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.

Change Store View by Referer URL

Posted on: 24th Jan 2012 No Comments
Change Store View by Referer URL

Did you know that you can load a store view depending on the website referer you came from? For example if I wanted to load my UK store view on mywebsitesshop.com because my customer visited from mywebsite.co.uk I could do this easily by adding a little piece of htaccess code. What you’ll need is this: [...]

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Magento Extension: Optimised Product Addition

Posted on: 17th Jan 2012 No Comments
Magento Extension: Optimised Product Addition

Hi Folks! Long time no speak! Today I wanted to talk to your about our new extension – Optimised Product Addition You can find it on Magento Connect! What this extension does is to add a piece of javascript to your admin panel – when you click on the “Add Product” tab this extension will [...]

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Magento Extension: Order Before X

Posted on: 16th Jan 2012 No Comments
Magento Extension: Order Before X

Have you ever wanted to display the exact time left until somebody can qualify for a certain delivery?  Be it “next-day delivery” or “free delivery”? Or anything else for that matter With our new extension you can pick your time of day to count down to, and the on-screen widget will tell the user – [...]

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Magento Controllers & Bad Ajax = problems

Posted on: 15th Jan 2012 No Comments
Magento Controllers & Bad Ajax = problems

One thing to take note of when developing with Ajax & Magento is the use of controllers. A lot of people will be using the following method when calling Ajax within Magento: Create Ajax Script – point to external file Create external php file Load Magento into that file Create methods and echo content The [...]

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Show ALL Customers, Products & Orders API

Posted on: 6th Dec 2011 1 Comment
Show ALL Customers, Products & Orders API

Following on from my previous post: Getting Started with the Magento API, I have now extended the tutorial to show you how to bring back information on Customers, Products and Orders. After following this tutorial you should end up with the following: If you have followed the initial tutorial you should now have an API [...]

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