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.

Shipping Tax in Subtotal Bug 1.5

Posted on: 29th Nov 2011 No Comments
Shipping Tax in Subtotal Bug 1.5

There’s a strange bug that exists in version 1.5 of Magento that not a lot of people would have noticed – basically when you have an order and you to invoice it – you will see a subtle change in the subtotal. This only happens when you have your tax settings set to display everything [...]

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E-Commerce Web Design Video Blog – Moving Forward

Posted on: 15th Nov 2011 1 Comment
E-Commerce Web Design Video Blog – Moving Forward

Here at E-commerce Web Design we enjoy a good Hijacking session… That is why myself and Adam from the Magento Blog decided to Hijack the Creare weekly video blog to let you good people know about the Meet Magento event that was held a couple of weeks ago. Adam has written his own opinion and [...]

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Getting started with Magento Core API

Posted on: 9th Nov 2011 2 Comments
Getting started with Magento Core API

Ever wanted to try out the Magento core API? I know I have – and I did! Here’s a good one to start off with – adding a customer! First of all we need to make sure that we have a valid user account to connect via the API: Visit > System > Web Services [...]

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Google Product Categories (Google Base)

Posted on: 1st Nov 2011 6 Comments
Google Product Categories (Google Base)

With the recent changes to the Google Base product search causing issues with many of the google base implementations with Magento I’ve updated the Products In Google post with our newest script which should keep your google shopping results running for a little while longer. One aspect that has not been covered however is the [...]

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Login to Magento via Curl (Cross Domain)

Posted on: 25th Oct 2011 9 Comments
Login to Magento via Curl (Cross Domain)

If you have ever wanted to be able to login your customers from an external domain you can do so in two obvious ways: 1. Use an HTML form to post to the login controller in Magento However if you want to be able to log the customer in without them filling out a form [...]

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