Magento Development and Coding

Magento 'Shop by Brand' in SideBar:

First, create a template file, label it productbrand.phtml then keep it in catalog/product folder after which you can copy the code in it given below, also paste it in your productbrand.phtml. Make use of the product brand and include it in the database, which needs a label of all the brands you are interested to include and use it to make a comprehensive working out with brands mentioned of all items.

<div>

<div>

<h4>

<span>Product Brands</span></h4>

</div>

<div style="padding-left:8px;">

<?php

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

$attributes = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId())->addFieldToFilter('attribute_code', 'manufacturer');

$attribute = $attributes->getFirstItem()->setEntity($product->getResource());

$manufacturers = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);

?>

<ul id="manufacturer_list"><?php foreach ($manufacturers as $manufacturer): ?>

<li><a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/catalogsearch/advanced/result/?manufacturer[]=<?php echo $manufacturer['value'] ?>"><?php echo $manufacturer['label'] ?></a>

</li>

<?php endforeach; ?>   </ul>

</div>

<div>

</div>

</div>

Create Customer By Code In Magento:

Creating customer programmatically is simple just use your code below.

$websiteId = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId();

$store = Mage::app()->getStore();

//$customer = new Mage_Customer_Model_Customer();

$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");

$customer->website_id = $websiteId;

$customer->setStore($store);

$customer->firstname = "vikram";

$customer->lastname = "singh";

$customer->email = "singh@yourdomain.com";

$customer->password_hash = md5("password");

$customer->save();

Change Admin URL in Magento:

It is easy to change admin URL in Magneto, open local.xml at this location below, /app/etc/local.xml now search the code below replacing 'admin' with your desired name. As you do, your admin URL changed to adminarea is a correction.

Magento Code Method

Send Every Store Activity Email to Store Owner in Magento:

We can do this by editiing Templete.php file at the location given below app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Email Search for your code:

$this->setSentSuccess($this->send($email, $name, $vars));

In addition, just below this looked out code paste the code given.

$this->setSentSuccess($this->send('owner@store.com', $name, $vars));

Now every email that shoots from Magento store delivers to the owner also.

Get Customer GroupId in Magento:

Firstly, you need to check if your customer logs in or not:

$logged_in = Mage::getSingleton( 'customer/session' )->isLoggedIn();

Now use the code below to check CustomerGroupID

$group = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();

Labels: How can I get the CostumerGroupid?

Magento Custom Form with Notification:

Step1: you need to make an XML file same at the location shown below, if the folder does not exist please create it /app/etc/modules/MageWorks_Contact.xml and paste its content below in MageWorks_Contact.xml

Step 2: Now create Confix.xml at this location below app/code/local/MageWorks/Contact/etc/config.xml, paste the content below to the config.xml file

Step 3: Now create controller at the following location app/code/local/MageWorks/Contact/controllers/IndexController.php

Now paste all content shown next to the controller:

class MageWorks_Contact_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action

{

    public function indexAction()

    {

        //Get current layout state

        $this->loadLayout();  

        $block = $this->getLayout()->createBlock(

            'Mage_Core_Block_Template',

            'mageworks.contact',

            array(

                'template' => 'mageworks/contact.phtml'

            )

        );

        $this->getLayout()->getBlock('content')->append($block);

        //$this->getLayout()->getBlock('right')->insert($block, 'catalog.compare.sidebar', true);

        $this->_initLayoutMessages('core/session');

        $this->renderLayout();

    }

    public function sendemailAction()

    {

        //Fetch submited params

        $params = $this->getRequest()->getParams();

        $mail = new Zend_Mail();

        $mail->setBodyText($params['comment']);

        $mail->setFrom($params['email'], $params['name']);

        $mail->addTo('somebody_else@example.com', 'Some Recipient');

        $mail->setSubject('Test MageWorks_Contact Module for Magento');

        try {

            $mail->send();

        }       

        catch(Exception $ex) {

            Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send email. Sample of a custom notification error from MageWorks_Contact.');

        }

        //Redirect back to index action of (this) mageworks-contact controller

        $this->_redirect('mageworks-contact/');

    }

}

Step 4: Create view app/design/frontend/default/default/template/mageworks/contact.phtml

Paste content below to the contact.phtml page:

MageWorks_Contact module sample:

Coding Processes in Magento

Magento Display Category BestSellers:

Category distinction and selection to choose the kind of product you are intending to sell through the database assigned with an array of different items displayed on it.

$curr_categoryid = Mage::registry('current_category')->getId();

$cat_Id= $curr_categoryid;

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($cat_Id);

$products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')

        ->addOrderedQty()

        ->addAttributeToSelect('*')

        ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc')

        ->addCategoryFilter($category);

Get Nicely Formated Final Price in Magento:

Final price in proper format is shown and you can attain it using the below code snippet if you want an evaluation of all prices of items to be purchased through this Magento online e-commerce store.

$_coreHelper = $this->helper('core');

$_taxHelper = $this->helper(’tax’);

$_finalPriceInclTax = $_taxHelper->getPrice($_product, $_product->getFinalPrice(), true);

$_finalPriceFormated = $_coreHelper->currency($_finalPriceInclTax,true,false);

echo $_finalPriceFormated;

Labels: Formatted Price Magento:

Magento Image Switcher on MouseOver:

Step1. Open file on location given below app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/view/media.phtml

Step2. Search the code in media.phtml file

<a href="#" onclick="popWin('<?php echo $this->getGalleryUrl($_image) ?>', 'gallery', 'width=300,height=300,left=50,top=50,location=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;">

   <!--nested img tag stays the same-->

</a>

Step 3. Replace searched code with code below.

<a href="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($this->getProduct(), 'image', $_image->getFile()); ?>" title="<?php echo $_product->getName();?>" onmouseover="$('image').src = this.href; return false;">

   <!--nested img tag stays the same-->

</a>