Fixing Legal entity & natural person Romanian Addresses extension to work on Magento 1.5.0.0 & 1.5.0.1
These days I was in need of using this extension Legal entity & natural person Romanian Addresses. This is a very good extension that customizes the addresses entities to conform with the latest Romanian legislation. This extension is also popular among the Romanian Magento community. Unfortunately the extension is not yet compatible with Magento 1.5.0.0 and above. Anyway I dug into it and I’ve managed to build a patch that will make the extension work with Magento 1.5.0.0 and Magento 1.5.0.1. Read the rest of this entry »
Magento event system (part 1)
When developing custom modules/extensions and there is a need to add some extra functionality to a default Magento behavior a great help is provided by the events that Magento triggers in different areas of the application’s code.
What are events?
An event should be seen like a marker placed in the application code when an action (the execution of the script) has reached a certain point. For example we can talk about the following events: before loading a database model, after loading a database model, before saving the cart object and many more. Also an event can be seen like an ‘entry point’ where the programmer can attach some custom code specific to his needs in order to customize a functionality/flow. Each event is identified by a name. Magento has many core events defined in various places of code, and the next step for us is to find a way to determine those events. Read the rest of this entry »
Setting up jQuery and jQuery UI in Magento
Hi all, I know that Magento comes with the Prototype JS library already built in, but, like many others that are working with Magento, I’m wanting to use jQuery because of its simplicity in learning, its great capabilities and because of the big number of plugins that are available for it. So bellow is presented step by step guide that will describe the integration of the latest jQuery UI (includes jQuery library also) into a Magento installation. Read the rest of this entry »
Adding a thumbnail image on the product to category tab in Magento
For the first post I thought of starting with something really helpful and easy to implement. Have you ever lost precious time when assigning product(s) to categories in Magento administration side because you were not able to see what that product looks or you cannot identify the product by name, sku, etc … well…, an image speaks more than words. What we are going to do, is adding a thumbnail image on the product(s) to category tab when editing a category. This will help us a lot on choosing the products that we want to assign to a specific category. Let’s get this started! Read the rest of this entry »
Hello World!
Hi all! This is our first post on this new blog. We want to make this a place where anyone can find help in various forms: tutorials, code snippets, full extensions and a place where everybody can contribute with his own ideas and thoughts, so hopefully we can improve our knowledge in this beautiful piece of software which is Magento. So here we go! Wish us good luck 
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