Author Archives: Robert Kent

Rob is Ecommerce Web Design’s lead PHP developer, and an expert at customising the Magento framework to create completely unique sites. Follow him on twitter (because he's a twit) http://twitter.com/kent_robert. Visit Robert Kent's Google+ Profile.

Adjusting Layered Navigation Price Steps

Posted on: 15th May 2012 No Comments
Adjusting Layered Navigation Price Steps

Just a simple blog post today, I’ve been asked a few times recently how to set the “bracketed (or stepped)” prices on a category/search page. Well normally Magento looks after itself when it comes to splitting the price brackets on these pages – however sometimes it’s best to specify ourselves how we want the prices [...]

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Get Your Attribute Options (Dropdown / Multi-select)

Posted on: 11th May 2012 No Comments
Get Your Attribute Options (Dropdown / Multi-select)

If you want to get your attribute options – whether it be from a  drop-down or multi-select attribute you can do so easily using the following code: The above will give you back an array of Labels and the attribute option ID. It’s really just a little snippet but is really useful, I’ve recently used it to [...]

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Sitemap XML generation issues on Magento Cron

Posted on: 27th Apr 2012 No Comments
Sitemap XML generation issues on Magento Cron

If you are experiencing problems when generating xml sitemaps through Magento a quick trick to fix it is to perform the following: Delete your xml sitemap Create a new xml sitemap and upload Make sure permissions on your xml sitemap is set to 777 Schedule your xml sitemap generation (or click generate again) The reasons [...]

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What to Look forward to in Magento 1.7

Posted on: 17th Apr 2012 6 Comments
What to Look forward to in Magento 1.7

Downloaded the RC1 today and had a quick look at the release notes. Thankfully the important stuff is written at the top (it’s quite long) and I wanted to show you a couple of features that might be interesting in the upcoming release of Magento 1.7. 1. Super Backup System From the looks of things [...]

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Magento Connect Error – Connection String is Empty

Posted on: 10th Apr 2012 1 Comment
Magento Connect Error – Connection String is Empty

If you have ever come up against an error in Magento Connect manager in your Magento installation that looks a little like this: “Connection string is empty” Then you may need to try the following: Go to Magento Connect Manager – Click settings – fill in your FTP details for your website and the location [...]

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