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In a Magento store it is possible to increase the current invoice ID to anything you like through phpMyAdmin. This is often something that needs doing when receieving the dreaded Paypal duplicate invoice ID error, which looks like this:

“The transaction was refused as a result of a duplicate invoice ID supplied.  Attempt with a new invoice ID”

A common cause [...]

In Magento, you may notice that all the text generated on the frontend is echoed with a PHP include, rather than being inputted manually onto the page. The reason for this is because it’s actually calling the text from a different folder, which in turn can be modified dynamically by the translate inline function – something which may go [...]

An ocassional problem that arises when implementing Paypal Pro and Paypal Express into Magento is a security error that occurs during the checkout. While attempting to complete the order this message can be displayed:

“There was an error during communication with Paypal: Security error – Security header is not valid”

There are several reasons why this can happen, from not setting [...]

It may have gone reasonably unnoticed, but there’s a mini login form phtml file located in the vast folder structure of a Magento website, one which can be used on a website’s homepage to create a quick and simple login area for users. It is common to see such forms on the bigger e-commerce sites across the world wide [...]

A feature that is absent from the Magento frontend is the ability for a customer to choose which customer group they belong to during registration, no different to what is available to the admin when they choose to register new customers. This can be quite important in instances where you wish to apply different tax rules to different types [...]