Magento Tutorials

There are many ways to display your category/subcategory navigation listings in Magento eCommerce, however some are better than others. This article details how to access your category and subcategory information without making all those expensive database category model load queries.

To develop a truly custom Magento eCommerce website, you will more than likely have to customise the Magento Administration section. Using the Magento event system, we will develop a custom Magento module that injects custom tabs into the product edit page. We will also learn how to save any data that is set there. Although this tutorial is written for the Magento Product page, the same techniques apply to the whole of the backend and therefore can be expanded on to add tabs to the Magento order page or the Magento customer page.

There are many ways to access country information in Magento. Unfortunately, most developers use a long drawn out way when they can accomplish it in 1 line of code! In this article you will learn how to easily access an array containing country names and country codes. Using this array I will show you how to create a drop down (select box) quickly and easily in the both the Magento front end and the Magento Admin area.

Magento's use of data models provide a great way to access and modify data but sometimes, you can't beat a direct SQL query! In this article learn to how to correctly query the Magento database directly!

Creating custom themes in Magento 1.4 is a massive part of Magento development and a necessary skill for any one serious about developing Magento based websites. In this article, I will aim to explain the new structural changes to custom themes, how to structure your theme folders as well as showing you how to create your own custom Magento theme for Magento 1.4.

Display categories and subcategories is a fundamental part of any eCommerce system and is often one of the first things a developer will try to accomplish. In Magento there are several very useful functions that will make handling categories much easier. In this article find out how to: a) display your top level categories b) display your top level categories and their subcategories c) display your top level categories and the current category's subcategories only

A massively misunderstood part of Magento is it's database structure. The EAV architecture used in the Magento database is an extremely efficient and suitable database methodology and understanding in can be invaluable when developing custom modules for Magento. In this article I attempt to explain how EAV works and why Varien chose to use it. I will also show you some examples of queries you can use to extract usable data,

Sometimes delivery charges scare customers off and can lower your chance of making a sale. A great way to combat this is to work the price of delivery into the product price and offer free delivery. In this article I will show you a way to make global changes to product prices in only a few minutes!