There are many different ways to use jQuery in Magento. The point on this is that given that Magento uses Prototype as default javascript framework (arghhh!), if we try to use jQuery libraries directly, there is going to be a «conflict». We can solve this activating the jQuery «no conflicts Read more…
I’ve been “suffering” out of memory problems on one of our clients magento installations. The version is the 1.4.0.1, and it seems that the queries are not as efficient as they are on Magento 1.5 and above. So I needed to find out what were exactly the SQL queries that Read more…
That’s easy: Take a look at this stackoverflow question.
If you want to override a core controller on Magento in order to add other customActions, it is really quick and easy to do so. You only need to create a few files…
When we install for the first time an extension that adds a menu on the System » Configuration panel, it is possible that we receive a 404 error when trying to configure it. This has happened to me on the Simple Configurable Products extension and the AheadWorks Blog extension. Solving Read more…
I’m one of those that wanted to add a login form on the sidebar of my Magento. This was really easy, I just add the following line to But after that, every page on my magento store showed the title page as “Customer Login”. This happened to me in Magento Read more…
By default, on the store views list (usually for languages), Magento creates links to the different views but it also adds the “from_store” parameter. It seems that SEO guys don’t like this too much. If you need to remove it, search on your theme templates for the “select_language” string. Usually, Read more…
One of my first tasks on my new job is to migrate a Magento Community Edition to the Enterprise one. There is no too much information on the Internet about how to proceed with this kind of task. That’s the reason I write this post. First step: moving the old Read more…
When I changed the URI to access to my dashboard, when I logged in again, there was a 404 error on the admin dashboard. It seems is something related to permissions and can be easily solved executing the following commands: If this doesn’t work, maybe the login form is not Read more…
Even though Magento comes with many options that let us configure a lot of parameters depending on the Store View, there is no way to tier the price depending on the Store View. The solution for this is setting up different client groups.