Monthly Archives: July 2010

Magento: Adminhtml Template Fallback Bug

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Josh Pratt

I discovered an interesting bug with the adminhtml templates today. When we deployed a site to the server, while trying to not deploy the media/ directory, we also left out the app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/media/ directory. First sign that something was wrong was … Continue reading →

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Google Apps & Webdav Calendar Urls

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Josh Pratt

I have been using Google Calendar for a while for my personal calendars and have been using them through iCal. Google’s instructions on how to set that up is to use Webdav and to enter the following url: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[your Google … Continue reading →

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Magento Development: How to Best Use Google

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Josh Pratt

I had a friend ask me today how to charge tax on shipping in Magento based on different rules than the rules they setup for their taxable goods. I actually wasn’t sure as I haven’t yet had a client that … Continue reading →

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Magento: Functionality Wish List Page

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Josh Pratt

I decided that it was time to start keeping track of what missing functionality in Magento is most wanted. I created a new page (which you should see in the navigation under the header of the site) to start keeping … Continue reading →

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Magento: Add Shipping Method to Sales Order Grid

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Josh Pratt

If you want to add the shipping method to a column in your admin sales order grid, create a module to override app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php and add the following code to the _prepareColumns() method wherever you want the column to be: $this->addColumn(’shipping_description’, … Continue reading →

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Magento: Manually Getting Magento Error Trace

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Josh Pratt

I am working on a module right now that is supposed to email me the details of any errors that happen in Magento (errors that throw the Magento error screen, and output a trace of the error). Getting the error … Continue reading →

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RSS Feed: New Feed for New Website

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Josh Pratt

With the launch of the new website also comes the launch of a new RSS feed. For those of you who are subscribed to my old feed, please be sure to update it to the new. The link is now … Continue reading →

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Magento: Importing Customer Street Addresses

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Josh Pratt

One thing that you’ll notice if you export your customers out of Magento is that it combines the street1 and street2 columns into one for the shipping and billing addresses. The columns are called ‘billing_street_full’ and ‘shipping_street_full’. If you then … Continue reading →

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