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Applications that use .NET

What are your favorite applications, products, or any applications that you know of that use .NET or Asp.NET as their underlying platform? What popular companies do you know of as a .NET shop? This question is related to a few others that I have seen. So I've just made this one as a community wiki to see what kind of a response there is...

Magentocommerce - How to exclude 'out of stock' items from the front page?

Hi all, I'm currently using Magento ver 1.1.6. My store only sells unique items (shirts with exclusive designs) which means at any one time, only 1 unit is available for each items. How do I omit those items which are already sold from being displayed in the front page? BTW, I'm using these code to show products on the front page: {{b...

Existing sales/ordering engine that can be integrated to custom .NET app ?

Hi guys, There's this custom who wants software to generate quotes from a product catalog, print invoices, nothing too original here. But they also want a bunch of custom features and a custom presentation, so buy off-the-shelf won't do. Do you know any good product that we could integrate in the custom dev instead of reinventing the w...

front-end configurable products from simple products in magento?

hello all, a client has imported 1000 items to magento as simple products. many of these SHOULD be configurable products (ie, 4 yellow dresses of different sizes). the psuedo-configurable products all have the same "Style" number, so our 4 yellow dresses would have different SKU values but all 4 would share the Style. is there a way to...

How does Pricegrabber find and link to all the products?

I'm building a site where vendors will link their products to our product pages (for affiliate sales) and was wondering what algorithms people use to automate/facilitate this process? Right now they would have to manually enter the link for each product they own which is quite tedious. I noticed that Pricegrabber finds any product you ...

ASP.NET 3.5 Gridview layout for each product type in DB

I'm trying to create a simple CMS-likeb backend app that uses TreeView for categories and GridView for product display/editing. The problem that I'm experiencing lies within the fact that there is a different table structure for each product type and only one page(GridView) that displays them. That would not be so bad, as AutoGenerateCol...

What is the best OOP approach to implement the best Category and Products relationship using PHP?

I am trying to design a PHP project's structure. What I am not very sure about is how to implement categories and products relationship. A category has one parent, and can have many children. Product belongs to only one category. Db tables are like this: products: id product_name category_id categories id category_name parent_id ...

Magento : create ajax dropdwon populated with labels of 3 product's attributes.

Greetings, I'm, unluckily in need of having this : Product has (lets say) 6 attributes with "Yes/No" values. I need a dropdown on that product's page that will populate with attributes with "yes" value. attributes are :bundle1,bundle2....,bundle6. When selection is made - I need to know whats have been selected to pass...

Magento: After ordering configurable product, its canceled because its out of stock

Hello, my problem is: i have a product with simple products as childs. (maybe tshirts whith size S-XL and some colors) Now if i order one of this, it is canceled with the order-confirmation email. I think its a problem with the stock but i dont know. There are 99 items in stock of every kind and all are activated and ready to deliver....

What is the best way to prevent customers from rating a product more than once?

Hello, How do I prevent a customer from rating a product more than once? Is it best to use cookies that store the IP address or is it best to store user ratings in the database? I am using MySQL and ColdFusion. Cheers! ...

Magento google products site html help

I am trying to paste a google tag into homepage head tag but i cannot find it on index.php Where does it go?? ...

Skip Checkout in Magento for a downloadable product

Hello Magento boffins. I am using Magento to build an eBooks site. For the release, we plan to have a number of free downloadable books. We were hoping that it would be possible to use the normal Magento 'catalog' functionality to add categories with products underneath. However, since these are free downloadable products, it doesn't re...

problem with share products on facebook

hello.. i am using facebook sharer for share products which is in my website into facebook. i tried all the ways to do this..but i don't know where is the problem. when i am clicking the facebook icon in mysite then it redirecting to facebook and not displaying product name, product image, description of product. it cames untitled docu...

Programmatically add Bundle Products in Magento, using the SKU / ID of Simple Items

I have some simple catalog products in Magento, so I have their SKUs & IDs. Now I want to create a Bundled product using the array elements "bundle_options" & "bundle_selections" of the Bundle Items, which are used by the Magento Admin coding in its Observer Class. Also in the Observer class, there are method calls of two functions "...

Product specification as WS, XML or json

This is not a programming question but i hope this might be your field anyway. Is there a free standard protocol/source where I can download specifications about mobile phones, like size, weight, screen res. and so on. There is WURFL, uaprof but these are more focused on protocols/standards supported then the physical attributes and fe...

Working with products variations in ecommerce website

This is more of a "logic" question than a coding question. I am building this ecommerce site. Currently I am grouping products by: brand, category, subcategory1, subcategory2 and subcategory3. Just the standard way we are all used to work with. However, lets say we have something like this: iPhone 4 8GB ($US 199,49) iPhone 4 16GB ($US...

database of products images

Hi, I'm looking for a database of images of products (e.g. iPhone, Sony TV set, a Porche car) that I can freely use in my ecommerce site. I don't wish to hotlink - I'd be happy to host the images on my site, but wish to do so legaly. Thanks in advance for any help! Daniel ...

Does anyone know of a data description language for products?

Is there any kind of data description language / XML schema to address describing different kinds of products? I can't find anything of the sort. I'm looking to make something like that, but thought I 'd ask if something was already there first. ...

add categories column to the product grid in magento admin

Hi, I'm trying to add a categories column to the product grid. I've modified Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Grid. Added the following to _prepareCollection: ->joinField('category_ids', 'catalog/category_product_index', 'category_id', 'product_id=entity_id', null, 'left')...

Magento Dropshipping - How to automate catalog updates?

Hi, I am new to Magento and impressed by the MVC framework that powers it, making module development a well thought out solution. I am strong CakePHP developer. I am working on a project that uses a dropshipper for the physical products. As a result, every day at 4am a feed needs to be parsed and the products / categories modified, plu...