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For a module I was working on in one of my project, I needed to display a select box, with optgroup, Magento has inbuilt function for this. Kindly go through this post Select Box in Magento of mine for understanding how to generate select box before reading forward. For option group you need to pass the ‘value’ also as an array. Suppose your Category name is ‘Furniture’ and...

There is an Event-Observer methodology used in Magento, Magento has been programmed to raise events in crucial areas of the flow. We can use these events for our requirement. I am describing here a way to use it. An example would be the event ‘checkout_onepage_controller_success_action’ (this has been use by me at many instances) which will be raised by Magento immediately after an order...

I am writing here a code snipet for fetching the name (alias) used to access admin end, which is set to ‘admin’ by default <?php echo Mage::getConfig()->getNode('admin/routers/adminhtml/args/frontName'); ?> Below code for creating an admin URL <?php $hlpr = Mage::helper("adminhtml"); $params = array('v'=>1,'pv'=>2); echo $url = $hlpr->getUrl('*/sales_order/',$params); ?>

In one of my post I explained the basics of SOAP API, please refer Magento SOAP API before proceeding further I am listing here the methods to create Categories and Products using SOAP API 1) Category a) Category Creation <?php $category_name = 'Test Category'; //create new category //start $category = array( 2, array('name'=>$category_name, 'display_mode' => PRODUCTS_AND_PAGE, 'is_anchor'...

These days I am working on Payment Module. I am writing here the code which is useful and related to Payment module 1) To fetch the existing Payment Methods There is a payment module helper file existing in default Magento, which is really very helpful. Path – app/code/core/Mage/Payment/Helper/Data.php <?php $payment_helper = Mage::helper('payment'); $method_list = $payment_helper->getPaymentMethodList(); echo...

I am writing here a small but useful snippet of code, for getting the table name of any module (whose table name are defined in config file). This is very useful when using joins in query. Suppose my module is ‘vendor’. <?php $resource = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource'); $tableName = $resource->getTableName('vendor/vendor'); ?>

Hello All, I am posting here code for fetching website information from Store Group Id. Also useful code showing relations between Stores, Groups and Websites. < ?php $store_id = 1; //your required store Id will go here $store_model = Mage::getModel('core/store'); //store model $store_group_model = Mage::getModel('core/store_group'); //store group model $website_model = Mage::getModel('core/website');...

In Magento, products are assigned to Website, though we can disable the product in independent store, but this is very lengthy procedure as you need to edit each and every products. So I came up with the solution to restrict the display of categories and products, though if you assign different Root Catalog to different store, Magento will display the categories as per the stores but not products as...

I am explaining here the way to add a Profit column in Order grid seen in admin-end This column will show the profit gained per order (i.e, the difference between Cost and Selling Price) 1) Copy the app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php file to app/code/local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php, by maintaining the directory structure 2) There is a protected function _prepareColumns,...

In one of my project, I needed to explicity delete the items from cart after order placed. You can also use this script for making a functionlity for giving an option for empting the cart at once from cart page. Here is the script for the same. Place it in function ‘successAction’ in app\code\local\Mage\Checkout\controllers\OnepageController.php (copy this file from app\code\core\Mage\Checkout\controllers\OnepageController.php) /** ...