January, 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Magento’

Extending Simple Configurable Products Extension for Magento

Posted on: 30th Jan 2012 By: Luci Smethurst No Comments
Extending Simple Configurable Products Extension for Magento

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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Magento remove all products

Posted on: 10th Jun 2011 By: Ben McManus 3 Comments
Magento remove all products

Here is a quick post about removing all of your products from your Magento installation. Select All and Delete is pretty pants when it comes to removing all of your products, especially if you have over +400 products. PHP max execution time usually would have passed. Open up your MySQL editor, select your Magento database [...]

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Magento create downloadable products

Posted on: 3rd Jun 2011 By: Ben McManus 2 Comments
Magento create downloadable products

This one has had me going round in circles for some time now and it’s been quite pesky to implement. Here’s my solution to creating downloadable links to your products through PHP. So we don’t have to re invent the wheel here is Rob’s post about creating a product, you can use this to get [...]

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Magento Dynamic Static Blocks

Posted on: 27th May 2011 By: Ben McManus 3 Comments
Magento Dynamic Static Blocks

I’ve not actually found a purpose for this but I think it’s pretty handy. Try and imagine this scenario: You have a category page This page will be used for displaying CMS content, which the client wants to edit You cant paste the CMS content in the description because it is being used in the [...]

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Magento Security Best Practices

Posted on: 6th May 2011 By: Ben McManus 3 Comments
Magento Security Best Practices

There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about how secure your online details are. Hopefully these tips could help you as a developer or an e-commerce store owner from nasty folk peering into your digital life. Developer As a Magento developer you should always be thinking about security. It’s not an [...]

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