Author Archives: Luci Smethurst

A tricky little bug I fell across the other day was Magento not validating certain numbers in the Date of Birth field at the user registration stage. The problem? The quirky parseInt function in /js/varien/js.js (thanks to IgorKalders for this solution). Thankfully, the solution is super simple – crack open your  /js/varien/js.js file and change this: which is on [...]

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For some reason, one day you may need to disable products through the database on one of your Magento developments. When this day comes, you may want to put your head into your hands and cry – you’re not wrong. Magento’s database structure isn’t exactly slim! However, never fear because Ecommerce Web Design is here! [...]

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The Simple Configurable Products Extension for Magento is a great tool that I’d recommend to nearly all folks developing Magento websites and one that I recently started dabbling with. On a recent development I found myself faced with what, at first, seemed like a complete and utter nightmare. I had configurable products that had prices (“Yes [...]

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Sometimes, what Magento offers you out of the box is just not good enough and we have to rely on ourselves to come up with a way to make it better, or work to fit our needs. Today’s post on the Magento blog has another little tip for getting Magento to do what you want, [...]

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Today I’m sharing just a little tip I recently learned about targeting specific product attribute sets in the XML to give them their own customised layout. And you only have to add in one line of code to one file. Nice and easy! Go to app > code > core > Mage > catalog > [...]

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