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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 […]

Optgroup in Magento

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 […]

Root Category in Magento

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 […]

Empty Cart in Magento

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 […]

Filters in Query in Magento

Hello All, When we are filtering data in Magento, time occurs when we want to fetch result after filters like Not equal, greater than, less than, etc. The addFieldToFilter method’s second parameter is used for this. It supports an alternate syntax where, instead of passing in a string, you pass in a single element Array. […]

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