Articles for the ‘Magentonary’ Category

Template Path Hints

May 13, 10 by lsd No Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magentonary

Magento has a thoughtful feature that can help developers to quickly locate a xml file, a phtml template file, this feature is extremely useful especially for developers who are new to Magento development, as well as Magento store owner who purchased a commercial Magento theme, setup the Magento site by him/herself. To switch on template [...]

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Custom Variables

Apr 2, 10 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer, Magentonary

Custom Variables is one of the features added in Magento v1.4. whether you are a Magento web developer or store owner, you will love this new feature as it takes away the tedious editing in each email template…

mini-search box

May 14, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magentonary

Magento mini-search box By default, mini-search box is placed in the header section. To change mini-search box’s placement to left or right column, simply change <reference name="header"> to <reference name="left"> (or “right”) in catalogsearch.xml <reference name="header"> <block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"/> </reference> To place the mini-search box above everything on the left column, simply add [...]

Magento SKU

May 8, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magentonary

SKU, Stock-keeping unit. By default, not show on front-end. Appear in Sales Order and Invoice. To make it show on product page (view.phtml) or product listing page (list.phtml), insert this code : <?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getSku()) ?>

Flat Catalog

May 8, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magentonary

Introduced in v1.3, come with two features, one is Flat Catalog Product and the other Flat Catalog Category. Known Function: Improve performance for site that has over 1000 products. Possible known symptoms: break thrid-party extension, cause error in custom options. Best information we found on Front Calalog is from this thread by Gabriel Queiroz.