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Magento Checkout: Shopping Cart Flow

Posted by on Dec 12, 2012 in How To, Overview | 11 comments

Magento Checkout: Shopping Cart Flow

Shopping Cart is a starting point for every customer in the checkout flow. That is why the article about it, is the next one in “Magento Checkout from A to Z” series. In this article you will learn what happens during viewing shopping cart page, adding product to cart or changing products’ qty. As well you will get familiar with some customizations principles of that...

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Magento and style custom elements of the form

Posted by on Oct 4, 2012 in How To | 0 comments

Current realities of web-design require from the front-end developer to copy all elements. One of the most difficult on my opinion are elements of the forms. Realization has varying difficulty for online business card and for huge CMS like Magento. Is it possible to make it pixel to pixel with the design for Magento template? Certainly yes, but just if you know all render content. If you want to...

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New Version Of EcomDev_PHPUnit 0.1.2 Extension For Magento

Posted by on Feb 10, 2011 in Extensions, How To | 18 comments

There are just 10 days were gone and we are happy to introduce new version of our Magento Unit Test suite. In this version were added full multi-store support and EAV fixtures, was improved the way of expectations retrieving and some other minor fixes. Those, who do not know about what the post is, here is the previous article about the...

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PHPUnit and Magento? Yes you CAN!

Posted by on Feb 1, 2011 in Extensions, How To | 55 comments

I think a lot of developers tried to write own UnitTests for Magento. I tried as well, but the main problem was in isolation of database for tests. So I came up with idea in developing a test suite for Magento that will help me to create tests without terrible headache in testing of data saving and retrieving… Some time ago I worked in a company, that was using PHPUnit with fixtures in...

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Defining ACL resources & Custom Admin Menu in Magento

Posted by on Oct 28, 2010 in How To | 17 comments

Sometimes you need to give ability for limiting access to a particular Magento Admin page and sometimes your customization goes out of just modifying some administrative page layout. In this case creation of adminhtml.xml file in your module etc folder helps you. You can define custom ACL rules and custom menu items or modify behavior of existing menu items, because adminhtml.xml files are merged...

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Custom configuration fields in Magento

Posted by on Oct 27, 2010 in How To | 26 comments

During the development you have a lot of things those are needed for configuration by an admin user. For this purpose Magento gives you ability to easily create sections under “System -> Configuration” via system.xml. You will learn how to create configuration fields from this article. Enjoy your reading and working with Magento. I suppose all of you know that Magento have a lot...

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