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Extending Simple Configurable Products Extension for Magento

Posted on: 30th Jan 2012 No Comments
Extending Simple Configurable Products Extension for Magento

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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Use Magento Custom Fields Dynamically, Based on Quantity

Posted on: 14th Mar 2011 8 Comments
Use Magento Custom Fields Dynamically, Based on Quantity

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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Customise Page Layout Based on Product Attribute Set

Posted on: 7th Mar 2011 2 Comments
Customise Page Layout Based on Product Attribute Set

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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Enable Template Path Hints in Magento Admin

Posted on: 28th Feb 2011 8 Comments
Enable Template Path Hints in Magento Admin

I don’t know about you, but sometimes things are just difficult to find in Magento. Especially, it seems, admin files. For example I needed to find the file that called the address fields for the manual create an order page. Really a lot more difficult than it should have been… until You turn on the [...]

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Enable Payment Methods for Admin Only in Magento

Posted on: 21st Feb 2011 8 Comments
Enable Payment Methods for Admin Only in Magento

Recently a customer wanted to enable a payment method to display only in the admin area. Immediately I started looking around for manual payment options that I could hack up a treat. And then.. it hit me. Count up how many payment methods your customer has enabled. In this case, it was just the two [...]

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