Blogposts tagged with: Magento

De afgelopen dagen liep ik tegen een probleem aan waar ik in eerste instantie Aheadworks' Advanced Newsletter de schuld voor gaf. Ik probeerde Magento custom variabelen te gebruiken in emailtemplates, maar bij het previewen in advanced newsletter kreeg ik een blanke pagina voorgeschoteld en bij het verzenden van testemails ontving ik lege mailtjes.

Iedere pagina in de mijn account sectie van Magento beschikt standaard over de volgende html-structuur;

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Wil je de mijn-account pagina's universeel opmaken, dan gebruik je de referentie .my-account. Maak je echter gebruik van third party modules die een pagina aan de mijn account sectie toevoegen, zoals in ons geval aheadWorks RMA, Sweet ToothPoints & Rewards en aheadWorks Advanced Newsletter zul je tot de ontdekking komen dat deze vaak niet dezelfde html-structuur hanteren. Weg universele opmaak!

Google Analytics is a brilliant tool for tracking visits and learning more about your visitors. However, if you want a quick look at your webshops' stats, logging in to your account is quite some hassle. To make things a little easier for you (and, if you are a webdesigner: to make things a little easier for your customers), we've created Analyticsdash; a simple, integrated overview of your most important stats directly accessible from your Magento admin panel.

Every designer or programmer knows how it feels: you are excited about an idea and in your rush to create a proof of concept, you get stuck on some stupid mistake - you otherwise would have never made. I recently had the exact same experience when creating our free BodyClassPlus module; my categories just wouldn't show up in my top navigation. To protect myself (and you) from this to ever happen again, I've created a small comic.

For one of our recent Magento projects, we wanted to use category images and category thumbnails in our navigation (and display them on our frontpage). When you are reading this, you probably already are aware of the fact that Magento doesn't support this by default. In order to make the category images (or thumbnails) show up in top.phtml, we'll have to do some small adjustments to the Navigation Class. This is what I end up creating:

We recently completed a webshop where a considerable number of products had over 20 related products. Normally related products in Magento are displayed in a small box on the right side of the page, but in our case it was important that the related products were presented in the same look and feel as products on a 'normal catalog page'. Moving the related products from the right column to the bottom of the 'product-view-page' was not big of a deal, but creating pagination and display the right product count was quite a challenge. You can see a working example here, here or here and this is how we did it:

For one of our Magento webshops, one of the requirements was that the product feed was imported automatically overnight. This ment that I had to find a way to automate this process, but since Magento doesn't support a non-browser productimport this was easier said then done. After looking for a while, I found the following topic on the magento forums. This looked good, this meant I could use the regular Import/Export profiles and run them in the shell. After investigating a bit further, I discovered I could also use Advanced Import/Export profiles - what was just what I needed. So I set up my Advanced profile (one for importing products, one for importing product relations) and did my first first testrun. Everything went well, but after about 1000 - 2000 products It suddenly crashed: PHP Allowed Memory Size Exchausted Fatal Error. That is just great ...

At some of our Magento projects we were required to create custom pages that contained a large collection of products that meet specific requirements. An example? The € 2, - gadgets page at www.chinese-gadgets.nl/2-euro-gadgets. Because the promotion 'Catalog Price Rules' slow down Magento extremely - and in addition to that would be just a workaround. We have solved this problem by creating a custom block on which we apply our filters directly to the productCollection and calling this block through a simple Layout XML Update on a CMS page.