Jason | 31st October 2013
Magento CE 1.8.0.0 I recently needed to build the full URL for Magento from a relative path. I wrote this little function for my helper and I thought someone else might want to use it. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829public function buildFullPathUrl($path,$type) { $relative = ltrim($path, ‘/’); switch ($type) { case […]
Jason | 22nd October 2013
Magento 1.8.0.0 CE This is actually really easy to do. Why this still isn’t part of Magento out-of-the-box beggars belief, but I guess they have their reasons. First, copy the menu phtml file to your own theme folder. The original is located at app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/html/topmenu.phtml. Now let’s add our link, with ‘active’ state support. By default, […]
Jason | 8th October 2013
Magento CE 1.8.0.0 Alpha, Nginx 1.4.2, PHP-FPM 5.5.4 I had to pluck up the courage to dump Apache in favour of Nginx as my Magento server. By the way, Nginx is pronounced ‘Engine X’. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apache. The guys behind it are pioneers and the Apache server currently delivers about 3 […]
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