You want to offer a product with a coupon discount but would like this done in one step. What you do not want is the customer having to click on a link to add the product to the cart and … Continue reading
Magento Category and Product Order
Magento offers simple category and product ordering although this may not be obvious at first. I thought I might share this simple information. Category ordering To change the order of categories, from within the Admin, go to Catalog -> Manage … Continue reading
Debugging Magento Email Issues
To check if the order confirmation email was sent, a good place to start is to check the order, specifically the information area (beside the order #) to see if the email was sent or not. If the order displays the … Continue reading
Magento Auto Invoice Orders
Sometimes the Magento order process causes more work than a client desires. Imagine you have a client who utilizes their Magento ecommerce store so their customers can make purchases online. Now they also want to process orders on their own … Continue reading
PHP DateTime class
PHP Dates with Timezone If you have not already, you will inevitably come across a problem of having to convert dates for user’s timezones. Factor into that daylight savings time and things can get quite messy. As of php 5.2.0, … Continue reading
Magento Search API
What is the Magento Search API? The Magento Search extension API is a Magento extension that allows Magento Store owners to provide a SOAP Service for other websites/apps to do product search with just a few lines of code and … Continue reading
MySQL JOINS Explained
MySQL joins have been an issue for many. Here is a simple explanation that demystifies JOIN’s. INNER JOIN This is the most used join. This join will return rows from Table 1 that have matching rows in Table 2. SELECT … Continue reading
Debugging Magento Issues
Occasionally there is a need to debug some Magento problem you may be experiencing. Enable error reporting In Magento’s index.php uncomment the following: #ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1); Turn on Magento Developer logging. In Magento admin System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer -> … Continue reading
Magento Order Comments
Recently we had a request from a client to add a comment to orders (ie. the checkout process). If you have ever wanted to add a field where customers can enter comments to their order, follow on below to see … Continue reading