Tag: Magento

Magento – Put Category-IDs into category tree in backend

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To show the category IDs in the category tree under Catalog->Categories->Manage Categories you can rewrite Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Category_Tree in an own module. You have to rewrite the method buildNodeName like this: /** * Get category name * * @param Varien_Object $node * @return string */ public function buildNodeName($node) { $result = $this->escapeHtml($node->getName()); if ($this->_withProductCount) { $result .= ‘ (‘ . $node->getProductCount() […]

Magento – Define default values in config.xml

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You can define system config value defaults in your modules config.xml like that. <?xml version=”1.0″?> <default> <myconfig_group> <settings> <test>1</test> <cronjobs>0</cronjobs> <client>0813</client> <serviceprovider>117</serviceprovider> <pricelist></pricelist> </settings> <productexport> <lux_kategorie>21</lux_kategorie> <store_view_german>1</store_view_german> <store_view_english>12</store_view_english> </productexport> </myconfig_group> </default> This sets the default value for all stores. If you want to set default values for a special store (scope), you can do it […]

Own Router or Controller

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To get an own ActionController that can be called like this: http://www.mysexydomain.de/nicefrontname/nicecontrollerprefix/niceactionprefix/ … you have to add the following snippet into the FE or BE section of your config.xml: <frontend> <routers> <sns_documentmaster> <use>standard</use> <args> <module>SNS_Documentmaster</module> <frontName>nicefrontname</frontName> </args> </sns_documentmaster> </routers> </frontend>  

Event Observer

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The following snippet have to be added to the config.xml under the frontend (for FE-events) – or the adminhtml (for BE-Events) – tag: <events> <event_name> <observers> <observer_unique_config_name> <!– singleton or model –> <type>singleton</type> <class>Namespace_Modul_Model_Modelname</class> <method>functionToCallOnModelClassInstance</method> </observer_unique_config_name> </observers> </event_name> </events>  

Add JavaScript or CSS in Block class

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 To add JavaScript or CSS files to the head section of the resulting HTML page, you can add something like this to the _prepareLayout function of a Block class: $headBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock(‘head’); $headBlock->addJs(‘somefolder/ask-sheldon.js’); $headBlock->addCss(‘somefolder/ask-sheldon.css’); As you can see, we can use the layout model to get the head block an use its functions to add files. This […]

Automatically load custom product attribute with collection (every time)

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You can do this with the following XML in your config.xml: <frontend> <product> <collection> <attributes> <ATTRIBUTECODE/> </attributes> </collection> </product> </frontend> But ATTENTION: This can become a performance issue, because it loads the attribute every time the product collection is loaded! If you added too many attributes, the performance can get worse!  

Add breadcrump in custom block

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This is how to add a Breadcrumb entry in an own block: $breadcrumbs = $this->getLayout()->getBlock(‘breadcrumbs’); $breadcrumbs->addCrumb(‘home’, array(‘label’=>Mage::helper(‘cms’)->__(‘Home’), ‘title’=>Mage::helper(‘cms’)->__(‘Go to Home Page’), ‘link’=>Mage::getBaseUrl())); $breadcrumbs->addCrumb(‘cms_page’, array(‘label’=>$page->getTitle(), ‘title’=>$page->getTitle()));

Add static block to cms page

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First, you can use the XML-Layout-Update of the respective page (or other layout updates in every layout xml file ): <reference name=”content oder right oder left”> <block type=”cms/block” name=”blockname”> <action method=”setBlockId”><id>BLOCK-ID</id></action> </block> </reference> Or you can use the following placeholder: {{block type=”cms/block” block_id=”BLOCK-ID” template=”cms/content.phtml”}}

Magento – Get all stores

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Here is how to get all stores of your Magento instance a an Array: <?php $aAllStores = Mage::app()->getStores(); foreach ($aAllStores as $iStoreId => $oVal){ $sStoreCode = Mage::app()->getStore($iStoreId)->getCode(); $sStoreName = Mage::app()->getStore($iStoreId)->getName(); $iStoreId = Mage::app()->getStore($iStoreId)->getId(); echo $sStoreCode; echo $sStoreName; echo $iStoreId; } ?> To include the admin store you can call getStores like that: $aAllStores = Mage::app()->getStores(true) […]