Posted on: 12th Aug 2010
By: Adam Moss
Aheadworks have developed a great extension called Z Blocks, trouble is parts of the manual can be a bit ropey. It tells you how to set up the XML and configure the admin, but it doesn’t tell you how to call your XML into the your phtml file. For [...]
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Posted on: 11th Aug 2010
By: Robert Kent
Recently we installed magento 1.4.1.1 into a subdirectory and we presented with the following error:
“Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/shop/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php on line 529″
The main reason for this error is quite simple yet something of a bug. Don’t bother going to the [...]
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Posted on: 10th Aug 2010
By: Robert Kent
Paypal has issues. The main issue though is the way PayPal reacts when it does not receive the billing address. Unfortunately PayPal only processes card payments if it has the billing address for that card – if you are shipping a product to somewhere else then problems occur…
To counter [...]
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Posted on: 9th Aug 2010
By: Adam Moss
The automatic XML sitemap of Magento has been documented on several occasions as a useful tool for Magento SEO. One thing that’s always bugged me about it however is the fact that by default it indexes the homepage as http://www.yourdomain.com/home rather than just http://www.yourdomain.com. This can be fixed pretty [...]
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Posted on: 5th Aug 2010
By: Adam Moss
Things in life are much better when they’re local. A local supermarket is better than one 10 miles away. A local pub is even better than that. These values should also be applied to Magento websites, though I wouldn’t recommend building websites in the pub… Following on from Luci’s [...]
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