27Oct 2021 by admin No Comments

How To Choose Magento Company – Step by Step Process Guide

Magento is a scalable platform that is ideal for developers and companies alike. The platform offers a robust collection of characteristics, including security, flexibility, development design, and scalability. An eCommerce development may use Magento to tailor an online shop to a client's demands. This captures the degree of adaptability that this crucial platform provides. It is wise to recognize that internet firms, especially those younger, must adapt to current trends to deliver the best services available to their clientele. Additionally, systems like Magento have the potential to increase online sales by ensuring educated purchase choices. Magento experts will develop a website or solution for you that satisfies most consumer requests, hence enhancing customer engagement and user experience. However, hiring Magento developers is not a straightforward process. Numerous elements must be…

10Oct 2021 by admin No Comments

Magento vs. Shopify vs. Woocommerce: What Works Best For Your Online Business?

Magento, Shopify, Woocommerce

When there are so many ecommerce website development platforms available on the internet, it is overwhelming to decide which platform you should choose to develop your ecommerce website. Magento, Shopify, and WooCommerce are the major ecommerce website building platforms that are popular and holding millions of businesses over their platform. However, one of the major aspects that you should look at while choosing the ecommerce platform is that it should be manageable, easy to maintain, and provide features that help you run a successful online business. These are the most crucial factors that every business owner or manager should consider as they will also decide the success & failure of your business. Here in this blog, we will help you to solve this big problem by giving you an overview…

03Jul 2011 by admin No Comments

How to create custom module in magento

Magento

Magento is best eCommerce system now a days which is offering rich customization possibilities by extensions and modules. Magento is built on a fully modular model that influences an unlimited scalability and flexibility for your store. Ajaxform and Ajaxsubmit There are many things custom modules can do, from editing your Database, to handling module upgrades to overriding classes (Blocks, Controllers, Models) … and more! Magento is an open source solution. So you can write new modules for Magento by yourself. Here I want to show you how to create simple costume module magento. In Magento all modules are organized under a package. This package is nothing but a simple folder under codepool containing different modules. For example all core modules of magento system is kept under package “Mage” (open the…

29May 2011 by admin No Comments

Excute custom query in magento

Magento

Magento has provide us very good features for handling or interacting with Database tables. Magento give all the data by default but some time we need to get or insert some custom data.So for this we need to write custom query. Database Connections In Magento [php] <?php // fetch read database connection that is used in Mage_Core module $read= Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_read'); // fetch write database connection that is used in Mage_Core module $write = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write'); ?> [/php] How to excute custom query in magento [php] <?php // fetch read database connection that is used in Mage_Core module $read= Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_read'); $value=$read->query("SELECT ...."); $row = $value->fetch(); echo "<pre>";print_r($row);echo "</pre>"; // As Array ?> [/php] Insert custom data in magento tabel [php] <?php // fetch write database connection that is used in Mage_Core module…

15May 2011 by admin No Comments

Add New Field to Magento Contact Form

Magento

In magento default contact us form provide only four fileds information like Name, Email, Telephone and comment but some time need to more information for contact form it's depends on bussiness model and criteria. If you want to add new field or need more inforation about the user from contact us so this artical to be helpfull to you. Below are the step how to add new field in magento contact us form. This example to show you how to add extra input type field in magento contact us form. Step 1: Add field to phtml file Go to app -> design -> frontend -> yourpackage -> yourtheme -> template -> contacts -> form.phtml If you want to add required field: [sourcecode language="plain"] <li> <label for="email"><em>*</em><?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Company Name') ?></label>…

08May 2011 by admin No Comments

Please check for sufficient write file permissions in magento connect manager

Magento

If you want to use install any other magento extension or upgrade your mangeto from magento connect manager its really very easy to do that. You can find really some great extensions some are paid and some are free from magento commerce site.Find extension that interest you, click "Get extension key", agree with license agreement and get key. But some times you want use magento connect manager and its display error like "Please check for sufficient write file permissions". Magento Connect requires write permissions to the Magento files in order to install new extensions or upgrade the software to a new version. You can change your file/folder permissions either thru your FTP Client (like FileZilla) OR thru a SSH client (like Putty). Go inside your Magento folder & change permissions…

