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Hello, I am explaining here the method for sending custom emails using the custom email templates with variables. 1) Create an email template from Admin-end > System > Transactional Emails, for example lets put this as Template Content <!--@vars { "htmlescape var=$customer.name":"Customer Name", "var customer.email":"Customer Email" } @--> Dear {{htmlescape...

I am listing here the codes useful in Magento Magento Home URL - Mage::getBaseUrl(); Magento Home Directory - Mage::getBaseDir(); URL of a file in the skin directory - $this->getSkinUrl(‘images/myfile.png’); // in a template or Block - Mage::getDesign()->getSkinUrl(‘images/myfile.png’); // from anywhere Format a price value - Mage::helper(‘core’)->formatPrice($amount); Get...

I am listing here a simple example to explain ‘passing by reference’ in PHP. I hope it is helpful. <?php $a = 5; echo 'A1->'.$a.'<br/>'; $b = 6; $a =& $b; echo 'A2->'.$a.'<br/>B1->'.$b.'<br/>'; global $var; function foo(&$var) { $var++; } $a=5; echo 'A3->'.$a.'<br/>'; foo($a); echo 'A4->'.$a.'<br/>Var->'.$var; ?> For...

I am listing here method for reading XML file or XML string with the help of PHP. <?php $xml =<<<EOT <?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <section name="Section1"> <category id="Category1" name="google"> <article name="article1">value1</article> </category> <category id="Category2"...

In Magento eCommerce while working with catalog model, There arise the need to fetch product details from product id. We can get all product details if we have product id. But sometimes we only have product name, so we need to get product id for getting product details. I am listing here both the method. 1) Product details from Product ID. <?php $model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product') //getting...

This is small but very useful script. I have shown example for extracting only ‘src’ value from the ‘img’ tag, but you can modify and use as per your requirement using ‘preg_match_all’ function. <?php $src= '<img height="120" width="120" border="0" src="http://www.somesite.com/abc.jpg" class="image"/>'; preg_match_all('/(src)=("[^"]*")/i',$src,...

I have written a script for getting the files list from directory and redirecting the page on selecting option from the select box. So you will get the script for fetching all the files from current directory and redirecting page on selection. <h>Please select option</h> <?php $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //current directory physical path $dir_handle =...

Many times we need the IP Address of the User visiting our website in our Application. I am listing here the method to get the User IP Address, hope it might be useful to many of you. //function for getting IP //start function getuserip() { if (isset($_SERVER)) { if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"])) return $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]; ...

Joomla is a very great CMS. I am listing below important variable used in joomla. JPath is used to get the directory path. DS — is used as a directory separator. JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR– Sets the path to /Joomla/administrator JPATH_BASE — sets the entry to joomla /Joomla JPATH_CACHE –Sets the cache path /Joomla/cache JPATH_COMPONENT — Sets the component path /Joomla/components/com_example JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR...

I am listing below important variable used in Magento. <?php echo Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getHttpHost(); //displays host name echo Mage::getBaseDir(); //gives physical path of the sites root directory echo $this->getSkinURL(); //gives relative path of the sites default skin folder echo Mage::getBaseURL(); //gives relative path of the site echo Mage::getURL();...