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“Gang of Four” Design Patterns in Magento Core
There are a few very obvious patterns in use in Magento's core, such as:
Singleton
Registry
Event/Observer
Factory
Model/View/Controller
But there are others that may be in use in Magento that I'm ...
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Programmatically Converting Currency
I am trying to convert currency in Magento 1.5 using the following code in a separate file to check currency conversion. I have two stores with respective currency settings in the admin.
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getFinalPrice() on associated simple product returns base price not parent product special price
I have 2 products one is configurable and has a special price of 100 and the associated product has no special price assigned and Final Price is not being returned on the associated product.
I am ...
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How to Programmatically set a Product's Multi-Select Attribute by Labels
If have a multiselect attribute and want to set the selection on a product.
$selectedOptions = "red,green,blue";
$product->..... // # what to do?
How can I do that?
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How to get Discount Percent
I am looking for a way to get the discount percent of an order, possibly from the order class or the invoice class, it would be amazing if
$order->getDiscountPercent();
worked, but it doesn't, ...
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admin sales order total shipment empty
I recently have the problem that the yellow block with the total order on the bottom right of the sale order info page stays empty.
I looked into the files and found out that in ...
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Can't find callbackFunction
I've been looking all over the place and I can't find what this is:
updateCallback : function(elm, status) {
if (typeof elm.callbackFunction != 'undefined') {
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create bundle order programmatically
I have this code: http://pastebin.com/iFwyKM7G
Inside an event-observer class which executes after the customer registered. It creates an order automatically and it works for simple products. ...
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Get new empty item on model method
Collections provide a handy means of getting a blank model - e.g.:
$quote->getItemsCollection()->getNewEmptyItem();
Is there any means of doing this from an existing model without having to ...
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Design Strategy - Helper methods that throw Exceptions
I am implementing a plugin for a client that will use the 'Max Sale Quantity' value of a Magento Stock Item on a product as a means of setting an upper-bound on total customer purchases.
Because I ...
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Returning $this after observer
I see some conflicting information on the internet and in 3rd party modules alike - is it a requirement or best practice to return $this at the end of an observer method?
E.g.:
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Provide properties to views in Magento
In Zend Framework we provide properties to layouts which are then consumed in the view. An example of this would be:
$this->layout = new Zend_Layout();
$this->layout->username = 'John';
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Is it good to instantiate a getModel class on phtml templates?
This is a question regarding a good programming practices in Magento.
I need to show (in the category product list) the product with its related products in thumbnails. So I edited ...
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Is it possible to render a page programmatically via url? [closed]
I am interested in rendering a page programmatically via url so that it is stored in the cache...
Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
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How to remove the Breadcrumbs from the homepage
When Full Page Cache is on the breadcrumbs show up on the home page,
i've tried changing the line <?php if($crumbs && is_array($crumbs)): ?> to <?php if($crumbs && ...
