see subj
there's a tool for oscommerce to magento migration, but i'm not very tech-skilled
I need to transfer:
products and categories
customers and
orders template design
Hi Everybody,
I have just installed Magento on Windows using WAMP.
Installation was successfull without any errors or warnings.
When i browse administration page, i can see login screen. After entering the correct credentials it is not displaying me the Dashboard/Control Panel. Its displaying the same login page.
If i enter wrong credentials,…
Hi All,
I am a newb in magento and recently started looking at it to create a store for my client.
I am not sure but i tried installing firephp extension and soon after that I’m having my screen looks like the screenshot. ** please check the link provided!
Do I have to make any installations to get everything working as normal or what am I…
In Magento, if you need to get / fetch the Shopping Cart's Item details, you can do it in any of the two possible ways, which will provide you with all the shopped Items in an array:-
$cartItems1 = $cart->getQuote()->getAllItems();
$cartItems2 = $cart->getItems()->getData();
But before using any one of the above two methods,…
Magento 1.4
Default Product Details image size is 265x265.
All of our product images will be probably 2x taller than wide, and even if we pad them to make them square 265 will be too small to see detail in the image, so we'd like to make the image taller.
I found the media.phtml file
How would we go about modifying this file/Magento…
If there's something that everybody hates about Magento it's endlessly configuring your modules before being able to write some code. I'm trying to collect a list of common Magento configuration errors for a future project that's I'm close to launching.
I'm looking for specific examples of things like using the wrong naming convention…
Hi Everyone,
I am facing this problem while installing extensions, themes basically anything from magento connect.
When I enter the extension key and click install It just gets stuck and even when it says done and I try and go back on admin page it says "There are PEAR processes running.
If you will close the window or navigate away from…
Hi,
How can I allow SKU be longer than 34 characters (for simple products) for all products?
When i add new product(simple) and enter more than 34 characters, Magento cuts it to 34 after saving.
In the database the 'sku' attributes ( for quete item,order item,invoice item, shipment item) from eav_attribute table hold varchar(255). For…
I've noticed that magento keeps the URL to the logo it uses for each store you setup in the "core_config_data" table.
If I run this SQL:
SELECT *
FROM `core_config_data`
WHERE path = 'design/header/logo_src'
I get a list of stores and their associated logo. I also get a config_id and a scope_id.
I'd like to be able to update…
There seems to be a problem in Magento's reading of the var/cache directory. I've disabled Full Page Caching for testing.
When I execute the bash command chmod -R 777var/cache/` before loading the page, it loads ~3 seconds quicker (the time it takes before 'mage::dispatch::routers_match' is reached in the Profiler is reduced from ~4…
I use magento1.8.1 and I just moved my localhost site to a new server and imported my database using phpmyadmin and deleted the contents inside var/cache & var/session folders but when I try to access my backend the login page is loading in left top corner with a white background.
However I can access to my backend and my…
Hi guys! A friend of mine asked me to build a Magento site for him. I've done some standard things before with Magento, but never really undestood how it worked inside. He sells his products across the country with different prices by city. So, he wants:
a Welcome screen where the user could pick his city
and then show the…
I'm struggling with an issue for which I can't find an explanation. I have two development environments that I use for my projects. I created a simple module for Magento and I tested it on one environment. After overcoming all Magento's complications, the module works as expected. This is on XAMPP.
I then copied the module…
if getChildHtml('product_type_data') ? maps directly to catalog/product/view/type/simple.phtml by default, how do I map to my own file? If I wanted to create a file that would produce a small image to place on the product page, right under "availability" how would I tell magento to map to where I have put the file? From…
In the Magento Admin section, I want to override the "Sales/Order/ShipmentController.php" controller file of the core Mage.
I have tried rewriting the URL, using the "from" & "to" tags, but in vain.
I don't know what is the actual & correct way of doing this, as I'm a newbie in Magento.
Please anybody provide…
I would like to use .htaccess to password protect all inner pages of Magento, except the home page. e.g.
http://www.example.com/abc (password protect)
http://www.example.com (home page, no need to password protect)
I tried to use the setifenv request_uri = "/" => allow, but didn't work. It still password protect…
Hi
When entering code in CMS static block(possible page as well) and in this code there is empty DIV tags such us:
<a href="javascript:hide1(),show2(),hide3()"><div class="dropoff_button"></div></a>
The DIV tags will be gone next time you open the block to edit. it will…
I am trying to create a soap client by passing a url that is hosted on my local machine, my dev environment and I keep getting this error. I use to be able to make this call and it worked just fine.
Basically all I am doing is this
$client = new SoapClient('http://virtual.website.com:81/api/?wsdl');
If I go to…
In Magento I'm creating a custom module and would love to be able to filter automatically by the datetime column so that the intial grid listing shows only entities related to "todays" date.
Here is my datetime column:
$this->addColumn('ts', array(
'header' => $hlp->__('Activated'),
'align' …
I use git for version control. I have a development, staging and production environment. When I finish in development I push to staging for review by the client. When approved, I push changes from staging to production. That works fine as long as there is no database changes. What happens if I install modules via…
Hi
When entering code in CMS static block(possible page as well) and in this code there is empty DIV tags such us:
<a href="javascript:hide1(),show2(),hide3()"><div class="dropoff_button"></div></a>
The DIV tags will be gone next time you open the block to edit. it…