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Custom Magento error page
· Chris Norton
Sometimes, the unthinkable happens and an error occurs in your Magento system, causing everything to come grinding to a halt. Magento handles this by displaying …
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Preventing PO Box shipping addresses
· Denis Margetic
Recently, I wrote a blog post about preventing PO box customer addresses being registered at checkout. Following on from that post, I was asked a rather …
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Magento CMS static blocks
· Peter Spiller
Static blocks in Magento are a useful way of making elements of your site easily configurable by administrators. If you have sidebar blocks, headers or other …
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Magento on the Mac
· Denis Margetic
Magento is a web-based application, and therefore Magento development is thankfully not limited to any particular platform or operating system. As a Mac user I …
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Debugging Magento with Xdebug
· Peter Spiller
Diagnostic print_r statements and logging might be quick and easy tools for investigating what Magento is doing, but a full debugger offers a lot more power and …
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Customised Magento review summary
· Denis Margetic
There is little doubt that product reviews are popular with online shoppers, and are playing an increasingly important role in purchasers' buying decisions. …
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Magento debugging - loading blocks, layouts and config files
· Peter Spiller
Occasionally I've needed to take a closer look at exactly which block, layout or config file is being loaded by Magento. In this post I will demonstrate a …
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Definitive Magento installation guide
· Denis Margetic
While getting started with Magento some time ago, I thought it would be a good idea to write a post that started at the beginning: how to install it. Reading …
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API product IDs vs SKUs
· Peter Spiller
The Magento web services API is quite flexible - a lot of the time, it can either take an ID (like a product ID) or a more human-readable identifier (like a …
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Web services API filter operators
· Peter Spiller
Many of the Magento web services API methods facilitate listing certain types of data - customers, products, orders, etc. However, when using these methods we …
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