Archive for the ‘Magento eCommerce Tips’ Category
Posted by on 06 Jul 2010 by
anishkumard in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/how-to-set-shipping-options-for-customers-during-checkout’,size:’large’} First,Login as admin and in the admin Home Page select System ->Configuration.
Under the Configuration tab on the left Side Select Shipping Settings.Here you can Find two options Origin and Options.From that you Can Change Settings Such as Country,Regional,etc.
Now Select Shipping Methods next to Shipping Settings.Under that you can find [...]
Posted by on 14 Apr 2010 by
gayatri.sa in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/magento-write-custom-log-messages’,size:’large’} A quick debugging tip for developers. You can write custom messages into Magento’s system log or exception log – helpful for knowing the current variable or object state etc.
How to enable log
Admin > System > Configuration > Developer > Log Settings
Set “Enabled” to “Yes”
Code to write into the log
Mage::log(“Hello”);
Mage::log(“Hello [...]
Posted by on 12 Mar 2010 by
sanjeev in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/how-to-give-custom-options-for-a-product-in-magento’,size:’large’} In this article I want to give some custom options to my product named “Linux”
Select Product from Catalog -> Manage Products
On the Left side you can take “Custom Options” inside “Product Information”
Click on the button “Add New Option”
You can give as follows:
Title : Company
Input Type : Drop Down
Is Required [...]
Posted by on 08 Mar 2010 by
gayatri.sa in
Magento eCommerce Tips,
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento_ecommerce_tips/magento-enable-contact-form-add-custom-field-link-to-top-menu’,size:’large’} How to enable the default Magento contact form?
System > Configuration > Contacts
Click the ‘Contact Us’ section on this page. Set ‘Enable Contact Us’ to ‘Yes’
Click the ‘Email Options’ section on the same page, just under it. Set the email address to which the comments should come, subject and email [...]
Posted by on 12 Feb 2010 by
Ajith in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/magento-problem-with-logging-into-admin-section-after-fresh-installation’,size:’large’} Try the following steps,
1. Try accessing your admin using your ip (if it is localhost, try 127.0.0.1).
2. If you cant get around with the above step then as a last step try the following,
Navigate within your Magento database to the MySQL table core_config_data and look for a row with [...]
Posted by on 04 Feb 2010 by
Ajith in
Magento eCommerce Tips,
XAMPP
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/xampp/magento-fatal-error-while-installing’,size:’large’} I got the following fatal error while trying to intall Magento 1.3.2.4 in XAMPP 1.7.3
Fatal error: Method Varien_Object::__tostring() cannot take arguments in C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\lib\Varien\Object.php on line 488
Follow the steps given below to fix this issue:-
1)File: /lib/Varien/Object.php (Line 484)
Change from
public function ___toString(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=’,’)
To this
public function __invoke(array $arrAttributes [...]
Posted by on 05 Jan 2010 by
Bindu Anilkumar in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/how-to-setup-a-multiple-currency-magento-shop’,size:’large’} Setting up a Multiple Currency for your Magento Shop is very easy to do. These are the basic steps to do that.
Login as admin and select System->Configuration, then select ’Currency Setup’ fromGENERAL section, then select Base currency, Default display currency, allowed currencies (press Control Key and Click the needed [...]
Posted by on 01 Jun 2009 by
Govind Krishna in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/database-concepts-how-to-write-a-query’,size:’large’} Retrieving database information in Magento can be a bit complicated. Technically it is possible to write raw SQL statements to load entities and all their associated attribute values. However due to the EAV database design it is difficult to write query statements to get exactly what you want. Utilizing [...]
Posted by on 27 May 2009 by
Govind Krishna in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/some-important-functions-getmodel-getdata-getsingleton’,size:’large’} We will be looking into some important methods used frequently in Magento like getModel(), getData(), getSingleton()..
getModel() (To create an instance of a Model class) :
The getModel() function is used to create an instance of a Model class. For example
$Product = Mage::getModel(’catalog/product’);
would basically tell Magento to create an instance of [...]
Posted by on 26 May 2009 by
Rajeev Pillai in
Magento eCommerce Tips
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://sree.cc/magento-ecommerce-tips/how-to-set-minimum-order-amount-in-magento’,size:’large’} Login as admin, then select System->configuration, then select ‘Sales‘ from left Nav and click on ‘Minimum order amount‘.
Then select Yes from Enable dropdown, enter Minimum order amount, enter message and also enter error message that will be shown in shopping cart.