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Magento Lowest Price for a Configurable Product

Jason — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:38:41 +0000

Magento 1.9 CE Sometimes we want to display a price from field for Magento configurable products, advertising the lowest price for that product. The challenge is that a configurable product is made up of the child products it contains, and we’ll need to check each child product’s price and compare them to get the lowest […]

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Custom Store View Selector For Magento Scripts

Jason — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:54:52 +0000

Magento CE 1.7.0.2 Magento offers an excellent store view selector which is easy to hook into for custom module development. I wrote an article on that over here. However, today I needed to add a store view selector to a custom script for Magento that interfaces with the store database. Don’t ask. So I wrote […]

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Magento Get Category List As Admin Select

Jason — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:06:23 +0000

Magento CE 1.8.0.0 Sometimes we want to retrieve a list of all categories on site to populate a select input field in admin. Here’s one way this can be achieved. I’m assuming we have a custom module called My_Module in the community folder. File: app/code/community/My/Module/Helper/Data.php 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728... public function getAllCategoriesArray($optionList = false) { $categoriesArray […]

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Add Store View Selector To Your Magento Module

Jason — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:18:11 +0000

Magento CE 1.7.0.2 The store view selector is a very useful feature in Magento. It’s very easy to hook into this functionality for addition in your own modules. Let’s do it. Database Field To start, we need a field in our database which will hold the stores data. This will be in the form of […]

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Magento Admin Routers 404 Error – The Ultimate Fix

Jason — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:37:58 +0000

Magento CE 1.7.0.2 Ultimate fix, you say? Well, after trying every Google result I could find and gaining an education on Alan Storm’s awesome blog, this is what worked for me in the end. The Problem I’m building a custom module (extension, if you prefer). I want to have a new admin menu item, pointing […]

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