// Gets the current store’s details $store = Mage::app()->getStore(); // Gets the current store’s id $storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId(); // Gets the current store’s code $storeCode = Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode(); // Gets the…
It's rather easy but you have to ensure that your site is based on some master repo that can be merged down the stream with earlier versions (repo that has…
Magento recommends you upgrade your installation using the following guidelines in a development or test environment, separate from your existing production environment: Create a parallel development or testing system, identical to…
It turns out that Magento has some really convenient functions already made at its core, which i don't know about and this is one of them. Mage category model object…
To get category's URL by its ID use the following code $category_id = 5; echo Mage::getModel("catalog/category")->load($category_id)->getUrl();
New version theme is not working in old version. After upgrading magento or when I design theme in magento 1.5.0.1 and use that theme in magento 1.4.2 that time my product page shows error like Invalid…
If you want to customize query or product collection data you can easily to do that with addAttributeToFilter funcation in magento. In short you can easily customize product collection select query based on your requirement in magento development.
<?php $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection(); ?>
If you want get all fields then use below condition select (more…)
The following error (or similar) is shown in Magento Connect Manager on installation/upgrade:
ERROR: unable to unpack downloader/pearlib/download/AW_Blog-1.0.21.tgz
There is a bug in current stable PEAR/Archive_Tar implementation resulting in impossibility to unpack archives made by certain software versions.
Magento Compiler feature should be disabled on any changes in loaded Magento classes, in other words, you need to disable Magento Compilation every time before installing new extension or initiating upgrade/downgrade/installation or removal of any Magento module.
To disable Magento Compiler you can use one of the following methods:
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Recently, one of our clients could not get their product categories to appear in the order set in the Magento Catalog > Manage Categories screen. No matter how they dragged and dropped the categories, the ones near the top would not display as intended on the front end.
Categories are displayed in navigation menus based on a field titled “position” in thecatalog_category_entity data table. By default, the order is displayed in ascending order. There are other ways of adding code to display categories alphabetically, but by default, the order shown is determined by the position value.
So, why would changing the order under Manage Categories not work?
When working in the Manage Categories menu, the client and I were focused on manipulating the top 2-3 categories, as those were the ones most important to him at the time. We could change their order, but even after re-indexing the Flat Catalog, the front end would still not display the correct order.
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