating a custom module for a Magento ecommerce site, and the module will center around a new (ie, custom) table that has a compound/composite primary key, or rather the table has two columns that make up the primary key. Does anybody know how to create your models/resource models based on a table with a compound key? To give a f...

Magento: Attribute always returns default value in catalog view, works fine in product view

I've created a new Yes/No attribute for products. I've extended the Product model to do some custom logic and the custom functions are working everywhere. When I initially tried getting the custom attribute value, I ran into some issue. Magento wasn't loading it for me, so calls to $product->getMyAttributeName() did nothing. In the p...

Show Category Image with Link in Magento

On my Magento homepage, I'd like to include a link to a few categories, along with their respective Category images. Obviously, I could manually link to the images, but it seems like it would only make sense there is a way to automatically pull the Category image along with the link. Help? ...

Magento versus Drupal/Ubercart

Hello, Can anyone tell me what is the best e-commerce solution between these two products. Has anyone has made a study and compare their own functionnalities ? thank you for your answer. Regards. ...

magento osl license allowances

Hi, Im interested in providing part of magento ecommerce as a SAAS solution. However, it would be great to get some clarity around the osl license. I realise that distributing that actual software requires me to open the source. However, in a SAAS environment, surely I can charge for the software service? As long as I release all chang...

Magento hiding all errors page.

Magento Production version 1.2.1 store running on linux centos. I want to hide all error messages generating from Magento, or if error occurred then I want user to send to custom error page. I tried some solutions like putting Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true); in index.php but it is not working properly, I even tried to set ini_set('d...

magento setup problem.

when i started to configure magento and click next to create the admin then apache is shut down. I am using xampp as my local setup. ...

change default selected country and province in Magento

I need to have either the only country viewed or the default country to be Canada and more specifically british columbia when choosing an address in magneto. What would be needed to make this change? ...

PHP Extension "curl" must be loaded

Hi, I am very new to magento and currently I am getting "PHP Extension curl must be loaded" error during magento installation. Can you help me? ...

Magento - how to create different prices for different sizes of a products?

Hi, I am trying to set different prices for different sizes of a few products I have in my store. I am not really sure how to do that propely. The problem is that I already have the regular size defined as a simple product. Now, I want to add a smaller size as well, that can be chosen from the same product page, and I need to set the w...

Magento Layout.xml <remove ...> tag not having desired effect

I have a "auth-redirect" module that is in the beginning of all my page layout files (1column, 2column, etc). This works to make sure that before rendering any page, if the user is not authenticated properly then it redirects to a login page. The way that I allow the login page to render is in my customer.xml file I declare the followin...

Magento : How do i echo username

Hello I use the modern theme I have a livechat button on the header and i want to parse informations in my template This is the livechat button : <!-- http://www.LiveZilla.net Chat Button Link Code --><a href="[removed]void(window.open('http://xxxxxx.fr/livezilla.php?code=BOUTIQUE&amp;amp;en=&lt;!!CUSTOMER NAME!!>&amp;ee=<!!!CUSTOMER...