Magento Developer User Guide Version 1.0 Submitted by TheUnical Technologies theunical.com | blog.theunical.com [email protected] | [email protected] All the content of this document is taken from Magento Wiki, Blog and other references. The Purpose of this document is to help those new users. TheUnical Technologies Table of Contents Magento Developer User Guide ................................................................................................................... 9 Add Featured Products to Home Page .................................................................................................... 9 Add Bestsellers to Home Page using the best-selling box of Blue Theme ............................................ 9 How to Fix the Breadcrumbs of Inactive Categories ........................................................................... 11 Create Payment Method Module ........................................................................................................... 13 Create Shipping Method Module ........................................................................................................... 21 Module doesn't appear in frontend.................................................................................................... 35 Module doesn't appear in admin. ....................................................................................................... 36 Backend shows errormessage when displaying the shippingmethod ................................................ 36 Magento Architecture ............................................................................................................................. 37 Page request flow ................................................................................................................................... 37 Preliminary core modules dependency diagram .................................................................................... 37 Changing and Customizing Magento Code ............................................................................................. 39 Subversion ........................................................................................................................................... 39 Upgrading to a newer version ............................................................................................................. 40 Custom Modules ................................................................................................................................. 42 Blocks .................................................................................................................................................. 43 Step 2) Add Block configuration to catalog.xml .................................................................................... 45 Step 4) Extend Mage_Catalog_Block_Category_View .......................................................................... 47 Step 6) Add new blocks to the app/etc/local.xml ................................................................................. 48 Magento Easy Lightbox ........................................................................................................................... 49 http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1487/magento-easy-lightbox ............................... 49 TheUnical Technologies CSS Resources ......................................................................................................................................... 50 Creating CSS buttons vs Image buttons .................................................................................................. 52 The CSS ................................................................................................................................................ 53 Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method) ................................... 55 Magento’s Import/Export Profile ........................................................................................................ 60 The New Magento Connect Design (part 1) ....................................................................................... 62 Installing Magento Enterprise stand-alone on OS X ............................................................................... 63 Pre-Production System Configuration Checklist ................................................................................. 65 1: System -> Configure -> General ....................................................................................................... 65 2: System > Configuration > Sales ....................................................................................................... 66 3: System -> Advanced ........................................................................................................................ 67 4: System -> Transactional Emails ....................................................................................................... 68 Top-10 Most Popular Magento Extensions This Week (Jan 31 - Feb. 5) ............................................ 70 Multi-site Domain Name Setup .......................................................................................................... 71 1: Categories ....................................................................................................................................... 71 2: Store Configuration in the Magento Admin ................................................................................... 71 3: Store Configuration in the Server ................................................................................................... 74 4: We’re Ready to Go! ......................................................................................................................... 75 Magento Free Shipping ....................................................................................................................... 76 Changing the Magento ‘favicon’ ......................................................................................................... 79 How to Embed Google Custom Search in Magento ........................................................................... 80 Reward Points System......................................................................................................................... 84 Reward Points System......................................................................................................................... 84 Magento Development: Introduction to Magento Dataflow ............................................................. 85 Dataflow profile definition .................................................................................................................... 85 TheUnical Technologies Adapter definition .................................................................................................................................. 85 Magento DataFlow standard adapters .................................................................................................. 86 Customer and Product adapters ............................................................................................................ 86 Parser definition ..................................................................................................................................... 88 Magento DataFlow standard parsers .................................................................................................... 88 Standard customer and product entity parsers .................................................................................... 89 Mapping values ...................................................................................................................................... 90 Importing Newsletter Subscribers ...................................................................................................... 91 Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP Stack ................................................................................................................................ 93 Availability ........................................................................................................................................... 94 Replacing the Logo Image in Transactional Emails ............................................................................. 95 How to Configure Magento Widgets .................................................................................................. 96 Overview ............................................................................................................................................. 96 What are Widgets? ............................................................................................................................. 96 How to Develop a Widget ................................................................................................................... 98 Terminology ........................................................................................................................................ 98 Widget Examples in Magento CE 1.4, EE 1.6 ...................................................................................... 99 Tutorial: Creating a Magento Widget, Part 1 ........................................................................................ 100 Introduction .....................................................................................................................................