Posted on: 5th Mar 2012
By: Luci Smethurst
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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Posted on: 16th Feb 2012
By: Luci Smethurst
For some reason, one day you may need to disable products through the database on one of your Magento developments. When this day comes, you may want to put your head into your hands and cry – you’re not wrong. Magento’s database structure isn’t exactly slim! However, never fear because Ecommerce Web Design is here! [...]
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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: 10th Jun 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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Posted on: 3rd Jun 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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