Redmelon Ltd

Magento – Create Newsletter Subscribe Page

piersp — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:00:36 +0000

Create a page under CMS > Pages and call it Newsletter. Then add the code below:

{{block type="newsletter/subscribe" template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml"}}

Magento – Show a Static Block in the product view.phtml based on category

piersp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:53:01 +0000

Edit view.phtml and put this code in:

getCategoryIds(); ?>
$_category_id): ?>
load($_category_id) ?>
getName() ?>

if ($_category->getName() == ‘YourCategoryName’) {echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock(‘cms/block’)->setBlockId(‘yourstaticblockname’)->toHtml();}
else {echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock(‘cms/block’)->setBlockId(‘blank’)->toHtml();}
?>

Magento – UK Tax/VAT Setup

piersp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:48:14 +0000

Use the CSV below to setup VAT in Magento

Magento – Recommended Extensions

piersp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:47:23 +0000

WebShopApps Shipping
WebShopApps Invoice
OneStepCheckout
Simple Google Shopping

Magento – Getting the paths

piersp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:43:21 +0000

To Retrieve URL path in STATIC BLOCK

To get SKIN URL

To get Media URL

To get Store URL

To get Base URL

To Retrieve URL path in PHTML
Note: In editing PHTML don’t forget to enclode the following code with PHP tag

Not secure Skin URL

getSkinUrl(‘images/sampleimage.jpg’) ?>

Secure Skin URL

getSkinUrl(‘images/ sampleimage.gif’, array(‘_secure’=>true)) ?>

Get Current URL

$current_url = Mage::helper(‘core/url’)->getCurrentUrl();

Get Home URL

$home_url = Mage::helper(‘core/url’)->getHomeUrl();

Magento – CSV Product Import

piersp — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:49:20 +0000

Importing products to Magento using a CSV