Here is a quick solution to the problem of upsell, cross sell and related products not showing up in Magento shop frontend. This problem occurs in Magento version 1.4 or higher. Scenario:

Scenario: I am using wordpress for my blog. I have registered my blog in disqus.com. I just installed the ‘Disqus Comment System’ wordpress plugin in my blog. Now, when I try to access my blog’s RSS Feed, I get error saying “Closing Tag Mismatch” and the RSS Feed is not displayed properly. The feed crashes. [...]

Here, I will show you how you can filter or fetch products related to any particular attribute and value. A simple scenario will be filtering products by manufacturer/brand. Suppose, I want to get all products under ‘Samsung’ manufacturer/brand.

Here, I will be showing you how you can add google adsense to your blogger / blogspot website. Note: I will be telling about adding adsense in sidebar and in each single post as well.

You can easily hide or remove the top navigation bar from your blogger website. You just need to add a simple CSS code. – Go to Design -> Edit HTML of your blogger website. – Add the following CSS code (You can write the CSS code inside style tag OR, you can put it in [...]

In your Magento shop URL, if you see “index.php” and wanted to remove it then here is the solution. – First of all, apache module ‘mod_rewrite‘ should be enabled. Check apache’s httpd.conf file this. – Then login to Magento admin panel – Go to System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimization -> Use [...]

Scenario: I have changed my product’s Visibility to ‘Nowhere‘. But still the product is visible in both catalog and search. I have refreshed cache but the problem is still there. Cause:

Maintenance mode is a key feature required to any website. You need to set the live website into maintenance mode whenever you need to do any changes in the website. Here, I will show how you can do this in Magento. For Magento version 1.4 and above, you just need to create a file named [...]

Here is a quick code to check if the current page is homepage or not. Below is an alternative way to check for homepage:-

In my previous article (Magento: Very Useful Collection Functions), I had written about database interaction functions present in class Varien_Data_Collection_Db. Here, I am going to explain some database interaction functions present in the class Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Collection_Abstract. These collection functions are very useful to select data from Magento database. We need them almost all the time for [...]

Here is a funny summary of the Bhagavad Gita (Hindi) for Computer Programmers / Developers.. Cheers !!

Here is a quick code to convert price amount from current currency of the shop to base currency. This is applicable when you have a multiple currency shop. From the code below, you can convert any currency you desire. You just need the ‘From Currency Code’ and ‘To Currency Code’. In the example below, I [...]

Here are the 9 Promises taken before choosing the Software Field. 1) I have already enjoyed my life in childhood. 2) I love tension.

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can fetch any company’s data from Yahoo! Finance. INTRODUCTION

In this article, I will be showing you how to read and write CSV file with PHP. I have used PHP function fgetcsv to read CSV fields and fputcsv to write on CSV file. fgetcsv — Gets line from file pointer and parse for CSV fields. fgetcsv() parses the line it reads for fields in [...]