How to get a product’s image in Magento?
echo $_product->getImageUrl(); This method of the Product class should do the trick for you.
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Understanding Magento Block and Block Type
For understanding more about magento block types following are some built-in block types which are widely used in layout. core/template: This block renders a template defined by its template attribute. The majority of blocks defined in the layout are of type or subtype of core/template. page/html: This is a subtype of core/template and defines the root block. All other blocks … Read more
CMS page with layered navigation not working
To display layered navigation on cms page you have to set root category to Is Anchor=Yes.
Adding a custom field to Magento’s subscription module
If you want to add some custom fields for Magento newsletter subscriber (for example subscriber_name), you should do the following: Add new column for newsletter_subscriber table Add text input to newsletter template Create observer for newsletter_subscriber_save_before event In the observer you can get your custom field’s value from request and assign it to subscriber’s object: … Read more
Change Magento default status for duplicated products
Try this: Create: app/code/local/MagePal/EnableDuplicateProductStatus/etc/config.xml <?xml version=”1.0″?> <config> <modules> <MagePal_EnableDuplicateProductStatus> <version>1.0.1</version> </MagePal_EnableDuplicateProductStatus> </modules> <global> <models> <enableduplicateproductstatus> <class>MagePal_EnableDuplicateProductStatus_Model</class> </enableduplicateproductstatus> </models> <events> <catalog_model_product_duplicate> <observers> <enableduplicateproductstatus> <type>singleton</type> <class>enableduplicateproductstatus/observer</class> <method>productDuplicate</method> </enableduplicateproductstatus> </observers> </catalog_model_product_duplicate> </events> </global> </config> Create: app/code/local/MagePal/EnableDuplicateProductStatus/Model/Observer.php class MagePal_EnableDuplicateProductStatus_Model_Observer { /** * Prepare product for duplicate action. * * @param Varien_Event_Observer $observer * @return object */ public function productDuplicate(Varien_Event_Observer … Read more
Magento tax rounding issue
In the end I found the solution. I changed System > VAT > Tax Calculation Method Based On from Unit price to Row Total and it works, more details here The issue which I found is in core/store model. I had to rewrite roundPrice method and change rounding precision there. public function roundPrice($price) { return … Read more
Magento products will not show in category
The checklist for whether items are in stock follows. Some will seem stupid until the first time you spend an hour trying to figure this problem out: The products must be Visible in Catalog. The products must be Enabled. Product must have a stock Quantity. The product must be set to In Stock. If the … Read more
Changing the price in quote while adding product to cart: magento
The way to do it is add an observer which looks for this event ‘sales_quote_add_item’: <events> <sales_quote_add_item> <observers> <priceupdate_observer> <type>singleton</type> <class>mymodule/observer</class> <method>updatePrice</method> </priceupdate_observer> </observers> </sales_quote_add_item> </events> The observer should have a method which does something like this: public function updatePrice($observer) { $event = $observer->getEvent(); $quote_item = $event->getQuoteItem(); $new_price = <insert logic> $quote_item->setOriginalCustomPrice($new_price); $quote_item->save(); }