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[27 Nov 2009 | 7 Comments]

Suppose, you want to delete an attribute. But there is no delete option while you edit the attribute. This means that the attribute is system attribute. System attributes cannot be deleted. Only user defined attributes can be deleted. To delete the attribute, you have to make it user defined.

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[27 Nov 2009 | 10 Comments]

Difference between EAV and Flat Catalog In EAV database model, data are stored in different smaller tables rather than storing in a single table. Like, product name is stored in catalog_product_entity_varchar table

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[27 Nov 2009 | One Comment]

To be able to write your custom log message, you have to enable logging from Magento Admin. To enable logging, go to Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Developer -> Log Settings -> Enabled = Yes

Javascript »

[27 Nov 2009 | 2 Comments]

Here, I will be demonstrating on showing or hiding a div when a link is clicked. I have done this with Javascript and CSS. I have called showHideDiv() Js function when the link is clicked. The display of the div where content is present, is visible or hidden on each click. For this, CSS styling [...]

Magento »

[23 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments]

Different stores can be set in Magento. A product can be made visible in selected stores.

Magento »

[23 Nov 2009 | 16 Comments]

Scenario: A simple product is associated with a configurable product. You have the id of the simple product. Now, you need the id of the configurable product with which the simple product is associated. Get parent product id, i.e. get id of configurable product from a simple product.

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[23 Nov 2009 | 33 Comments]

You can resize image with fixed height and variable width. Or, you can resize with fixed width and variable height. Following code shows how you do it in Magento. Fixed width of 600px

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[23 Nov 2009 | 8 Comments]

The following code gives you the current url of the page you are:- $currentUrl = $this->helper(‘core/url’)->getCurrentUrl(); // Gives the base url of your magento installation $baseUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl();

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[23 Nov 2009 | 11 Comments]

When you fetch product data, you get the price as integer. Now, you must display the price with currency suffix. You can do this with the following code:- // let $_finalPrice be the integer price fetched

Magento »

[23 Nov 2009 | 9 Comments]

Here are code to Get, Set, and Unset Session in Magento. Set session with variable Name ‘testing_magento‘. The session value here is ‘hello‘. Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->setTestingMagento(‘hello’);

Magento »

[23 Nov 2009 | 5 Comments]

You can choose the view option as grid only or list only. The default is Grid/List. You can change it to List/Grid as well. For this, you have to go to System->Configuration->Catalog->Frontend

Javascript »

[17 Nov 2009 | No Comment]

You can add html elements dynamically with Javascript. In this article, I will show you how to do so. I have created two Javascript functions. One for creating html elements and the other for removing them. In my html elements, I have created ‘li’ and ‘strong’ elements inside ‘div’. The div id is ‘summary’. I [...]