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Adding comments to fields in admin area (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/22 Magento Solutions

It is possible and helpful to add comments to the Magento admin fields. Take a look at the following picture: To add a field and a comment, open your modules system.xml and add the below XML:

<some_thing translate="label">
    <label>Test</label>
    <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
    <sort_order>0</sort_order>
    <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
    <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
    <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
    <comment>Thats a comment!</comment>
<some_thing>

<some_thing translate="label">

<frontend_type>text</frontend_type>

<sort_order>0</sort_order>

<show_in_default>1</show_in_default>

<show_in_website>1</show_in_website>

<show_in_store>1</show_in_store>

<comment>Thats a comment!</comment>

<some_thing>

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Removing estimated shipping from cart (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/17 Magento Solutions

To remove the estimated shipping block from the Magento cart, you have to add the below code, or, if the checkout_cart_index handle already exists, simply add the checkout.cart section to it.

<checkout_cart_index>
    <reference name="content">
        <block name="checkout.cart">
            <remove name="checkout.cart.shipping"/>
        </block>
    </reference>
</checkout_cart_index>

<checkout_cart_index>

</block>

</reference>

</checkout_cart_index>

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Getting the shipping address for an order (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/16 Magento Solutions

Use the following code to get the shipping address of a Magento order:

$address = $order->getShippingAddress();

1	$address = $order->getShippingAddress();

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Deleting upsell products directly in the database (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/11 Magento Solutions

Once saved, upsell products can not be removed again easily. Using the following MySQL script, you can delete Magento upsell products from the database.

DELETE link.* FROM catalog_product_link AS link
LEFT JOIN catalog_product_link_type AS linktype ON (linktype.link_type_id = link.link_type_id)
WHERE linktype.code = "up_sell" and product_id = 123;

DELETE link.* FROM catalog_product_link AS link

LEFT JOIN catalog_product_link_type AS linktype ON (linktype.link_type_id = link.link_type_id)

WHERE linktype.code = "up_sell" and product_id = 123;

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Loading a product by id (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/10 Magento Solutions

Use the following code to load a product by id:

$productId = 1234;
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);

1 2	$productId = 1234; $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);

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Removing “in stock” / “sold out” from the product page using CSS (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/09 Magento Solutions

Add the following CSS to youe themes CSS file and the “in stock” / “sold out” information will not be shown on the Magento product page.

.availability.in-stock,
.availability.out-of-stock {
    display: none;
}

.availability.in-stock,

.availability.out-of-stock {

display: none;

}

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Removing items from cart programmatically (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/05 Magento Solutions

Using the following code, you can remove an item from the Magento cart by item id:

$cartHelper = Mage::helper('checkout/cart');
$cartItemId = 123;
$cartHelper->getCart()->removeItem($cartItemId)->save();

$cartHelper = Mage::helper('checkout/cart');

$cartItemId = 123;

$cartHelper->getCart()->removeItem($cartItemId)->save();

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Setting and getting session values (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/04 Magento Solutions

Use the below code to set and get Magento session values:

// set value
$value = 123;
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setValue($value);

// get value
$value = Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getValue();

// set value

$value = 123;

Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setValue($value);

// get value

$value = Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getValue();

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Getting the product for cart item (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/04/03 Magento Solutions

Use the following code to get the matching product of a Magento cart item:

$product = $item->getProduct();

1	$product = $item->getProduct();

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Sending parameters to a static block (Magento 1)

Mex 2013/03/25 Magento Solutions

You have to use so called filters to send parameters to a static block from a template for example. Lets take a look at the following code: Thats the static Magento block:

<a href="{{store url=''}}{{var attributset_name}}/configuration/test/product_id/{{var product_id}}">
    konfigurieren
</a>

konfigurieren

</a>

We want to send attributset_name and product_id…

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Adding comments to fields in admin area (Magento 1)

Removing estimated shipping from cart (Magento 1)

Getting the shipping address for an order (Magento 1)

Deleting upsell products directly in the database (Magento 1)

Loading a product by id (Magento 1)

Removing “in stock” / “sold out” from the product page using CSS (Magento 1)

Removing items from cart programmatically (Magento 1)

Setting and getting session values (Magento 1)

Getting the product for cart item (Magento 1)

Sending parameters to a static block (Magento 1)