In the previous article we have described how the different settings can be applied to a custom extension. There’s nothing difficult for the simple settings such as text field or text area. But, if you look at the drop down, multiselect or editable items list you’ll notice that these items have additional fields, e.g. source_model, backend_model, frontend_model. Let’s focus on these models and find out more info about creating settings that require data models.

From time to time  Magento developers face with a need to add settings for their extensions. As it’s hard to remember all necessary details for each setting, so we would like to share our snippets which contain xml code of the most recent settings used in Magento admin.

In the previous articles (1, 2) you might find the way how to add custom column/attribute to adminhtml (orders, customers, ect) grid. But this is another example. In our article we will use the layout handles for inserting columns to the orders grid.

Magento 1.7 came with a lot of changes and new features – one substantial module that was added by default is captcha. So, we would like to shed the light on this amazing feature. You know how many robots/spam bots browse the internet searching unprotected forms. Argh.. Therefore, if you have opened form for unregistered users you need to protect it with captcha to avoid spam attacks :)

There are many tools in Magento which allow you to view or generate and download different reports. So, we can conclude that Magento system has integrated tools for CSV and XML files generation. It might help in the situation when you need to generate a report for some feed or just export a list of structured data. We would like to demonstrate the small example that adds an ability to generate and download CSV files.
Let’s assume that you have already created your custom extension and wish to add a CSV export functionality. If it’s not the case and you can’t guess how to create an extension, then you can always find the light in our previous articles, for example this one. We called our extension Atwix_Tweaks so in the code examples below we will use this title.

Many of you have used adminhtml.xml file to define menu items for a module in Magento backend. In this article we would like to highlight ACL features which allow us to fine-grant specific actions to be used by a privileged roles.

If you are developer, adding custom product attribute to quote and order items in Magento is pretty common task. And if you face with the same issue we will be very glad when you find this article helpful.

Hi friends, my previous article has been written about email sending feature in Magento, and you can read it here. But it seems that we have one more issue – how to display collections/arrays data in the email templates. We’ll try to shed the light on this below.

In this article we would like to show you how to add a new custom category attribute in Magento 1. For doing this in Magento 2, read this post. Let’s say, this attribute is needed to display some content on the category page.

In previous articles we told you how to operate with columns in adminhtml grids. Usually the process is quite fast, for example, if you want to add simple column from the database. But sometimes you need to add a column with complex value, processed by renderer. You say: “it’s not a big deal to use renderers…” Right, until you face with sort and filter..