Author Archives: Adam Moss

Adam is Ecommerce Web Design's lead Magento developer and researcher who enjoys writing PHP and JavaScript functions with Magento in order to create bespoke solutions. Follow Adam on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adampmoss. Visit Adam Moss's Google+ Profile.

Magento Product Collection Overview

Posted on: 9th May 2012 No Comments
Magento Product Collection Overview

For any Magento developer or module maker you will find yourself consistently needing to load product collections for a variety of reasons. Whether you’re creating an AJAX search form, creating a back-end inventory module or simply showing a list of products on your homepage you will need to show and filter your products. Magento’s Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Collection class [...]

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Echo Custom Variables Per Store View

Posted on: 1st May 2012 No Comments
Echo Custom Variables Per Store View

I posted a few months back about echoing custom variables on a phtml page. This works fine if you’re working only with the one store/website. However in the instance that you are working with multiple stores in potentially differing languages, it’s important to know how to echo the correct custom variable data for your store [...]

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Adding Custom Translations to Your Language Pack

Posted on: 26th Apr 2012 No Comments
Adding Custom Translations to Your Language Pack

One of the greatest benefits of choosing Magento as your ecommerce platform is the ease at which you can create multiple stores with different languages. Using just 1 installation you can cater to customers from the UK, to France to China. By downloading a language pack from Magento Translations half the work is already done.I [...]

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Use Custom Attributes for Promotion Conditions

Posted on: 19th Apr 2012 No Comments
Use Custom Attributes for Promotion Conditions

Sometimes, blog posts covering ‘the basics’ are more useful than my essay-length tutorials. This is something that I have been asked about a lot by Magento newcomers, so here it is in black and white for those getting to grips with Magento’s features. You can use custom product attributes to create more detailed and specific [...]

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Site-wide Magento Holding Page

Posted on: 13th Apr 2012 2 Comments
Site-wide Magento Holding Page

A while ago I did wrote a Magento Blog posta bout how to put a holding page up in a development environment which works fine except if someone knows how to get to aother URL on your site, then the rest of the site is effectively open for normal use. If you’re putting a new [...]

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