Introduction Netbeans is my favorite IDE for PHP/Magento development. And one of the great feature provided by Netbeans is Macros Here I will share some tips on how to leverage the power of Macros for Magento templating. Importing Macros 1. Download the Macros zip file from [here] 2. Open Netbeans IDE. Go to the menu: …
Introduction Just keep reading this tutorial which will teach how to create a fancy FAQ with an expandable/collapsible feature in an easier approach. In short, creating a fancy FAQ section can be easily achieved in Magento by using CMS page & jQuery. Steps Go to Admin > CMS Pages > Add New Page and implement …
Scenario Suppose say we have an array of data fetched from the database. And we want to merge it with Magento collection object or want to provide the data as collection object to the view(template) file. Solution <?php $resource = Mage::getModel(‘core/resource’); $connection = $resource->getConnection(‘core_read’); $sql = “SELECT * FROM custom_table WHERE some_field = ?”; $rows …
Introduction Nowadays most of the clients want extra fields in contacts form of Magento to fulfill their requirements. And adding custom fields other than upload field (for example text, textarea, select, etc) in the contact form are easy in the sense you can easily include the field values in the contact email template. But adding …
Introduction As you know in Magento, the catalog has a dynamic menu but cms don’t in frontend.If you are curious about how to create a dynamic menu for CMS which can either be included in the left or right sidebar for all CMS pages, then you are in right place. Steps 1. Create navigation.phtml fileCreate …