04May 2011 by admin No Comments

How to get Magento layout outside of Magento

Magento

Get Magento Content Outiside of Magento I integreated wordpress in my magento store and I will try to get magento data in wordpress file. I want to same header in my both site magento and wordpress. I tryed to hard and finally got the solution to get any magento layout in wordpress. Below are the script to get magento layout outside of magento. [php] <?php require_once '/home/.../public_html/.../app/Mage.php'; umask(0); /* not Mage::run(); */ Mage::app('default'); // get layout object $layout = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout'); //get block object $block = $layout->createBlock('page/template_links'); /* choose whatever category ID you want */ //$block->setCategoryId(3); $block->setTemplate('page/template/links.phtml'); echo $block->renderView(); ?> [/php] Get Magento layout outside of Magento Below script to get whole magento header section with top links out side of magento. [php] <?php require_once '/home/.../public_html/.../app/Mage.php'; umask(0); /* not Mage::run(); */…

01May 2011 by admin No Comments

Display sub categories on main category page+Magento

Magento

display sub-categories instead of products on main category page+magento If you want to display Sub Categories list on main category or parent category in magento. So this artical may be help ful to you for design and display subcategories on parent category page+magento. => Copy the Category.php file from core to local. Create any directories required under app/code/local. (This is so images can be displayed) [sourcecode language="plain"] $ cp app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Resource/Eav/Mysql4/Category.php app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Model/Resource/Eav/Mysql4/Category.php [/sourcecode] => Add -addAttrbuteToSelect('image') to getChildrenCategories function [sourcecode language="plain"] public function getChildrenCategories($category) { $collection = $category->getCollection(); /* @var $collection Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Category_Collection */ $collection->addAttributeToSelect('url_key') ->addAttributeToSelect('name') ->addAttributeToSelect('image') ->addAttributeToSelect('all_children') ->addAttributeToSelect('is_anchor') ->addAttributeToFilter('is_active', 1) ->addIdFilter($category->getChildren()) ->setOrder('position', 'ASC') ->joinUrlRewrite() ->load(); return $collection; } [/sourcecode] => Add or modify the category view template app/design/frontend/yourdiractory_path/default/template/catalog/category/view.phtml [php] <?php $_category = $this->getCurrentCategory(); $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCategories($_category->entity_id); $rootcat = $_category->entity_id; $cat =…

23Apr 2011 by admin No Comments

How to call static block in magento

Magento

What is static block in magento? Static blocks can be used throughout your theme wherever you want to make small updates to a section of a page. Typical uses would be for promotional banners/callouts in sidebars or for some custom text in the middle of your home page. Static blocks can also be inserted into CMS pages or included in category pages. Creating s static block => Login in into your magento admin panel. => Navigate to CMS->Static blocks => Click Add new block => Give your block title (Title: A descriptive name to identify this block) => Give your block identifier (Identifier: The identifer will allow you to call this block from your template files or using the Magento markup tags. Typically this would be programmer friendly name with…

19Apr 2011 by admin No Comments

How to get Current page url in magento.

Magento

Get Current page url in magento or you can find catalog url using below code. With the help of this code you can easily find current page url in magento [php] <?php $current_page = ''; /* * Check to see if its a CMS page * if it is then get the page identifier */ if(Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName() == 'cms'): $current_page = Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier(); endif; /* * If its not CMS page, then just get the route name */ if(empty($current_page)): $current_page = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName(); endif; /* * What if its a catalog page? * Then we can get the category path :) */ /* * Or you can check all values * $current_page_array = Mage::registry('current_category'); * $current_page_array['url_path'] */ if($current_page == 'catalog'): $current_page = 'path-' . preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9]+#', '-', strtolower(Mage::registry('current_category')->getUrlPath())); endif; ?> [/php] Also if you…