In this category it’s all about Magento eCommerce. It’s my favorite open source shopsystem to buildup great shopping platforms. In this category I write about version 1.x related things. Version 2.x will get it’s own category in this blog.
To get all attribute options from a Magento dropdown attribute (select field) you can use the following snippet: <?php $oAttibute = Mage::getModel(‘eav/config’)->getAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY, ‘sheldon_special’); $aOptions = $oAttibute->getSource()->getAllOptions(); var_dump($aOptions); That gives you an array like that: <?php $aOptions = {array} [6] 0 = {array} [2] label = “” value = “” 1 = {array} [2] label = […]
Recently I had performance issues when importing several ten tausend products. The problem was, that I always used the “normal” product entity model to load attribute values. The following snippet shows, how to load product attributes directly instead. Therefore I use the product resource singleton. <?php $iProductId = $aChange[‘pid’]; $oItem = new Varien_Object; /** * […]
This Magento shell script sorts the values of a given attribute after the order of values in a given CSV file (sets option value position). <?php /** * * Magento * * NOTICE OF LICENSE * * This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0) * It is available through the world-wide-web at […]
Naturally you can query Magento database directly as described in my earlier post about querying Magento database. But a much smarter way is it, to use exiting Magento objects and constructs like that: <?php /** * Sets position (sort order) values for the given attribute for a given option value. Therefore the given store specific value […]
This is how to get product EAVÂ attribute ID without querying the database directly: <?php $iAttributeID = Mage::getSingleton(‘eav/config’)->getAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY, self::TARGET_ATTRIBUTE)->getId()
The following snippet shows, how to create database tables in a setup script. It uses no direct queries against the database but the an object oriented way Magento does such things. (This snipped assumes  that your resource setup model is derived from Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup) <?php /** * * Magento * * NOTICE OF LICENSE * * This […]
Sometimes Magento indexes hang up unexpectedly. They are shown as running in Magento backend but looking at the process status (@see https://www.ask-sheldon.com/list-processes-after-cpu-usage/), you recognize that the respective process doesn’t do anything. Other common problems are, that there are payment transactions failures when price index is running (catalog_product_price @see http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/260/price-re-index-causes-db-deadlocks-during-checkout) or that the search doesn’t work properly, […]
I already told you about the great Magento – commandline tool Magerun from netz98 in an earlier post. And my opinion didn’t change in the last years. It is one of the most useful tools working with Magento and it made my daily developer live so much easier. Magerun became a de facto standard commandline […]
Recently I had the strange problem. In an old Magento installation there where many simple products connected to parent-ids that didn’t exist anymore. Normally that should’t be possible because of foreign key constraints in MySQL but  in fact they where there. Perhaps there was a bug in an importer script or foreign key checks where […]
Since Magento 1.9.1 you can force HTTPS for the whole shop by adding the following configuration-snipped to /app/etc/config.xml or any module config.xml (own module!!!): <frontend> <secure_url> <all>/</all> </secure_url> </frontend> After cleaning the config cache, Magento should generate secure URLs everywhere. That’s how to force secure URL’s in Magento.
