How to install and run the Magento Test Automation Framework
TestingSeleniumMagentoLinux Every programmer knows the only one way to make sure you get some sleep is to write software that never breaks (or rarely!). When a project gets large enough, it becomes...
View ArticleA Shopaholics analysis of Magento eCommerce sites
Magento blogMagentoLet’s be clear about one thing, I’m not a developer but I’m a great online shopper. I don’t know much about the software behind an online e-boutique, but I know straight away what I...
View ArticleThe three M's of ecommerce – More Money, Market Reach and Motivated Customers
MagentoE-commerceDogHouseMagento blogMoving your business online doesn’t just help increase your revenue, it allows you to reach a potentially global market while providing invaluable market research...
View ArticleCreating Product Attributes in Magento.
Product attributesMagentoEntity Attribute Value modelMagento blogAn EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value model), or an object-attribute-value model works very well for sorting product attributes at the back end...
View ArticleMagento: Change Cart Item Renderer Dynamically
MagentoOne cool feature of magento is the ability to display (or render) different product types differently in the cart, and in the checkout items review. This is simply done by the appropriate item...
View ArticleMagento: Improve performance by selective events.
MagentoMagento’s complexity brings one major downfall: speed. An easy way to help around this issue is to properly code your observers for events to the appropriate area, that being ‘global’,...
View ArticleUsing dataflow to import custom data
MagentoWhat is this, and why should you care?"Dataflow" is the Magento subsystem devoted to importing and exporting data. It has adapters available for CSV, XML and FTP, and supports Products and...
View ArticleMagento: Adding a message to a product during purchase
MagentoThis article explains how you can add a message to a specific product and have magento’s core display the message in all areas related to the product. First some background. Magento handles item...
View ArticleDebugging PayPal IPN postback failures in Magento
PayPalPayment GatewayMagentoDebuggingToday I found the solution to an interesting problem we were having for couple of days with a client e-commerce site running Magento Enterprise 1.12.0.2.Every now...
View ArticleInjecting User based permissions into Magento's ACL
PHPMagentoCode SnippetsZend FrameworkACLIn some cases you'll want to give specific permissions to an admin user without using a role or group. Or you might want to give a user permissions to a specific...
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