How to find block names, templates and other data in Magento
Date June 19, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to
By activating the block hints, Magento will display the class name and template of a block while messing up the front end appearence. Now, we have the class names. How do we get the actual block name? How do we find the parent/children block names? Here is a small extension I made exactly for this: […]
Read MoreDate June 19, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento Generalities
Here comes a new certification from Magento, the Magento Solution Specialist Certification. There is already available the Magento Solution Specialist Certification Study Guide which you can download from Magento official site. According to this study guide: A Magento Solution Specialist is an expert user of the Magento eCommerce platform. Drawing on a deep background in […]
Read MoreDate June 16, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to
Even if in PHP using session variables is pretty easy, believe it or not in Magento is even simpler: To set data Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->setData(‘var_name’,$somevalue) To get data Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->getData(‘var_name’) Session variables persist between different page loads so you can use this to pass data between pages.
Read MoreDate June 16, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to
Even if you can use $_REQUEST[‘param_name’] or $_POST/$_GET for that matter, here is how you have to do it the Magento way: Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam(‘param_name’)
Read MoreDate June 16, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Magento how to
Wanna insert a Magento CMS block in a PHTML template file? Here is how you do it: <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock(‘cms/block’)->setBlockId(‘cms_block_id’)->toHtml() ?> Where ‘cms_block_id’ is exactly that, the block id, not the block title. That’s it.
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