The Problem:
I need to write Part III of the Magento series.
The Solutions:
This article… TADA!
First, let’s talk about the controller. The default controller for a module is always named IndexController.php. If you haven’t requested a specific controller (in the URL), than the system is going to look for IndexController.php and load it. Similarly, the default Magento [...]
The Problem:
You need to work with Magento Models, how chic!
The Solution:
Well, let’s be honest… I don’t have THE solution, but I do have some useful snippets of information to pass along.
Models are the meat of an MVC application. They contain the definitions for your application’s components. Stop for a moment and think conceptually about your [...]
This article was written while using Magento v1.3.2.3.
Greetings! This is installment number one of the the exiting Magento Custom Module series. There’s basically two paths to the end of the fairytale:
Path 1: You follow this series and get down and dirty with Magento, learning a lot along the way.
Path 2: You go out and download [...]
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JavaScript reports 0 (Zero) Height and Width for hidden image
2 Comments | Posted by Will Wright in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery
The Problem:
I was recently modifying an image gallery for a customer that used a pretty slick JavaScript Carousel for the presentation. The Basic idea was that the images were all outputted within an LI, hidden via CSS, and then the JavaScript carousel used that LI as the datasource to build the gallery.
Everything worked great except [...]
The Problem:
Note: This only applies to XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctypes and Mozilla.
I make this type of layout all the time! Two fixed width columns on either side of a fluid column. Recently I had to put a list of article teasers into the center (fluid) column. No problem, I marked up an unordered list, floated [...]
