Does anybody know where to find a detailed guide to performing a bulk product/category/sub category import With Magento? For example, what fields can be imported? What format can be imported? How to do it with a Chron job? etc ...
Hi I'm new to magento and have been trying to set up a static block that displays a list of sub categories within a category. I've been succesfull a grabbing the sub-category images and names, but for some reason I can't seem to get the descriptions to show. Here's the code can't anyone explain why it won't work and how I can fix it?...
I want to change the advanced search layout to my needs. Instead of select boxes I want to have radio buttons with a picture and text in the description. For one button the layout is: [button][image][text] Thank you, Ivo Trompert ...
Hi guys, I've been reading a lot about this problem but I get nothing that suggests a way out. I am working with version 1.3.2.4 and after creating a bundle product, Magento displays it as price as zero, but gives the "current composition" as the correct value. I already tried to refresh the cache, rebuild the catalog index, and noth...
I'm looking for information about the default Magento theme including: Explanation of all directories. Explanation of files per directory. List & Definition of PHP snippets per file. For example, the PHP snippets used to place the buy button, review starts, product images, etc Does anybody know if/where I can find this? ...
I need to create a subscription module on magento. I created a module call subscription under a custom namespace in the local folder. I have register it with magento, so, I'm good to go. I want to be able to extend core Catalog_Product and add a couple new fields that relate to subscriptions, like trial period, charge date, and other sub...
Magento is an awesomely powerful ecommerce platform. That said, it is also very complex, and I'd like to know if there is a relatively simple way to utilize Magento as our mISV site's backend to fulfill orders without actually "using" Magento's framework to build the site, run the site, etc. In other words, I don't want to use the buil...
Hi all, I have been struggling with a stupid situation. A customer has asked me to alter his 'advanced search' page to add a few options. the url of this page is like http://www.domainname.com/index.php/catalogsearch/advanced/ This is a Magento store and I have no experience with this framework. I tried to learn but found the learning ...
I want a simple way to let my user pick there clothing size before buy but Configurable Product seems like to much overkill. you have to make a product of every size and then you have to make a configurable product. the shop is for my dad and if i have to explain him how he has to do this it would be weeks for him to know this, (it took...
Hi i want to display product and its custom options like size, colour on home page. how should i do that? i want to allow my customer to add product directly from home page by providing its custom options value. is their any way to do this? Thanks Magento Developer ...
Is Magento usually so terrible slow? This is my first experience with it and the admin panel simply takes ages to load and save changes. It is a default installation with the test data. The server it is hosted on serves other non-Magento sites super fast. What is it about the PHP code that Magento uses that makes it so slow, and what ...
Hi, I have my site with below structure. http://mydomain.com/magento mydomain.com/login.php I'm logging into magneto from here. I got session of logged in customer on login.php after submit form. But when i see Magento there is no user logged in. My login code is given below my magento version is 1.3.2.3 Mage::app(); Mage::getSin...
I'm developing an online store with Magento. The site will be high traffic and will need a two server setup, Testing and Production. My question is how do online stores, specifically Magento handle this? The idea I had is: Take Production site offline Empty Testing database Copy data from Production database. (Maybe ) Test Copy file...
hi my problem is that im using a theme in magento and using the 2-column left layout of the template. i want to show the shop by feature in category page.when i search anything on the site it shows the shop by block is the link of the site plz help ...
Hi all, I hope this question is ok for Stack Overflow – If it’s not appropriate then let me know and I’ll remove if that’s the case. Magento has been recently giving me the following error when I visit the shop on a windows machine: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 Can’t create/write to file ‘C:\WINDOWS\TEMP#sql_ac0_0.MYI’ (E...
Getting Like this: Could not connect to host Trace: #0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__doRequest('<?xml version="...', 'http://172.10.1...', '', 1, 0) #1 [internal function]: SoapClient->__call('findDevicesByAc...', Array) ...
It is possible in magento to add a VAT nr to your account but in belgium it's more common to add a VAT nr to your billing address.. is this possible in some kind of way ? ...
I hope to open the doors to discussion with this question. I am a CodeIgniter developer looking for an E-commerce solution that follows a similar MVC structure like CI. I have narrowed it down to two solutions, but maybe someone knows of something better. Magento - really well done, but slow Opencart - takes advantage of MVC, similar to...
Hey guys, I have the following code to grab a list of Products $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection(); $collection->addAttributeToSelect('name') ->addAttributeToFilter("category_ids", array('finset'=>$this->category_id)); foreach($collection as $product) { echo $product->getName(); } My question i...
Edit: This was a bogus question. The problem was that I had quotes in my description field. The entire field should be wrapped in one set of quotes with none inside. Changed quotes to apostrophes to fix. Magento is working correctly. I am using a Profile in the Import/Export section of my Magento admin to import a CSV document. My desc...