Category Archives: Magento

I learned a valuable lesson this weekend (the hard way of course) when it comes to event observers in Magento. You’ve got 3 different places to setup your event observers in your config.xml file of your modules. They are as … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a new module today, and I needed to modify a couple different adminhtml templates. So, I did what I usually do and put the following code in my config.xml: <config> … <stores> <admin> <design> <package> <name>default</name> … Continue reading →

I was working with a friend yesterday who was working on a website that used a lot of grouped products, but also had the need to be able to edit orders in Magento. The bummer thing about Magento and editing … Continue reading →

I can’t say it enough: If you are working on Magento programming, you have a gold mine right in front of your face. The best way to create new functionality for Magento is to create a module. But that begs … Continue reading →

I am in the process of building a module with a custom interface for some custom data. One thing that it has to do is have the ability to upload an image for each record, very similar to uploading an … Continue reading →

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 →