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Magento Files and Folders Structure

This part of the Magento tutorial will provide detailed information regarding the Magento's default files and folders structure. You will learn more about the functions of main files and folders included in the Magento package. The files and folders included in the main directory are as follows: • .htaccess - contains mod_rewrite rules, which are essential for the Search Engine Friendly URLs. There you can ...

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Magento Global Functions

Reinventing the wheel – what a cliche! Of course you don’t do it, at least not intentionally. And you hate being reminded of code reuse on those rare occasions when someone points to a function you wrote, which allegedly does the same as some other function somewhere in the framework. Yet it happens. Sometimes looking for blueprints for the wheel takes longer than hacking it out yourself. Sometimes you migh ...

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Set the default direction or ordering for Magento category-pages

On Magento category-pages you can select how to view the available products: By price, name or relevance, and ascending or descending. Within the Magento backend, the default ordering (price, name or relevance) can be configured but strangely enough the default direction (ascending or descending) not. Here is a XML layout update that allows you to do this anyway. What is a XML layout update? XML-layouts are ...

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Enable Different Language For Magento Store

1. To Enable Different Language For Your Magento Store goto System->Manage Stores. 2. Click on the “Create Store View”, Here you find four required fields as follows : Store ———-> Select Your Store Name ———> Fill Any Relevant Name (English) Code ———-> Fill Any Relevant Code (english) Status ———> Select Enable And Press Save. 3. Then Goto System->Configuration 4. Select your Store View From ...

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How to fix the 10 most common Magento problems (Part 1)

This tutorial will show you solutions to some of the most common Magento issues that users face when managing their online shops. It covers the following topics on the top 10 most common Magento issues: 1.How to configure Magento to work with a new domain There are two things you should do in order to configure Magento to work with a new domain: Edit the Magento database Go to your cPanel > phpMyAdmin. S ...

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Uncancelling a Magento order

A Magento order could be cancelled by mistake, but there is no way to undo this action - at least not in the GUI. There might be excellent third party modules providing this functionality, but you could also write just a simple PHP-script to accomplish the same task. The clue to uncancel an order, is that - while you can change the order itself by changing its state andstatus, you also need to uncancel the ...

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How to manage the product attributes/attributes sets in Magento

We will show you in this tutorial how to add attributes to your Magento store in a few simple steps. The first step is to login to the administrator back-end of the store: http://yourdomain.com/index.php/admin If you have installed Magento under a subfolder of the www root folder for an example “store” you should add this directory name before the index.php. Once  the back-end is completely rendered navigat ...

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Magento Widgets – An overview of magento widget

Magento Widgets are Magento extensions with a predefined set of configuration options. Through them the store administrators can enrich the front-end blocks functionality. They provide great control and flexibility in creating informational and marketing content through the Magento administrator panel. Once installed, the widgets options can be tuned by the Magento store administrators. The Magento widgets ...

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