Who holds the ultimate responsibility in controlling what people can access in the online world? This is one of the hottest topics in internet ethics at present. The debate seems set to continue as governmental bodies begin to make demands of internet service providers in an attempt to filter online content. Regulation becomes ever more [...]

A demo store is where there are products but the order done by customer is not processed. If your website is in development mode then it is better to enable demo store notice. Enabling demo store notice in Magento is very simple. You just need to select an option in configuration settings in admin panel.

The Robots META Tag is meant to provide users who cannot upload or control the /robots.txt file at their websites, with a last chance to keep their content out of search engine indexes and services.

Here is a quick and useful code on getting actual price and special price of any product in Magento. The actual price is the real price assigned to the product and special price is the price after any discount is applied to the product. Loading Product

HP has had a difficult time with successfully filling its position of CEO. Though Carly Fiorina’s tenure lasted 6 years, she was forced to resign in 2005 amid allegations that her controlling interests and methods were not in the best interest of the company and its progress. Mark Hurd was selected as her replacement as [...]

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. I am using Windows 7 Operating System and WAMP Server.

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. I am using Ubuntu Operating System. This article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu.

Here is the code to get ratings and reviews for any particular product. Displaying the ratings

Ogone is one of the leading European Payment Service Providers with more than 28.000 clients across 40 countries. Ogone is connected through certified links to more than 200 European banks/acquirers that enable handling of international payment methods like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club and JCB as well as local ones like iDEAL and Machtigingen [...]

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be “IP-based“, meaning that you have an IP address for each web site, or “name-based“, meaning that you have more than one web site per IP address. The [...]

This article shows how to reindex Magento Data Programmatically (through code). You can manually reindex data from System -> Index Management. However, this article is concerned how this can be done through code/programming. Currently, there are 9 indexes. They are as under (with their respective key number):-

PHPMailer is a PHP class for PHP that provides a package of functions to send email. It is an efficient way to send e-mail within PHP. The following are some features of PHPMailer:- – Sending HTML email – Sending email with attachments – Sending email to multiple recepients via to, CC, BCC, etc – Supports [...]

You can manually create CMS Pages in Magento from CMS -> Pages. Similarly, you can create Static Blocks from CMS -> Static Blocks. This article will show how to create CMS pages and Static blocks programmatically from code.

If you are developing a module which needs to give access to its content only to logged in user then the preDispatch function will be very useful. This dispatches event before action. Just write the following function in your module’s controller and customer log in is checked before each of your controller action.

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I [...]