In this post I will show you how to write a basic magento model to do AMD activities to a db table. Under package “Mypackage” & module “Mymod” we will create model Test so that we can do AMD with table named “test”. 1.Here we first create a table test in db. 1 CREATE TABLE `test` ( 2 `test_id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY , 3 `name` VARCHAR( 25 ) NOT NULL ......

Are you using date-time functions (date(), time(),now(), etc) directly inside magento ??? Think twice man !!! Even though time is set properly in you server or you set right timezone in your php.ini file, you might be surprised to see the result of the following code :- 1 //This time will not match your server time 2 $now = time(); 3 echo date('m/d/y h:i:s', time()); This is because wha......

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    /**      * Action list where need check enabled cookie      *      * @var array      */     protected $_cookieCheckActions = array('add');     /**      * Retrieve shopping cart model object      *      * @return Mage_Checkout_Model_Cart      */     protected function _getCart()     {         return Ma......

public function indexAction()     {         $apiUer = 'aland';         $apiKey = '123456';         $apiPath = 'catalog_product.list';         $null = '';         $catNeedle=0;         $filters = array(            'sku' => array('like'=>'nba'),  &nb......

$collection = $this->getProductCollection($storeId); $select =  $collection->getSelect(); $select->join(array('cat_index'=>'catalog_category_product_index'),"cat_index.product_id=e.entity_id and cat_index.store_id='$storeId' AND cat_index.category_id in ('10','17')",array('*')); $select->where("cat_index.product_id>35")                ->orWhere("cat_index.product_id<135"); $select->limit(7,2);//first param is the rows num......

$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->setStoreId($storeId)                       ->addAttributeToSelect("*"); $collection->getSelect()->join(array('cat_index'=>'catalog_category_product_index'),"cat_index.product_id=e.entity_id and cat_index.store_id='$storeId' AND cat_index.category_id in ($catsString)",array('*'));   more details :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3949470/how-to-select-specific-......

Here’s short overview: / app - is where the application resides / app / etc - is global configuration den / app / code - is where modules have installed their models and controllers / app / code / core - are core team developed or certified modules / app / code / community - are community contributed modules / app / code / local - are local customizations / app / code / core / Mage - magento default namespace / app / code / core / Mage / {Module} - module root / app / code / core / Mage / {Module} / etc - module configuration / app / code / cor......

Page request flow   Preliminary core modules dependency diagram     ......

Important Paths / -Directory Root /app - This is where all the php code for the application resides /lib - The external code library. /skin - This is where css and other images reside Thats the quick overview. /app /code - Where all modules reside /design - Contains both layout xml files and template .phtml files /etc - Global configuration Mage.php - Static class Mage, where everything is held together. Before I move on to the other two directories (/lib, /skin) I’ll explain the directories......