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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

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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(

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EAV attributes, default values and source models

EAV Attribute I tried to add an EAV attribut, 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 the values