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Magento Performance Tuning

I have a server which is running more than 15 Magento stores, but they are not performing well, though I have a giant server for hosting them. My server configuration is - 8 CPU's Quad Core 24GB RAM and 2 TB HDD. My current page load is 1.6sec. I want it under 600ms. I have already installed APC, & eAccelerator and tuned Apache's parame...

Can Subccategories be included in the menus directly?

Hi I just want to know that how can i add Subccategories in the Navigation menus without making the parent category to show up there Any Ideas??? thanks in advance ...

Magento Products Ordered Report

Hi! I'm struggling with the Magento report for "Products Ordered". Is the Ordered Quantity affected by the date filter? Why do some of the products show as 0? Where does Magento keep the ordered_qty data? I am using Magento 1.4.0.1. Thanks for any clue! Regards, I. Pascual ...

Display Price Once on Magento Product Page

Hello, I want to show the product price only once on the Magento product page. Currently, it is displayed twice. I tried to change app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/price.phtml, but didn't get it. I also tried app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/view.phtml, but when I edited price.phtml the price i...

i install Magik_Featuredproducts component in magento after install i can't access my front view ?

i install Magik_Featuredproducts component via magento connect after install component i can access backend but cant access frontend and following error comes:- Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php on line 529. how to solve this error?...hope s...

how to add more simple products into configurable products using magento API

How can I simply add new simple products incrementally to configurable products? or do I still need to retrieve the 2 original arrays of the pre-defined configurable product (getConfigurableAttributesData and getConfigurableProductsData) first, append the new arrays and set them again? Is it worked for my case just as the first-time cr...

Magento search is not working

On my site www.refurbishedprinters.co, I got this error Minimum Search query length is 1 The advanced search is giving me this error You have to specify at least one search term Please help! it was working a few days ago. ...

magento checkout: change shipping price

Scenario: Change shipping price using variable parsed by design during checkout. I need to change the final shipping price using some variables sent by phtml checkout. Eg. Shipping method 1: cost 33$ Shipping method 2: cost 23$ Shipping method 3: cost 10$ special packaging checkbox (y/n) + 10$ (set it as yes for this example) ...

Changing Design For All Module Pages In Magento

I'm doing a custom module in Magento and everything is going swimmingly... except I want to change the base layout template that all pages in the module use. I've done some googling with little success. Anyone have any answers? I want to do something along the lines of: ... <optionbox> <reference name="root"> <action method="se...

Customize Magento template

I've installed some theme, which has header logo defined in header.phtml like this: <img src="<?php echo $this->getLogoSrc() ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->getLogoAlt() ?>" /> I don't really want to alter this template, also in that .phtml file it says not to edit it. How can I override this getLogoSrc most efficiently? ...

Magento get a list of products that are not related to any category

I was able to make an ordered list of categories with child products, now i need to add a list of products that are not related to any category ...

Magento: fetch value of "disable module output"

The Magento backend allows you to disable module output per site. I've done some Google searches but can't figure out how to grab this value through my code. Basically when my module's output is disabled that works just fine. But I've discovered (the hard way) that Magento doesn't prevent the module from loading per-site. Because I'm...

How to change database connection on the fly for PhpUnit tests.

I am working on a Magento 1.4.1 project, and I want to use PhpUnit to test my models. I am able to run my PhpUnit test using the default connection, but I want to use a different database connection than the one I use to test the interface. What I would like to know (if its possible): Is there a way to select a different connection f...

How do I edit the actual content of this typo3 plugin object?

I've inherited a site using typo3 and I don't have that much experience with it. I have a page with a left column in the layout. In that left column is an object using an "insert" plugin. On the actual page is a graphic map. I'm just wondering how to edit the actual content that this is referring to. Here is a screenshot: Here it...

Which file should I edit to change the breadcrumbs starting point?

I wanted to change the breadcrumbs starting point from Home to My title. I edited the file /magento/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Breadcrumbs.php but it doesn't seem to be working. Is XML playing a role in that? thanks ...

How to add custom Modules in magento

Hi I want to create a custom Module for Footer which shows the news Headlines.Havent played with custom modules yet.How can i do that.can anyone tell me simple steps to craeate a custom module. Thanks ...

magento non object in search

hi everyone, i am getting an error during search ,i want to load the details from the products but i am getting an error with an certain category and i am getting back this error: Fatal error: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object in /home/xxxxxx/home/xxxxxxx/www/test/app/design/frontend/default/blank/template/catalog/pro...

Why does this Prototype Code in Magento crash?

For the last hour and a half I've trace Javascript calls in a Magento shop I'm building, because I have the strange effect that, when checking out, I can not leave page 2 (shipping address) of the onepage checkout, unless I switch from "send to this address" to "send to another address". I've traced it down to this piece of javascript...

SEO for a Magento multilingual store

I’m trying to build a multilingual website (french and english) with proper SEO I’m using Magento 1.4.1.1 with the sample data & the default theme I’m testing locally (MAMP) on the domain : magento.dev (without the www.) So far I… - Installed the French language package - Changed the store view codes to fr & en - Set French as the de...

Magento enterprise 1.9 checkout empty page

Hi, I hope someone might experienced this issue before me. In y case i updated my client site 1.4.0 to magento enterprise 1.9 and everything was going smoothly except this main checkout process. And i was kept on asking magento support they are not able to reach at times. From my system.log file i got to know this issue, after so many...