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Magento: Add custom attribute to Magento’s PDF invoice

Post published:July 4, 2012
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Add custom attribute to Magento’s PDF invoice

Hello everyone! Today I’ll show you how to add custom attribute to Magento’s generated PDF invoice in just a few steps. Since this article is pretty straight-forward, here we go.

One of my recent tasks was to create a custom attribute for products called inchoo_warehouse_location, and output it when click on “Print” (invoice in admin section) occurs. Since PDF generation is Magento’s core functionality, we’ll have to rewrite it a bit.
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How to tar/untar, compress/uncompress files/folders using php script

Post published:June 25, 2012
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Uploading and downloading files is a chore every webmaster has to cope with on daily basis, but if you do this by compressing the files, uploading the tar or zipped and uncompressing them on server, life becomes a little easier.

Similarly taking backup on a server becomes easier if you just compress the files/folder on server and download the tar.gz file. Usually these commands are run over SSH, but if you do not have SSH access, you can place the commands in php script too.
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SSH: How to Fix Permissions on Files and Directories?

Post published:June 23, 2012
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Here are the SSH commands to fix your permissions on a mass level: find ~/public_html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find ~/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {}…

Magento – Images Not Appearing on Frontend as well as Backend on Godaddy Server

Post published:June 15, 2012
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Magento – Images Not Appearing on Frontend as well as Backend on Godaddy Server Solution: Just Rename your .htaccess file inside the /media directory to .htaccess-old. This will absolutely resolve…

Magento: No input file specified – Godaddy

Post published:June 15, 2012
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After installing Magento in godaddy. I logged into the admin section, it shows “No input file specified”. Solution: Login to your Godaddy Account. Click on your hosting account. Go to…

CakePHP – jQuery Autocomplete Tutorial

Post published:June 15, 2012
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In this tutorial, i will show you how to implement jQuery UI’s autocomplete widget in cakephp. The script in this tutorial is copy paste from tutorialzine article “A Simple Movie Search App w/ jQuery UI” . We are using a MySql database containing a users table. When you start typing a user name in the text box of the search form, an AJAX request is sent to controller. The controller returns a JSON object with suitable user name.

This is what we’re going to create:

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Magento 1.7 Upgrade Errors with Solutions

Post published:June 12, 2012
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Magento 1.7 Upgrade Errors with Solutions

Upgrading Magento sometimes becomes very tedious. You may receive errors like 500 internal error, getAlloptions(), two navigation bars, Reindex error, “CONNECT ERROR: Package ‘Mage_All_Latest’ is invalid” etc. while upgrading to 1.7 version. In this blog we have shared some errors of magento 1.7 upgrade with their solutions.
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Magento: Tutorial- How to Upgrade Magento to 1.7 via FTP

Post published:June 12, 2012
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Magento: Tutorial- How to Upgrade Magento to 1.7 via FTP

Many of you might not like the previous method of Upgrade which was via connect manager. Sometimes when you have huge no. of products, then upgrading through Connect Manager, becomes a tedious task. In such a situation, we would like to suggest Magento Users to upgrade magento through FTP.

In this Tutorial, we will provide you steps to be followed while upgrading to Magento 1.7:
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Magento: Add dynamic blocks in phtml files

Post published:June 2, 2012
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To add dynamic blocks in phtml files. you can add this code to any where as you want in the phtml files like view.phtml:

Magento: How to change invoice status in Admin panel?

Post published:June 1, 2012
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Magento: How to change invoice status in Admin panel?

Problem:
When creating Invoice directly from Order in admin the invoice automatically gets marked as Paid. how can it be created with the status ‘Pending’ and marked as paid later?
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