Ever since I started programming in Magento/PHP, I had the need to find Magento blogs with useful tips and up-to-date information (Magento changes very quickly along with how things have to be done with it as well). After almost two years I’ve only found a few blogs that are up Read more…
Usually I’ve been asked about how to run a cron task manually. A cron task defined in Magento is not anything else than a function that belongs to a model that is loaded and executed. For example, we have this cron task on a config.xml file of a specific module: Read more…
During the past days we have had some problems when updating our Magento custom modules. Oddly, even though we created the mysql4-upgrade file and edited the config.xml with the new version, the upgrade script wouldn’t run. Why? We don’t know. But we needed a quick solution because there was an Read more…
By default, Magento shows the store that has been configured «by default». Adding browser language auto-detection is pretty easy editing the Magento index.php file. We just need to check what’s the user browser main language and then try to load the store that uses that code. It’s important to note Read more…
A few days ago we tried to install and set Solr as a Magento default search system. We run into a weird problem: once we checked that Solr was working we enabled it in Magento. Everything seemed to work well: when reindexing products the log would show the changes and Read more…
If you want to programmatically update product prices per website (this means that you have many websites and have set a website scope for price in the configuration), then you can use this script: public function updateProductPrices ($sku, $newPrice) { Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID); $websites = Mage::app()->getWebsites(); $product = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’) $productId = $product->getIdBySku($sku); Read more…
At this moment we’re working on 3 projects, all of them require a category list with products that are only configurable and the customer has to be able to choose the options from the configurable and add it directly to the cart without going to the product page. Step by Read more…
If you want to create new order statuses (not states) and assign them to a particular state you need to use the sales/order_status model. It’s pretty easy: $status = Mage::getModel(‘sales/order_status’); $status->setStatus(‘status_code’); $status->setLabel(‘status_label’); Then you can assign the state with the assignState method: $status->assignState(‘processing’); $status->save();
Working with tier prices programmatically in Magento is somewhat tricky. I found a couple of annoying bugs or behaviors that really got me stuck. I’ll speak about that at the end of this post. Update: Our colleague Josh found how to solve this issue by rewriting a core module. Take a Read more…
Here are a few tips to take into account if you want to start developing with Magento.