There are times when we need to use the admin access to execute tasks. For example you want to call admin URLs etc. There is a simple way to do that, you need to change the current store to admin store.
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Get all product attributes in Magento
Hello All, I am writing here a simple but important code snippet for getting all the existing product attributes
Get creditcard type in Magento
Hello All, I am writing here a script snippet for getting the credit card type used in the order
Get customer order count in Magento
Hello All, I am writing here a script snippet for getting the orders count for given customer
Product Quantities Ordered in Magento
I am explaining here the way to display the total quantities ordered in the Product view page. I have used Magento version 1.7.0.2 1) Block file Create a file app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/View/Quantity.php (note the codepool is ‘local’ ) Copy this code in the file and save the file. 2) View File Create a file app/code/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/view/quantity.phtml I have […]
Directory paths in Magento
Hello All, I am writing here the code to get various base directory paths, which might be useful. Assuming the directory is named ‘magento’ where your site is present and its the root directory of the filesystem.
Order State and Status in Magento
Many of you might have come across the requirement, where they needed to change the order status dynamically. Difference between order state and status State is used by Magento to tell if the order is new, processing, complete, holded, closed, canceled etc.; while Statuses are the one that YOU would be defining at the back-end […]
First and Last collection item in Magento
We the Magento developers work mostly with data collections. For accessing the data we use ‘foreach’ to iterate over collection. What if we need only the first or last item from the collection, Magento gives an alternate way to do this. If you your Collection data as XML, There’s a method for that also If […]
Get database connection details in Magento
I am writing here an important code snippet for getting the database connection details used in Magento
Get table prefix in Magento
Hello All, I am writing here an important code snippet for getting the table prefix (if any defined) in Magento.