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Manage Customer Attributes
· Jeremy Champion
From the start Magento has included the ability to modify product attributes through an interface in the administration panel. With Enterprise Edition 1.9, you …
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(Re)sending Magento order emails
· Andrew Dubbeld
I recently had a need to resend Magento order confirmation emails for orders placed within a particular time period. Magento provides an interface for resending …
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Banners and the Banner Rotator Widget
· Peter Spiller
Banners are a relatively new CMS feature of Magento Enterprise Edition that allow administrators to create, organise and display promotional content. In the …
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Adding a step to the Onepage Checkout
· Jeremy Champion
The default Magento onepage checkout includes six steps for the customer to complete. However, sometimes you may have a requirement to create an extra checkout …
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Magento Session Fixation Workaround
· Lloyd Hazlett
Earlier versions of Magento were susceptible to a form of session fixation vulnerability, which can have quite serious consequences even without anyone trying …
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Customise Magento Checkout Success Page Based On Payment Type
· Denis Margetic
The Magento order process completes with an order success page confirming that the order has been received and displaying the order number. This poses a problem …
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Automatically set Magento customer group
· Jeremy Champion
A commonly used Magento feature is the ability to place customers into different customer groups. These customer groups can then be used in a number of ways, …
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Extending the Magento web services API
· Peter Spiller
First of all, you need to find the Magento core file that provides the API method you want to extend. These are generally in model files called Api.php or under …
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Direct SQL queries in Magento
· Chris Norton
This quick guide will explain how to properly access the Magento database using custom defined read and write connections following best practice, ensuring …
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Displaying Magento custom product attributes on the frontend
· Denis Margetic
The simplest way to display custom attributes is to enable them on product view pages, where they normally show up as a table. Design files can be edited to …
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