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Loading Products Externally with Price Rules

Posted on: 13th Mar 2012 By: Robert Kent No Comments
Loading Products Externally with Price Rules

If you’ve ever wanted to export a list of products and their prices from Magento in an external script you may find that by default any catalog price rules (i.e 20% off everything rule etc) will not be applied to the product. Those of you who follow this blog would have found that the Updated [...]

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Bulk Import Store Prices Directly

Posted on: 7th Mar 2012 By: Adam Moss 4 Comments
Bulk Import Store Prices Directly

Let me paint a picture for you… it won’t exactly be a Bob Ross painting but I’ll do my best. I had imported over 1,100 products into Magento with two websites and store views. The default retail site had all of its prices set fine, but the trade store had different prices. The only way [...]

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Run Magento Import Profile From A Link (Secret Keys)

Posted on: 6th Mar 2012 By: Robert Kent No Comments
Run Magento Import Profile From A Link (Secret Keys)

On a recent project we needed to allow a Magento Administrator the ability to upload their spreadsheet to an advanced import module. The problem was allowing them access to the root files. To get around this we created a module that allowed them to upload their spreadsheet to the /var/import folder and at the same [...]

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Magento Date of Birth Validation Bug

Posted on: 5th Mar 2012 By: Luci Smethurst 1 Comment
Magento Date of Birth Validation Bug

A tricky little bug I fell across the other day was Magento not validating certain numbers in the Date of Birth field at the user registration stage. The problem? The quirky parseInt function in /js/varien/js.js (thanks to IgorKalders for this solution). Thankfully, the solution is super simple – crack open your  /js/varien/js.js file and change this: which is on [...]

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Show Alternate Price in Other Currency

Posted on: 17th Feb 2012 By: Adam Moss No Comments
Show Alternate Price in Other Currency

I thought I’d share this post in case it helps anyone, but to be honest it’s pretty specific to the site I was working on. Here’s the scenario: I created a function which takes the price (either in Euros or Pounds) and then displays the price in the other currency. So if pounds are currently [...]

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