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Playing with Attribute Set in Magento

May 24, 2019November 18, 2011 by Raj KB

Introduction An attribute set is a collection of attributes which can be created/edited from Catalog -> Manage Attribute Sets in the backend. Some useful snippets regarding Attribute Set. 1> Getting Attribute Set Details $attributeSetModel = Mage::getModel(‘eav/entity_attribute_set’); $attributeSetId = 9; // or $_product->getAttributeSetId(); if you are using product model $attributeSetModel->load($attributeSetId); print_r($attributeSetModel->getData()); 2> Getting Attribute Set Id …

Magento utility function: How to easily create a select box for drop-down attributes?

May 24, 2019November 13, 2011 by Raj KB

From now onward I will be sharing custom utility functions on a regular basis which will make your programming life easier to some extent at least in case of Magento 🙂 Here I am going to share a utility function which will help you to create a select box for drop-down attributes(manufacturer, color, size, etc.) …

Upgrading Magento from 1.6.0.0 to 1.6.1.0 via diff file

June 23, 2019November 10, 2011 by Raj KB

Upgrading in Magento has never been an easy task for me. But this time I successfully upgraded the Magento(from 1.6.0.0 to 1.6.1.0) with minimum no of tries. And I’m going to share the success story 🙂 First, I tried with the following series of SSH commands but unluckily didn’t work for me: rm -rf var/cache …

printing xml of System > Configuration settings in Magento

November 9, 2011 by Raj KB

Magento uses system.xml(app/code/[codePool]/[namespace]/[module]/etc/) for defining configuration section (System > Configuration) in backend. It searches for the file(system.xml) in each module’s /etc folder and merge all those during parsing process. Here i am going to share the code for printing the XML as a result of merging system.xml from all active Magento modules. Code: <?php $mageFilename …