Playing with Dates in Magento

Playing with Dates in Magento

Introduction Being a PHP developer, you are no way hiding from PHP’s date() function. In case of Magento, it makes use of timezone which is configured from the backend (System > Configuration > General > Locale Options > Timezone) for formatting/displaying date/time. And this makes the results obtained with the PHP’s date() function and the …

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Unzipping archive files in Linux

Extracting archive file depends on the type. Here goes the list of extracting/unzipping command for various archive types: 1> Unzipping .zip file unzip filename.zip 2> Unzipping .tar file tar -xvf filename.tar 3> Unzipping .tar.gz or .tgz file tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz tar -zxvf filename.tgz 4> Unzipping .gz file gunzip file.gz 5> Unzipping .bz2 file bunzip2 file.bz2 …

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Updating product qty in Magento in an easier & faster way

Updating product qty/stock in Magento

Introduction Product Qty can be updated via default import profile though but this is very slow and requires lots of CSV fields(besides SKU & qty) for updating. Today I am going to talk about updating product qty just by using CSV with two fields: SKU & qty(new) which is very fast enough even for thousands …

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