Magento Index Seminar Video & Guide

Ivan Chepurnyi - September 16th 2011 - 5 Comments

 

Last week there was an online seminar about Magento Indexes functionality. In this blog post I would like to describe a bit more properly a solution for custom index creation, because there were some things that were some issues with …

Why I should upgrade to the latest Magento CE 1.4.2

Ivan Chepurnyi - December 20th 2010 - 11 Comments

 

Last week I was reviewing and playing a bit with Magento CE 1.4.2 and noticed a lot of interesting improvements and changes that they included in it. Some of the most interesting ones you can find in this article:

• TheFind

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Defining ACL resources & Custom Admin Menu in Magento

Ivan Chepurnyi - October 28th 2010 - 14 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 …

Custom configuration fields in Magento

Ivan Chepurnyi - October 27th 2010 - 18 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 …

Magento module configuration file reference

Ivan Chepurnyi - August 31st 2010 - 11 Comments

 

The most important file in custom modules development is config.xml. With the help of this file you can override models, blocks, helpers; define custom controllers, module version, table names, cache types; load your layout files, etc. About all of these …