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Magento – get country list select dropdown

Date September 19, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to

If you want to use the dropdown country selector, the same one as on the registration page: <?php $_countries = Mage::getResourceModel(‘directory/country_collection’) ->loadData() ->toOptionArray(false) ?> <?php if (count($_countries) > 0): ?> <select name=”country” id=”country” class=”required-entry”> <option value=””>– Please Select –</option> <?php foreach($_countries as $_country): ?> <option value=”<?php echo $_country[‘value’] ?>”> <?php echo $_country[‘label’] ?> </option> <?php […]

Magento – how to replace variables with values in text

Date September 18, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to

If you have some text which you want to display and this text contains {{ }} kind of variables, to replace these variables with their actual values use this: Mage::helper(‘cms’)->getBlockTemplateProcessor()->filter($text) Where $text contains the actual text to be displayed.

Magento – How to check if user logged in

Date September 12, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to

There are many ways to check if a user is logged in, but I usually prefer to use the ‘customer’ helper. $this->helper(‘customer’)->isLoggedIn() This returns ‘true’ if the user is logged in.

Magento load full address by address id

Date August 31, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to

If you have the address id and need all the address information, that’s how you get it: $address = Mage::getModel(‘customer/address’)->load($addressId);

Set Vagrant box file location

Date August 31, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Vagrant box

By default, the Vagrantfile has the box defined like this: config.vm.box = “hashicorp/precise32″ By using this, Vagrant will attempt to find the box “precise32” from the provider “hashicorp” in Vagrant Cloud. If it finds it, the box will be downloaded and installed. What if you want to use your own box file, be it local […]

Magento Comunity Edition (CE) vs Enterprise Edition (EE)

Date August 24, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento Generalities

This is work in progress. If you find any inaccurate or missing information, please let me know.

Selenium IDE – Check CSS style

Date August 18, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Selenium how to

Checking the CSS style of elements its not so stright forward in Selenium IDE. Here is an example to check the left padding of an element: Command: assertEval Target: window.document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(window.document.getElementsByClassName(‘login-logout’)[0]).getPropertyValue(‘padding-left’) Value: 5px The same way you can check most of the CSS defined properties. Instead of window you can use selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().

Magento eCommerce Online merchandising – Basic steps of setting up a new online store

Date August 10, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Solution Specialist

Magento eCommerce Online merchandising – Basic steps of setting up a new online store This is the second bullet in the Magento Certified Solution Specialist Exam Study Guide, chapter 1.1. Online merchandising. The Basic steps of settin up a new online store refer to: Platform selection Hosting Deployment Maintenance Platform selection. Chose osCommerce! I’m joking, […]

Magento Certified Solution Specialist Exam Details

Date August 10, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Solution Specialist

Magento Certified Solution Specialist Exam consists in about 60 multiple choice questions. The available time to complete the exam is 90 minutes. The exam is based on Magento Community Edition v.1.8 and Magento Enterprise Edition v.1.13. The questions are from four different areas: eCommerce, about 13% of the questions Magento architecture, about 27% of the […]

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