Rumball Motors Interactive » Magento

Programatically create customer and order in Magento with full blown “One Page Checkout” process under the hood | ActiveCodeline

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:41:32 +0000

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 way of doing things. If you have extra time on your hands, feel free to trace the code for more elegant solution.

For starters, lets create a customer and establish a login session right away for this newly created customer. Here is the code sample that does just that.

via Programatically create customer and order in Magento with full blown “One Page Checkout” process under the hood | ActiveCodeline.

Magento – Blog – How to Embed Google Custom Search in Magento – eCommerce Software for Growth

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:05:05 +0000

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 search engine that searches relevant parts of your site and helps customers find the products and/or information they are looking for quickly and easily helping to increase conversions and ensure that customers keep coming back for more.

via Magento – Blog – How to Embed Google Custom Search in Magento – eCommerce Software for Growth.

Magento – Blog – Magento Development: Introduction to Magento Dataflow – eCommerce Software for Growth

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:04:06 +0000

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 Blog: Magento Dataflow.

Cet article est consultable en Français sur le blog de Baobaz : Magento Dataflow.

One of major features of e-commerce websites is the possibility to share data with offline sale management systems. Magento made data exchange flexible and quite easy with DataFlow module.

Magento DataFlow is a data exchange framework that use four types of components: adapter, parser, mapper and validator. At current state of development validators are not implemented, but are reserved for future use.

via Magento – Blog – Magento Development: Introduction to Magento Dataflow – eCommerce Software for Growth.

ActiveCodeline » Magento plus some CMS, simple and quick integration tip

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:46:54 +0000

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 integration in which I needed to pull some user data, such as latest users, from WordPress into Magento block.

via ActiveCodeline » Magento plus some CMS, simple and quick integration tip.

ActiveCodeline: Invoice printing to PDF taking to long in Magento?

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:45:10 +0000

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 gets created has the ability to include the logo in header.

via ActiveCodeline » Invoice printing to PDF taking to long in Magento?.

ActiveCodeline: Bulk disable multiple Magento products

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:03 +0000

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 it was an import from old system to Magento it is irrelevant why one would use category “Inactive Products” instead of just setting their status to “disabled”. My point is, whats the fastest way to do a bulk action on large number of products.

via ActiveCodeline » Bulk disable multiple Magento products.