Scenario: I have a fresh installation of Magento 1.4. I already have installed the sample data for Magento. Now, when I go to the category listing page, no products are displayed. It says “There are no products matching the selection.“. By category listing page, I mean the product listing page displayed when any category is … Read more
In my previous article, I had written about how you can change the currency symbol by making some change in the Zend (lib/Zend/Locale/Data/en.xml) file. It’s easy way but the main drawback of this method is that all your changes will vanish once you upgrade Magento. A better way will be overriding Magento model classes that … Read more
A configurable product can have multiple other products associated to it. This article shows how to fetch all the children products that are associated with a configurable product. Here is the code: /** * Load product by product id */ $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product') ->load(YOUR_PRODUCT_ID); /** * Get child products id (only ids) */ $childIds = … Read more
I had to change the currency symbol of Nepalese Rupee (from Nrs to Rs). By default, the currency symbol for Nepalese Rupee is Nrs. For this, you need to edit lib/Zend/Locale/Data/en.xml Well, the xml file to edit depends upon your locale settings. My locale is set to English (United States). So, I will have to … Read more
You can see the currency Rates from Magento Admin System -> Manage Currency Rates You can change base currency and allowed currencies from System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Currency Setup -> Currency Options Now, here I will show you how you can get currency rates values for any given currency code. Here, I will … Read more
This article shows how to change your order status programmatically in Magento. First, you need to load your order. You can load order by either order_id or order_increment_id. Load order by “order id” $orderId = YOUR_ORDER_ID; $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->load($orderId); Load order by “order increment id” $orderIncrementId = YOUR_ORDER_INCREMENT_ID; $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($orderIncrementId); Change order status to … Read more
I got this error message when migrating my Magento files and database from one server to another. Notice: Undefined index: 0 in app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Mysql4/Config.php on line 92 Solution: – Open PhpMyAdmin – Go to your database – Click SQL – Run the following SQL Query: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; UPDATE `core_store` SET store_id = 0 WHERE code='admin'; UPDATE … Read more
Problem: I am using Magento 1.4. Homepage loads fine. When I go to category (product listing) page, it works fine. But when I go to any product detail page, I get the following error:- There has been an error processing your request Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. I don’t get the … Read more
This article will show how you can override/rewrite Magento Block, Controller, Model and Helper files. We will be dealing with the config XML files and the class files to override. We override Magento core classes to update/modify the core functionalities according to our need. We can directly makes changes in the core Magento classes but … Read more