Its been a while since my last article. Figured I might write one before Google search punishes me -Recently I was working on a task that, among other things, required an order to be created programatically alongside with the customer and its billing and shipping address. Example I will demonstrate is just one [...]
December 10, 2009
We’ve seen much discussion from community members on integrating custom search capabilities into Magento. Google Custom Search is growing increasingly popular and allows you to harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your customers and add it to your Magento site. Using a custom search you can create a [...]
November 25, 2009
This post is guest post by our Enterprise Partners at BoaBaz. It is a good introduction into the Magento Dataflow terms and definitions. It should be a good starting point for developers who want to implement data exchange (import/export) between Magento and some 3rd party system. Parts of this article were initially posted on Baobaz [...]
November 9, 2009
Sometimes due loosely, undefined, agreement around some feature and deadline that’s thrown upon us, developers need to look for the fastest solution around some requirement. Fastest but stable is the key word here. Here is a practical example of one can easily connect Magento with some other system. In my case I had Magento plus WordPress [...]
October 24, 2009
Recently I was assigned a task to check the slowness of PDF printing on invoice page of Magento admin. It took him around 5minutes to print PDF (return PDF document on Invoice page). After diving into the code trying to trace the issue I found what was the cause of slow printing. PDF document that [...]
October 23, 2009
With all its ORM, model, resource and so on greatness, sometimes platform limitations are too obvious in Magento when it comes to large number of products in store. Recently I faced a simple task, I needed to disable around 6500 products in Magento that were assigned to a single category called “Inactive Products”. Given that [...]
March 4, 2010
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