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Sharing user session variables between Magento and Symfony

Hi, One part of our website will be built using Symfony the other Magento. I would like to know if it is possible to share user session variables between two of them. Thank you! ...

ubercart VS drupal commerce VS Magento

Drupal + UC VS http://www.drupalcommerce.org (still in dev) VS Magento anyone running all 3 and have opinions? ...

Magento products by categories

I try to get productsCollection by this code: $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCollection(); /* @var $collection Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Category_Collection */ $collection->addAttributeToSelect('url_key') ->addAttributeToSelect('name') ->addAttributeToSelect('is_anchor') ->addAttributeT...

Magentoo add slashes to file_name

I try extend an core class. But catch error: Warning: include( \\\\\\\\\\\\MyModule\Ajaxsearch\Model\Resource\Eav\Mysql4\Product\Collection \\\\\\\\\\.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream:... Why magento add slashes to addres? May be config error? ...

Magento: add product twice to cart, with different attributes!

Hello all, I have been working with this for a whole day but i cannot find any solution: I have a product (lenses), which has identical attributes, but user can choose one attribute set for one eye and another attribute set for another. On the frontend I got it ok, see it here. So the user can select attributes for left or right eye, ...

Creating a Theme for Magento

Hello. I am looking for good tutorial which shows how to create your own theme for Magento 1.4.1.0. I found some on Google, bet they was were uninformative. I am looking for tutorial which shows how to create your layout and a full theme. ...

Copy and Paste Category in Magento

Dear all, I want to copy my first category to a second category in Magento. What should I do? Thanks, Wesley. ...

magento database

Hi, i need found in magento database information about users: description , status (login or not). Where i can find this information in data base? Thanks ...

Magento how chage layout for xmlhttp request?

How change layot for xmlhttp request? For example if i need "/about" i see full page, if i request this page with ajax, magento use other layout and get for me oly needed information. ...

Magento Custom Modules (what they are and who can write them)

So everybody and their sister is now a "Magneto Expert" lol... It seems like many folks with such claims have (kind of) learned how to hack around and modify themes - and turn features in admin on and off - but do not really posses the skills to write- Magento Custom Modules. So what are Magento Custom Modules (in a physical sense)? I...

Magento Call to a member function getGrandTotal() on a non-object

Hello, i have a mutisotre setup magento and each store has its own domain . since i upgrade to magento 1.4 i am getting error in my cart page ,suppose if you add a item to cart and try to check out ,you will see unit price and subtotal is not pulling up and i am gettign following error . i dont have any idea why is this hapning .Any hel...

Magento and the <video> tag (e.g. HTML5 Video with Flash Fallback)

Is Magento somehow unique in a way that would make the (now becoming a standard) <video> tag (e.g. HTML5 Video with Flash Fallback) and its related js + swf players not perform well in a Magento site? I understand that regular html blocks can be used in Magento but I have to ask because it seems like with Magento - ya just never know. ...

Change Magento subcategory style

Hi, In my e-shop I have two root categories and four subcategories: COMPUTERS ibm apple acer asus MONITORS When printing the names of the products in the computer subcategories, I'd like to add the logo to each product title. How do I know which category each product belongs to? Which file should I edit? Thanks ...

Magento email template format date of invoice

Hi, I'm trying to apply the german format of a date to a Magento email. I can get the invoice date with {{var invoice.created_at}} but that gives me "2010-05-21 15:46:24". I would like to have 21.05.2010 and PHP doesn't work in the templates. I'm totally new to Magento so please be patient :-P Greetz Spanky ...

How to call portions of Magento into an external CMS, such as "item's in cart" or a "login form" in 1.4.

I know this is a question that has been discussed over and over, but I seem to be having trouble still. Can anyone point me to the right direction, where I can learn to pull items from Magento, and display them in my EE pages? I'll need to access magento from outside it's folder. Currently, EE is installed to the root, and Magento is i...

how to implement autosuggest feature in magento search functionality

Hi, Anyone of you implemented autocomplete functionality in magento 1.3.2 for search. or is there any free extension which will be useful for me. Please suggest me. Thanks in advance ...

What is the proper way to develop a custom theme/template for Magento 1.4

I have recently started working on an eCommerce site for a company and they have selected Magento 1.4.0 to run their store. I have spent most of my PHP "career" working with various MVC frameworks (even Zend with Magento is supposed to be based on) but the complexity of Magento seems to be on another level with no seemingly good resource...

Where to start with Magento?

I am very new to Magento and I have a few questions. Where is the best place to start when theming? Would you recommend copying the default theme: fontend/base/default and going from there? I've read that copying: frontend/default/default and renaming it is the best place to start, but that doesn't make much sense considering ther...

how to get the attribute group in magento

Hi, I need to get the attribute group of a certain attribute set , how can i do this ? i think i got the attribute group id but i can't seem to get the attributes of that group. $attributes = $_product->getAttributes(); foreach($attributes as $attribute) { $group_id = $attribute->getData('attribute_set_info/' . $_pro...

how to add a new product add page in magento admin side??

The product add page is very large..can anybody help me to create a single product adding page in the admin side... ...