Posted on: 3rd Feb 2012
By: Adam Moss
This method has been covered elsewhere, but it’s certainly worth mentioning for developers looking for a multi-domain website but are stuck with a now ancient-looking Magento 1.3. My previous post about multiple domains on 1.4+ uses the .htaccess method of detecting the URL and running the correct website. On 1.3 however, this is not possible [...]
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Posted on: 30th Jan 2012
By: Luci Smethurst
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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Posted on: 24th Jan 2012
By: Robert Kent
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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Posted on: 20th Jan 2012
By: Adam Moss
Half way through writing a customised grouped product page for Magento, I realised that I’d never come across getting attribute labels before. I already had the attribute code loaded, so I just needed the script to load it by that attribute code. It turns out that product attribute labels is a bit of a tumbleweed [...]
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Posted on: 18th Jan 2012
By: Adam Moss
The tier pricing system in Magento is a nice feature, but it certainly needs some attention. We’d like to see the tier prices manageable via dataflow for a start, and a nice feature would be to create tier pricing rules and apply them en masse. I have developed a quick extension which allows merchants to [...]
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