This article shows how to get category information (category name, id, description, url, etc.) of the category page you are in. Along with the information of the parent category of the currently viewed category. Get current category // Get current category $currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category'); Print current category array < pre> $currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category'); echo " … Read more
This article shows how to get sub categories of a particular category and the number of products (product count) present in the sub categories. Suppose, you have a category named Furniture. The sub categories under Furniture are Living Room and Bedroom. Now, you want to show the sub categories under Funiture and the products associated … Read more
Difference between backorder and pre-order A backorder is for an item that was in stock previously but is temporarily out of stock. A pre-order is for an item that has not been released yet. Scenario for backorder: For example, a customer orders 3 items. One item is not in stock. Shouldn’t I be able to … Read more
This article shows how to get all the country list and region list in Magento and then populate that list in a selection box. Before going the code for fetching countries and regions, I would like to show a quick code to get country name by country code. Country code can be like NP (for … Read more
You can add attribute from Admin Panel -> Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes. You can also add attributes from mysql setup file of your module. MySql setup file is present inside “YourModule/sql/yourmodule_setup” directory. In the following example, the version of my module is 0.1.0. I have added attribute for product. I have added a … Read more
Scenario: While editing product programatically from frontend. I was trying to change the status of the product with the following code. I was trying to disable the product. Status value 2 = Disabled. // Trying to disable the product // $product->getId() = PRODUCT ID Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product->getId())->setStatus(2)->save(); Problem: Product could not be edited programatically from frontend. The … Read more
Suppose, you have a module called MyModule. Its version is 0.1.0. Now, you want to do some database changes for the module. You have the mysql setup file (mysql install file) mysql4-install-0.1.0.php in MyModule/sql/mymodule_setup folder of your module. You don’t need to make direct changes to database. You can upgrade your module to make your … Read more
This article shows how you can fetch all the categories related/associated with a particular product. $product->getCategoryIds() function gives array of category ids with which the product is associated to. We can loop through this array and load each category to get the category name and url. // Load product $productId = 1; // YOUR PRODUCT … Read more
In my previous post on getting height and width of image , I have written focusing on product image, i.e. getting height and width of product image. In this case, I will be showing you how to get height and width of any image in Magento. The image need not to be product image. You … Read more