I just received the Mastering Magento ebook from Packt a few hours ago, I’m really out of time in these weeks but I wanted to share a couple of thoughts from the first look at this book. If you’re a Magento developer, than get it, from a really quick view (I’m gonna review it later) I [...]
News are coming out about our new loved/hated Magento major (and it’s gonna be really major) release: Magento2. First of all a technical overview video, not too recent actually: One amazing thing is that the development moved to github: https://github.com/magento/magento2 with all the benefits we know. Another nice improvement is that we have public tests [...]
If you’re deploying a Magento website using git you surely do not want the .git directory to be visible from the browser, so just put this line in your .htaccess: right after: let’s have a nice day now :)
On a big website, while Magento (this was a Professional 1.10.something) is reindexing (work done by a cron job) every page (viewed from the browser) seems to try to reindex the products it shows, that ends in a duplicate key error on an index temporary table (catalog_product_index_price_tmp), I needed a rough and quickfix I opened app\code\core\Mage\Index\Model\Resource\Helper\Abstract.php [...]
You’re developing a Magento importer and you want to clean your DB after some tests? Here you have: Note that only products’ attribute sets are deleted, those are often generated automatically during imports.
You’re developing a Magento importer and you want to clean your DB after some tests? Here you have:
I’ve run into a few posts about this thing but none of them was working out of the box so I took all the info and glued them together so… if you’ve to create a custom attribute for a Magento category but you don’t have a module (and its installer script) simply create a php [...]
So you want to import customer accounts but you’ve to generate the password hash? here you’ve the algorithm used by Magento Professional (which is different from Magento Community, but you can easily find that one in the net): By the way, for the community it’s
I’ve run into a few posts about this thing but none of them was working out of the box so I took all the info and glued them together so… if you’ve to create a custom attribute for a Magento order but you don’t have a module (and its installer script) simply create a php [...]
As I wrote a few days ago, I was asked to review the Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook by Packt so I took the right time to read it deeply and with great attention to point out every pro and con of this mid-length book (249 pages). First of all the book is available at a [...]