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Introduction to Magento
Current magento version – 1.3.2.4 This is a very brief introduction to Magento, a powerful php based open-source e-commerce platform. I am currently working on my first ever Magento project, and given...
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Magento – url functions
Current magento version – 1.3.2.4 Magento had some very handy functions that easily allow you to find some fundamental urls of your site from your phtml files so you can avoid hardcoding them. These...
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Magento – using jQuery
Current magento version – 1.3.2.4 jQuery is my favoured javascript library. It is the one I use most so it’s familiar and I can develop quickly with it. Magento however relies heavily on a mix of...
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Magento – changing the root folder after install
Current magento version – 1.3.2.4 I’m guessing that quite a few people will have done what I did when I initially set up Magento, which was to just move the magento folder into my required document...
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Coding standards
First off let me apologise if this turns into a little bit of a rant from me but this is a pet topic of mine so I could be liable to go off on one. I’ve also just been working on a project that has...
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PHP Rounding Issue
So today I came across a wierd rounding issue in PHP, where the round function was just not returning the result that I was expecting. It seemed to be rounding the value down rather than up. Passing a...
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jQuery slideToggle and ie7
I had an interesting issue where in ie7, the element that I was displaying using the jQuery slideToggle function, would seem to jump out of place once the animation had finished. As I was displaying a...
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Magento payment broken continue button
Current magento version: 1.4.1.1 We recently upgraded a magento site to version 1.4.1.1 as part of moving the site to a new server. Everything seemed to run smoothly with no issues, job done. However...
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Magento – product zoom for tall thin images
Current version : 1.4.2.0 While reworking a 1.3.2.3 magento template to work for magento 1.4, I had an issue on a product page where a tall thin image was not being resized correctly by the product...
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Add structured data to your html content
Structured data markup for html has been around for a while, but it can be confusing and isn’t always seen as a priority to implement. Its usage by the big search engines and other organisations is...
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