ecomdev Ecomdev_PHPUnit, Controller tests and core/index/noCookies I tried to test an observer which should kill the form_key on the add to cart action. To do this I wanted to put a product into the cart and make sure it was added, e.g. by testing that checkout_cart_add_product_complete was dispatched. But my
Magento INSERT INTO, increased auto_increment, but no data Missing data, failed transactions and unassigned products Last week my job was to port a module back from Magento 1.9 to Magento 1.4. Allowed core hacks In the end the only real problem I had, was that Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Db_Abstract doesn't exist already, therefore I
Magento Mage_Weee and why it is important for tax calculation TL;DR Install Topological Sort [https://github.com/ikonoshirt/TopologicalSearch] to fix the sorting algorithm. Problem Mage_Weee is a module which is needed in Magento to calculate the so called Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electronic_Equipment_Directive] . It is
FireGento How to organize a Mage Hackathon - FireGento style What is a hackathon On first view a hackathon is a meetup of developers, but if you ask me, it is so much more: It is all about people - not only developers! Develoeprs, designer, tester, people who are interessted in a certain topic meet, discuss a topic and hack
Magento Domains, Domains, Domains I dumped a shop from my customer and imported it to my local system, as you can guess, the local domain is another one. All my domains are like: .dev. Where to change domains Secure/Unsecure Base URL From core_config_data: default 0 web/unsecure/base_url http://customer.
Magento SSL Everywhere or HSTS We have to secure all the data of our users, not only registration, checkout and login. We need to secure the session data too. SSL Everywhere or HTTP Strict Transport Security (I hope) Everyone knows, that it is important to secure (read as encrypt) our customer’s data. Because of
Magento Add Amin User Magento Cheat Sheet, how to add a magento admin user, directly thorugh SQL Thanks to Atwix [http://www.atwix.com], i found the SQL which is needed to create a magento admin user [http://www.atwix.com/magento/reset-admin-password-mysql/]. Cheat sheet for me: SET @fistname = 'Fabian'; SET @lastname = 'Blechschmidt'; SET
Magento NOT LOGGED IN with ID 4 Standard customer group with "wrong" id and the consequences Yesterday I debugged an interessting behaviour: All categories were shown in the shop, no products. If you request the product directly /catalog/product/view/id/12345 you found the product and everything was shown. The standard errors were tested: * reindex * clean
Magento Joining a flat table on EAV How to use the Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Collection_Abstract::joinTable() method to join a flat table on a magento EAV collection Joining a "normal" (aka flat table) to a magento EAV table is easy - if you know how to do. As always there are a lot resources with
Magento Add Address To Registration TL;DR Thanks to Steven Henk Don [http://www.shdon.com/blog/2011/06/24/magento-show-address-fields-in-account-creation-form] true Longer story I talked a few days ago with Sascha from melovely.de [http://www.melovely.de] about old, not more functional or "wrong" answers to "standard" magento quest
Magento $file kills setup script It is possible to change important and used variables inside the setup model while installing I implemented a data-setup script today. It starts with defining a variable: $file = 'var/import/sample.csv'; The error When magento was called, I got this error: [message:protected] => Warning: Illegal string offset 'toVersion' in
Magento Array Union Operator > Use the Union Operator to fix a magento bug These days I found a bug in magento [http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue/?issue=7419]. The bug Magento has a method in Mage_Core_Helper_Data to removeAccents: public function removeAccents($string, $german=false) { if (empty($replacements[$german])) { $subst = array(
Magento IE users are logged out by multiple uploader Scenario We upload images via Multiple-File-Uploader in the magento backend. The upload went on the first look well, the image is shown in the table under the other images. As I hopefully wrote here [https://blog.fabian-blechschmidt.de/articles/Magentos-Flex-Uploader.html] the images are loaded from the server in full
bundle product Price of Bundle Product We have a template and echoing prices of products. The products are of differenct kind. Simple product, bundle product, etc. To get the price of a simple product you just call $_product->getPrice(); When you call this method on a bundle product, it returns 0.00. So how to get
EAV Remove Values From Attribute Today I had to change the values of a magento product attribute. Attribute before I had an attribute color with the values: * aqua * black * blue * fuchsia * ... (all other CSS2.1 color names) And I had to change it to german values. So I had a look into $installer->addAttribute() the
Create a Magento Admin User I copied the local.xml file from one magento to another and changed the database. Afterwards I accessed the magento installation http://shop.dev. Magento run all his update and install scripts. Afterwards I had two problems: 1. I had no admin user. The solution, how to create one I
Magento Parameters of Varien_Data_Form? Why do I write this? Because I had the problem a few hours ago that no form was rendered in my backend formular. And as a few of you may know, the FireGento GermanSetup Team [https://github.com/firegento/firegento-germansetup] met today. Noone of us knew instantly why. So here
Security German OWASP Day 2012 Ich war gestern auf dem German OWASP Day 2012. Die OWASP [http://www.owasp.org] ist das "Open Web Application Security Project" [http://www.owasp.org]. Eine offene, kostenlose Organisation, die Security in der IT voranbringen will. Es folgen Notizen. Keynote: Volkmar Lotz (SAP) Part 1: Build Knowledge Auch mit
Magento Hackathon in Munich Overview Thanks to all the sponsors, we had a great weekend in Munich. Sponsors Jarlssen [http://www.jarlssen.de/] In Jarlssen's [http://www.jarlssen.de/] office, we had a lot of space to develope and extend together extension. Anolo [http://www.anolo.de/magento-hackathon.html] The energy was sponsored by
Magento Ikonoshirt_CustomAdminNotifications Looking for an easy way to add your Magento_AdminNotifications? Here it is. The readme is already in markdown and I think readable. So have a look. I pushed the extension to github [https://github.com/ikonoshirt/CustomAdminNotifications] . Ikonoshirt_CustomAdminNotifications As I wrote in my blog [https://blog.fabian-blechschmidt.de/
Magento Multiselect Bug in the backend In Magento version < 1.7.0.0-alpha1 it is not possible to empty a multiselect. In the adminbackend in Magento is a bug, which prevents a multiselect to become empty. A element is not submited, if no option is selected. To submit a value you need to render a element
Magento Adminnotification or Magento is phoning home. How this feature works and what we should do with it Mage_Adminnotification There is this tiny module, which goes us on our nerves all the time we install a new magento. It is called Mage_Adminnotification. If you don't know, what I'm talking about, maybe this picture will help
Magento EAV attributes, default values and source models EAV Attribute I tried to add an EAV attribut [http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/magento-for-dev-part-7-advanced-orm-entity-attribute-value] , set a default value and that without using a source model, set this options: $this->addAttribute('customer', 'customer_type', array( 'type' => 'int' 'option' => array('values' => array('Customer', 'Artist')) 'default' => 'Customer', [...] ); Default value Magento adds
Magentos Flex File Uploader Magento has a multiple file uploader in the admin backend written in flash and action script. It communicates with the website via JavaScript. File Uploader Does anybody had a look on these uploader? I had it yesterday, because I ported it to the frontend customer area. I implemented a check,
Magento Remove the coupon field from the cart The solution of this is at the end I monitor "magento" on twitter. Sometimes I read the tweets. A few minutes ago I found a tweet to a blog article which describes how to remove the coupon field from the cart. It starts with: > There is no button in the
