TAG | Magento
The other day I was trying to help someone create a Form in the admin side of Magento that would simply POST to a Controller and capture some data. I thought it’d be fairly simple, I’ve done it before; I thought. Turns out I had done it before, but I’ve always used the built in [...]
Sometimes, you’ve got a situation where you want to have a globally available static function. Most often this occurs (for me) in a debugging context. Recently I wanted to have FirePHP available from anywhere in my project so I made use of the lib folder. Unlike just about every other article on this site, for [...]
It’s possible to setup process to run on a schedule provided that your server is setup to run cron. All internal cron jobs are run from a single page/script call. You’ll need to setup your server to either; make a request to /cron.php or execute /cron.sh. The time delta that you set here will be [...]
One of the many aspects to good module development is packaging everything up in such a way that the module is as standalone as possible. The goal is to provide a third-party with a single package that can take care of itself. Many modules will make use of custom database tables and/or Magento storage mechanisms. [...]
With the latest release of Magento admins now have the ability to create custom “widgets” that can be dropped anywhere on the site to provide additional functionality. The most common type of widget that I come across is a simple frontend presentation widget. Basically the developer is asked to display some sort of data in [...]
