Magento Tutorials

Learn how to use Magento's built in JavaScript form validation library to validate your forms on the client side.

During my time working on Magento projects, I would estimate that at least 50% of sites don't have cron jobs enabled! This figure is so crazily high considering how easy cron jobs are to setup and how useful they can be! In this article I will show you: a) how to set up a cron job for any Linux server b) how to set up up the Magento cron job c) how to add your custom modules to Magento's cron tab

Are you getting a Javascript alert box with the message 'undefined' during checkout? If so, this is a common error with the Magento checkout but fortunately, is easy to diagnose and then fix. A lot of people are posting their fixes online, however these fixes don't work for all users. This is because each persons problem is slightly differently. Fortunately, there is an easy to diagnose your problem, which then, should be easy to fix!

Product collections in Magento provide a great way to perform complex SQL on the database without having to know any SQL (although knowing it will definitely help!). One of the key functions is addAttributeToFilter. This function adds clauses to the WHERE section of the SQL query being constructed. There are many different conditionals you can use here (Equals, Like etc) so I present them all, with explanations in list form here.

Learn how to use static block's to make even more of your Magento store manageable via the Admin interface. Also learn the various methods of accessing this data.

If you're working with Magento often you'll find sometimes you need to use Magento functions and classes outside of the Magento platform. In this article we will explore how to correctly do this.

While I'm confident that many people in the Magenosphere have figured this one out, it took a whole Saturday night and part of my soul for me to achieve it. Hopefully, by presenting this code here, I can save you from the pain I endured :)
Creating The Connection
To create your connection, create a custom module [...]