You can find many different tutorials how to customise Contact Us. This one is an alternative to others and we hope this article will be useful, especially people with no programming skills will like it. The main goal of this method is – do not touch file system every time we want to make changes to Contact Us page. Let`s begin.
I think everyone who is interested in ecommerce development get familiar with Magento earlier or later. It’s a very popular platform, where a lot of modern programming technologies are used. Since Magento is one of the most powerful and flexible shopping cart engines, it requires a deep level of expertise to develop extensions or even do some basic changes. So we’ve decided to share our tips for Magento Developers in this article. [Continue to Part 2]
Backend grids in Magento are very convenient, featuring filtering and pagination using AJAX by default. However, when you want to edit some field or record, you have to create a form. I’d like to describe the way of implementing inline field editing for a field.
This article explains how to customize a header of any Magento CMS or Module page without additional Magento theme development.
It is a good idea to create a new layout handle in Magento when we need to be able to easily customize styling of pages or enable/disable specific blocks for the customer groups. Here is how.
This article explains how to customize Magento’s default PDF Invoice or Packingslip, so you will be able to change the layout, customize fonts and other elements.
Sometimes we need to add a custom attribute to a CMS page. I’ll try to describe how we can do this as simply as possible using a custom module with observers.
Magento is a pretty powerful and complex system. It allows to work with massive amounts of data, but when database is overloaded with tons of records it becomes heavy and slow. Magento uses indexes to solve this problem. Indexes are additional database tables with some flat data, which allows to organize fast responses from the database. By default, core system updates indexes on each item’s save. But in some cases you need to do it manually, for example some types of mass actions etc.
As many of you know, at the end of the last year Magento has introduced an opportunity to the developers to confirm and leverage their knowledge of Magento by passing the Magento Developer Certification. Here we’d like to share some thoughts on the preparation process basing on our experience.
So you have added a new custom product attribute. It is not a problem to access and use it in Product View. And you probably know that you should enable it under the attribute settings page of Magento backend in order to make it available for the Product List (or category view) section. But what about checkout/cart area?
