I’ve been working in e-commerce for a good few years now, for very similar companies (early stage, fast fashion focussed) and there’s always the same sorts of problems to solve. Here’s a very basic, very generic guide to the things you need to get up and running. Each bit has a ‘too long / didn’t […]
Just a quick snippet of code today, it grabs all the products in a certain category (given in category_id), sorts them by age and stock availability (you can adjust the relative weighting of these using $stock_weight) and then updates the category. The end result is a nice mix of newer products, and products with loads […]
Just a quick note, sometimes you need to access the magento database from a script, but don’t want the overhead of loading the whole magento framework….. Here’s a little snippet of code that grabs the database details from the magento xml config, so you don’t have to store them in your script: <?php class db […]
Quick plug for some magento scripts I wrote for development / deployments of Magento 1.x There’s some info in the readme, but I might write a couple of quick tutorials if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/Tall-Paul/mage-tools
As per this thread on reddit, here’s my script for importing products into magento via an excel file. Some of it, specifically the attributes and attribute sets are hardcoded in places, but other than that it should be generally applicable to most stores. It makes use of the PHPExcel library for loading the data from […]
Hey all, been a long time since I posted anything since my job is keeping me pretty busy…. here’s something I implemented for prettylittlething.com that might come in useful for you. It’s a little script that basically scans a directory for images and, if it finds any, adds them to the relevant products. Images have […]
One of the things that’s always annoyed me about Magento is the dearth of decent, free shipping modules available for the system. Out of the box you can do a reasonable amount with regards shipping, setting a flat rate or using one of the built in shipping methods…but if you want to do anything fancy […]
Just a quick fix for today. Magento appears to have a bug whereby if a user places an order using paypal express when they’re not logged into your site (ie: using the ‘guest checkout’ functionality of magento their email address will not be passed through correctly. One annoying symptom of this is that the user […]
Just had a moment of epiphany that I thought I’d share…I’m sure this is well known to most Magento developers, but I’ve not seen it clearly spelled out anywhere and it’s taken me a while to get my head round this. Have a look at this snippet of a config file for one of my […]
I’ve noticed a bug with Magento that affects the code I wrote for the ‘Extending the API’ tutorial so I thought I’d post a fix for it here. Well, I assume it’s a bug since I don’t see how it could be anything else… Here’s the article in question Here’s the api.xml file from that […]