In the Magento administration, when you want to list your products, you see a GridView (a kind of table with which can be sorted, edit an article, delete etc …) and you’ll say that it could be nice to use the same in our module. In this tutorial we’ll see how to insert a GridView in the administration part of our Magento plugin.

A Magento Grid is constructed from a set of files that you will find in the file Block/Adminhtml from your module.

1 – The Grid Container

Create a folder: \app\code\local\Pfay\Test\Block\Adminhtml\ and put in a file Grid.php. This is the file which (as its name suggests) will contain your Grid. It contains:

1. <?php
2. class Pfay_Test_Block_Adminhtml_Grid extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Container
3. {
4.     public function __construct()
5.     {
6.      //where is the …

Hat man eine eigenen Extension erstellt, weiß man nie so genau ob diese auch wirklich kompatibel ist und eine gute Qualität hat. Netresearch hat jetzt das Online-Tool Judge bereit gestellt, mit dem man seine Extension testen kann.

Judge ist ein Werkzeug zur Überprüfung von Magento-Erweiterungen im Hinblick auf ihre Kompatibilität und Qualität. Es enthält Tests für die von Kommentar-Rate, Magento Coding Style, CodeCoverage, Kern-Hacks, Performance-Probleme, Rewrites von Controllern / Helfern / models / Blöcke, Sicherheitskontrollen, Quellcode Komplexität und vieles mehr. Nach der Auswertung erhalten Sie auf einen vollständigen technischen Bericht für ihre eingereichte Erweiterung. Judge ist noch im experimentellen Stadium, ist aber ein guter Ansatz um es weiterzuentwickeln.

Wir haben kurzerhand mal eine Extension hochgeladen, um zu sehen was das…

Facebook is a great social media marketing tool, first goal – get those likes. Second goal, improve your Edgerank to reach more customers with your meaningful Social Media content.

You thought that Googles Pagerank was complicated, read on…

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Over the course of our experience, we've found there are generally two types of merchants: those who understand the importance of design and those who will. Site design—which encompasses visual design, user experience, and even content—helps to implicitly and explicitly establish customer trust. It helps define your brand and differentiate it from the competition, and there's no shortage of that. To help merchants get the most out of their Magento Enterprise Edition investment, we've put together a list of some key areas for you to consider when building or upgrading your eCommerce channel.

Custom Interface Design One of our favorite aspects of Magento Enterprise Edition is the complete control the platform offers in terms of…

Depending of what merchandise your shop specializes in, you may need different product types. The basic, simple product type logic is straightforward: a product has a price, it has product information like pictures and descriptions, it has inventory that can be linked to a warehouse management system. Products of this type can be placed into a shopping cart, paid, packed and sent. But it is not always that simple. You may need products that are not physical, but are files that can be downloaded by customers who bought them. Your products may be still physical, but consist of several options, which customers must choose from before adding their chosen combination to the shopping cart. Several simple products could be grouped together and sold as a single one. Or a product may be just an entry in your catalog whose details page has a link redirecting to the shop of your partner. We are talking about product types that have certain behaviour and require functionality sometimes similar…

If you have recently upgraded your Magento store and you are not able to login to your admin panel, that means the database has got messed up a bit.

Here is the fix. Goto phpmyadmin and run this command :

1. SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
2. UPDATE `core_store` SET store_id = 0 WHERE code=’admin’;
3. UPDATE `core_store_group` SET group_id = 0 WHERE name=’Default’;
4. UPDATE `core_website` SET website_id = 0 WHERE code=’admin’;
5. UPDATE `customer_group` SET customer_group_id = 0 WHERE customer_group_code=’NOT LOGGED IN’;
6. SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

Magento Tutorial now will show you a solution for a Magento problem. When you imported products for your Magento site. Somehow, all products do not use default settings for inventory anymore. Each product has its own configuration for inventory, like below picture:

In this case, it causes some problems for his site when creating orders in back-end. It will displays this error message: “The stock item for Product is not valid.”

It is easy to solve the problem. We just need to update these products to “use configure settings”. But how long will it take if you have to update each product when you have some thousands. Luckily, we can use…

There are more and more online stores choosing Magento as their base for their site. So Mageto has strongly developed in these  competitive times. To day, Magento Tutorial will bring you the advantages of Magento in shopping trend in 2013.

Magento is an open source platform which makes it flexible to create a fully functional online shopping business at ease. Magento is a very powerful and fast growing eCommerce web application framework in the current trend. It was developed and introduced by Magento Inc, formerly known as Varien. It was completely developed using Zend Framework which works with PHP and MySQL as database.

Paypal revealed on February 2011 that we were the 49% shareholders of Magento Inc. In 6th June 2011, Paypal announced we completely own Magento Inc. Magento allows merchants to build open source eCommerce enabled shopping websites and offers both free open source software and a paid enterprise version. On 2nd February, 2012 Magento…

The 42nd tutorial for Magento Commerce Community Edition and the 18th on Theming Magento. This tutorial shows you how to add the popular jQuery Javascript framework to your site.