Magento is an open source e-commerce application which is quite popular these days in technology world. It is an application which was designed using Zend framework. It uses one of the hi-end technologies of modern times i.e. entity attribute value database model for data storage. Magento Development is basically object-oriented programming (OOP). While, implementation of [...]

Are you looking for adding new language in your Magento store. Follow these easy steps and enjoy your multilingual site: Go here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/translations Select the language which you want to add Download the package and upload the files on your server. You can download the desired translation through Magento connect via admin. Once installed Go to: System [...]

Static block is very useful in magento to make the site functional. When we create the static block it ask for some attributes like title, identifier, statuc and content. We know How to add static block to your phtml file. Now here is the solution to get other attributes in phtml file.     For example we [...]

In the magento all the pages define by “Identifier”. First we will check the current page is a CMS page or not after that we will check the current page identifier is “home” or not. We will check for “home” identifier because by default magento home page identifier be “home”   To check the current [...]

If you are looking to run Magento site in your website. First you should confirm that you have magento compatible web server. You can check the System requirement from here. You can check the server compatibility with following steps Download the Magento Compatibility Check file to your computer and extract the zip file. Upload the magento-check.php file to your [...]

Some day before, I got a task to change the currency symbol for New Zealand. After some research, i got the solution. Now I am putting the solution here for reference: I had to change the currency symbol of New Zeland Dollar to NZ$. By default, the currency symbol for New Zeland Dollar is $. For this, you need [...]

Some time we face the 503 error in Magento website. Reason behind it is Magento Downloader. If you will check Magento Downloader you will get a option to unable or disable the maintenance mode. You can go to Magento Downloader directly by adding “downloader” after your domain name. E.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/downloader

Static Block plays a big role in magento to show the information, links, banner etc. on the Magento sites. All the website developer use static block in a different manner. below is the process to add static block in your phtml file (Magento Theme File). 1) First login into magento admin and create a static [...]

If you want to show the manufacturers list on your sidebar or anywhere else in magento site.  You just need add some little code. First open the file app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php Add the below code at the end of file public function getAllManu() { $product = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’); $attributes = Mage::getResourceModel(‘eav/entity_attribute_collection’) ->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId()) ->addFieldToFilter(‘attribute_code’, ‘manufacturer’); //can be changed to any attribute [...]

Below is the code to get sub categories list from specific category in magento. For example, if we make a category by name “brand” (fro example id is 35) and we want to show all the subcategory list as select dropdown. So we can use below code: <select style=”font-size:11px;” id=”select-manufacturer” onchange= “window.location.href=this.value”> <option value=”#” selected=”selected”>—-Select [...]