Magento - Creating a Configurable Product

Magento - Creating a Configurable Product

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Silverstripe - User Defined Forms Page Template

Silverstripe - User Defined Forms Page Template

If you are using a the 'UserDefinedForms' module in Silverstripe you can set up a custom page layout just like you would a normal page layout, except you do not need to use a .php file to rebuild the database, instead just add a layout file (.ss) called UserDefinedForm.ss

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Magento - Shipping Table Rates

Magento - Shipping Table Rates

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Notepad ++ DC3

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Silverstripe - Multi Column Layouts

This is awsome to get working. It gives you separate tabs to edit each column, making it easier for the user.

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Silverstripe Tutorials

tutorial 1 - building a basic site
tutorial 2 - extending a basic site
tutorial 3 - forms
tutorial 4 - site search
tutorial 5 - data object relationship management

Magento - Different Languages

If you want to change the language of your site use the procedure below.

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Magento - Changing Page Layouts - XML Locations

Magento - Changing Page Layouts - XML Locations

Product Pages: Catalog.xml - search for "product view"

Other Pages: Page.xml


Recently Viewed Products Sidebar Panel: Reports.xml
Cart/Basket Sidebar Panel: Catalog.xml
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Magento - Shopping Cart price rules

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Magento - Getting jQuery to work with Magento

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Magento - Adding a New CMS page layout

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Magento Adding a link to an auto generated link list (top.links or footer_links)

Magento Adding a link to an auto generated link list (top.links or footer_links)

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How to reorder links in auto generated link lists

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Magento Adding a CSS class to top links, footer links, etc

I'll add my own explaination later.

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Magento Path Hints

Magento Path Hints, displays the blocks in the website template with red outlines and path descriptions

"turn on path hints in magento (admin > system configuration > developer > main website (configuration scope) > template path hints yes"

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CSS Shadows

CSS Shadows

.shadow {
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #555555;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #555555;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #555555;
}

jQuery News Ticker

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Magento Missing HTML Head, Header & Footer in Admin > Design

I'd recently made a change to a magento installation so that I could use custom page layouts. During this I copied a file from a core directory to a local directory:

/app/code/core/Mage/Page/etc/config.xml

to

/app/code/local/Mage/Page/etc/config.xml

I then found out in the CMS is was missing some functionality:

Admin > Configuration > Design > { Missing } Head HTML, Header and Footer

To the regain this functionality, in the core folder above you have to copy both files, config.xml and system.xml over as you are switching the functionality from the core over to the local directory.

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Magento Creating a Configurable Product

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Magento Referencing a Static Block in a *.phtml file

use this snippet of code replacing 'IDENTIFIER' with the ID of your Static Block:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('INDENTIFIER')->toHtml() ?>

Reference in XML

XML Ref

<block type="cms/block" name="**REFERENCED IN phtml**">

<action method="setBlockId"><block_id>**STATIC BLOCK ID**</block_id></action>

</block>
phtml Ref
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('**REFERENCED IN phtml**') ?>

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Magento Referencing a *.phtml file in the CMS or using XML and php

 In CMS:

{{block type=”core/template” name=”top_static_links” template=”page/template/top_static_links.phtml”}}

In XML and php:

XML component:

<block type="core/template" name="top_static_links" template="page/template/top_static_links.phtml"/>

php component:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('top_static_links'); ?>

Just a php Call - NOT RECOMMENDED!

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('videoBannerStaticBlock')->toHtml() ?>

jQuery Image Rotator

jQuery image Rotator tutorial by DreamweaverTutorial.co.uk.

Part 1 and Part 2

Magento linking to a CMS created page in the CMS

If you're looking to link to a CMS page using Magento's page editor, in the CMS, use this bit of code in the a href swapping out the "about-us" for the page identifier:

{{store direct_url="about-us"}}

example:
<a href="{{store direct_url="about-us"}}">About Us</a>

If you are linking to a Category, add .html to the end of the identifier.