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How to recognize in Magento if current page have active additional layered navigation filters?

I need to intercept before product collection, if current page has active additional layered navigation filters to change visbility filter. ...

How can i add multiple sorting option on category page in magento ?

Hi, I want mulitple sorting option on the category - product listing p age in magento , where user can search by name then price and then sub category name Any one have nay idea that how can i achieve this ? thanks, hkp ...

How do I set the quantity of the option in my bundle product?

I have this code, which would add one bundle product with the ID of 171 to the cart, given the option of a product with the color(23) Magenta(63). Is there any way to set a quantity to the option, like say we want to set the quantity to 2 of those items with that color? Thanks for the help. $params = array( 'product' => 171, ...

Magento admin panel gives 404 when trying to enter cms pages

I'm using Magento 1.4.1.1 which works great other then the 404 when I'm trying to enter CMS/Pages in the navigation. All other pages work great and even other items in CMS menu, only Pages gives 404. What should I do? ...

Show price inc VAT for UK users only

How can I have my magento store display prices in the grid and list views with VAT only for UK visitors. i.e. if the visitor is not from the UK (probably based on browser detected information unless they are logged in users?), prices on the product listing page should be displayed exclusive of VAT. If the currency is changed from GBP, v...

Magento - Create a minimum shipping charge.

We use USPS API for international shipping. The API returns a shipping cost and we add % Handling charge. We want to set a minimum charge, e.g., if shipping + handling is less than $5 we want to set the shipping price to $5. Would this require writing a full shipping module or just adapt the USPS module? ...

Magento : How to retrieve option information from a bundled product?

I have a bundled Product that contains 3 virtual products as options. I have an observer that is listening to an event when an item is added to the cart and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get the option information that I selected when looking at the product: the start of the observer looks like this: public function checkS...

Fancy Box Overlay not working in IE8

Hi All, I am having an issue with FancyBox and IE8. For some reason IE8 does not recognize the background transparency on fancybox's overlay. It works in IE7 and older and Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. You can see the problem at: http://seabagsc.nexcess.net/tote-bags/kevlar-tote.html Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Chuck ...

Magento product listing using ajax

Hi, I have to add 5 separate tabs like By category,our picks, most popular top rated, your favorites in home page itself and each of them should list out the products under that one without full page reloading. That is using ajax , is it possible in magento. If so please guide me on this. ...

Magento - extending the Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Product_Collection class

OK, so this is leading on from another question I asked here recently. Basically, I want to extend the Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Product_Collection class, so I can add some extra filters for the product collections that can be re-used throughout my store (such as best-selling). This is meant to replace the following code, wh...

Location of head.phtml in Magento

I am working with Magento and need to remove a Javascript that is being included in the <head> section by default. I am using a modified theme called modern. I am looking for head.phtml in: app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/page/html/head.phtml It does not exist. I do have header.phtml and footer.phtml. The code from header...

Magento: programmatic search depending on store

Hi, I'm using the catalogsearch module of Magento. I have 2 stores. When searching "test" on the first one, I get 5 results. When searching "test" on the second one, I get 3 results. I'd like to add the results of the second store (just the number of results) when I search in the first one. I added a block and a template, all I need i...

Remove shipping methods completely from magento?

Hi, how can i completely remove ALL shipping methods/processes from magento? Thanks ...

Magento - Product prices with and without VAT change

I have set up two tax rates based on uk + eu tax (including vat) and rest of the world tax rate (excluding vat). All works fine and the correct tax rates show on the checkout and in the invoices but there is a problem: if you purchase something and you are from a non ey country then the frontend price reduces by 17.5% - the tax rate i h...

Magento: Difference between loading product through collection than product model

So we were trying to load a product through a collection with certain criteria, we didn't have the sku or the id so when we did the following $prodModel->getCollection() ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', $visibility) ->addAttributeToSelect('*') ->addCategoryFilter($cat) ->addAttributeToFilter('attribu...

Magento 1.4 Display Individual Product on Homepage

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know how to display an individual product listing (As it would be on the product page itself...with buy now button) on the homepage of a Magento 1.4 site? Thank you in advance for your time. Cheers, Nate ...

Magento custom order attribute/fields? Shooting myself in the foot?

I'm building a Magento store using a single catalog over 4 domains: 1 for the US and 3 for Europe (UK, French, and German). There's 1 fulfillment warehouse in Europe, 1 in the US and a sort of unofficial/internal "warehouse" in the US where giveaways and such are fulfilled, and we are not tracking inventory levels in Magento. We need to ...

Spree vs Magento vs OpenCart vs PrestaShop ?

I need to set up an online shop for my brother, I have no experience at all setting up an online shop, The number of options out there is overwhelming, Spree, Magento, PrestaShop, etc Is going to be an small shop (no more than 50 products), with a few custom features, nothing really complicate. I dont want to spend to much money in host...

Creating a new attribute does not update product flat data

Hi there, I'm writing an import module to import configurable products into magento, which works quite fine. I've tweaked the import so that it can create all necessary attribute sets, attributes and attribute options needed for creating the configurable products. So far everything works ... quite everything. When the import creates a n...

MySQL error with SQL AS

Hi there, I'm receiving the following error with this page while trying to retrieve information from my database; You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'FROM catalog_product_entity cpe inner join catalog_product_entity_varchar c...