What are the best practices when creating a Magento extension to avoid conflicts with other extensions that get loaded to a store. I know how to code with the override method, observer methods and the details behind how to do that the preferred way. That still doesn't stop you from having conflicts with other modules out there and upgrad...
as titled. I found no related solutions / questions . I just wonder how I can assign a new attribute to a product of certain attribute set via API. ...
When you log into the Magento Admin Panel, you're only shown menu items that your role allows you to. Where in the Core does Magento check the user's role to determine which Navigation items should be shown? (I'm not interested in the _isAllowed method on Admin controllers, I'm interested in the Navigation rendering). Also, as along a...
how to make customize module in magento with fetching value from table ? ...
i wanna add the option to vote for a product or give a rating, you know, the 5 stars, the user pick an amount, i don't know if i can do that in the backend, untill now, no result, i need someone to guide me with this, maybe i need a new module, or maybe just configure the backend and wow, its done. thanks ...
hello all I am using magento api .. in which i have used "catalog_product_attribute_media.create" ..thats giving problem if it doesn't get image on server where this image exist. problem is that ..it stoping my script to run further I have checked if URL is none.. but how can i handle this situation that is it getting url ...but image n...
hello all I just want to ask .... is there any method or tool by which csv/excel file of products can be directly imported to magento database? I have no idea about it .. Thanks! Richa ...
I've created a new custom option type and inserted it into the Magento back end. I've got the front end portion of this working rather nicely. However, I can't figure out how to customize the interface for the new option type. To be more specific as to what I am doing, I created non-displayed categories that contain products which rep...
I would like to see how the abandoned shopping cart report is being generated from (what models it is using). I am hoping to add the ability to split out the customers first and last names since we want to use this to import the information from Magento into our email list management program. Does anyone know where this report is gene...
I followed the tutorial at http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/installing_custom_attributes_with_your_module step by step to make my module install a couple of custom attributes, using Magento CE 1.4. I get to see the custom attributes on the product edit page, but whenever I ...
There are some Magento Connect extensions that I find myself installing every time I create a new project, such as Fontis_Recaptcha, Mass_Product_Relater, HM_DeveloperToolbar, ModuleCreator, Alanstormdotcom_Layoutviewer, etc. What's on your list? Does anyone know of a capability to automate the installation of a base set of modules? I...
Hello all! I need your suggestion please, currently am using magento API for import products in magento admin (magento database) and I come into notice that .. its really too slow ..its taking approx 1 hr to add 1000 products ..and I have to add almost 2,60,000 + products ... how can I speed up the process .... is there process any alte...
Ok so i built a module now I need to move it so it shows up as a tab in edit product I tried creating directory app/code/local/mycompanyname/adminhtml/Catalog/Product with all the same sub directories and file structure of my original module and in each of the files change the classes for example edit.php from class <myCompany>_...
Firstly I am new to Magento, so please explain in detail if you can help. I have used the following code: <div class="left-nav-inner"> <h3 id="products">Products</h3> <h4>Shop by:</h4> <ul id="product-menu"> <?php /* Get the categories that are active for the store */ $_main_categories=$this->getStoreCategories(); /* ...
I am developing an e-commerce website where we need to have 2 store views. One for the professional customer and another for the retail customer. We need to have the same inventory but different product description, different attributes, and look and feel for wholesale/retail customer groups. ...
Magento version 1.4.1.1 I'm trying to retrieve a product list filtered for a specific website using the XMLRPC API (catalog_product.list method call). The server returns "unknown error". I can call this same method and filter by status, sku, etc. But anytime I try to filter on a field that can contain multiple values (e.g. websites, cat...
I would like to create a coupon code for my Magento shop where only customers signed in and subscribed to newsletter could use. First of all, am I missing a simple option to do this? If not, would the only option be to override whichever module takes care of this? Thanks ...
I have a collection that takes significant time to load. What I would like is to cache it (APC, Memcache). It is not possible to cache the entire object (as it cannot be unserialized and it is over 1 MB). I'm thinking that caching the collection data ($col->getData() ) is the way to go, but I found no way to rebuild the object based on t...
Hi, I created more than 30 categories, and added more than 1000 products to them. Less than a week later, I upgraded to Magento 1.4.1 from 1.4.0. Now I can able to categories and products. While editing, I can see all the categories, but the old products don't show the newly created categories on the edit page. Please point out to me W...
Hello. I want to filter some configurable products by attributes that are used to create more instances of that product (size, color etc.). This means those attributes are not directly assigned to the configurable product, but their childs. I already have a code that filters configurable products by some attributes, but these are all as...