In your selling period, sometimes you would like to make offer for promotion or festival. Here I will show you how to create a coupon code between a specific period for all products and customers with unlimited usage. In admin panel, click the menu “Promotions” -> “Shopping Cart Price Rules”, then the list for all [...]
By default, Magento use 8 digits for Orders, Invoices, Creditmemo and Shipments’ increment ID. However, sometime you would like to change the length to meet 3rd party’s system requirement. This can be easily accomplished by: modify the field “increment_pad_length” in the “eav_entity_type” table for whatever entity you’re wanting to modify. modify the field “increment_last_id” in [...]
In Magento customization, sometimes you may want to get the value of attribute’s option. In below example I will show you how to do it. Assuming that there is an attribute named “dropdown_field” and contains 4 options label: “Option 1″, “Option 2″, “Option 3″, “Option 4″. The codes below get the option label which is [...]
In your Magento development period, you may create many order to test the checkout process. Before the website launch, you should find that there is no “delete” action for orders. What? Is it crazy? Unfortunately, it’s really crazy (maybe) that you cannot delete order in Magento by default. Like me, there are over hundred orders [...]
You may design some nice templates and layouts for your Magento shopping cart, but you cannot choose these layouts in CMS. You can add the following XML codes in “global” section in either one of config.xml in any module, but I suggest you to create a new custom module to change it. For example, if [...]
When you’re implementing custom module, normally you will have to re-run setup routines. Some people will create newer version of the setup file, but it will make you confuse after 100 modification. To do it, simply remove references to your modules in “core_resource” table and then, in backend, go to ‘System’ -> ‘Configuration’ -> ‘Advanced’ [...]
After Magento is installed, you may have the error “Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually” when clicking on some pages in both backend and frontend. Usually it will be happened in shared web hosting, but also in individual server if the permission of tmp folder set wrong. Many bloggers suggested to [...]
