Strange Prototype Class.create behavior
A few more months and it would’ve been a year since the last post. Worry not, this blog hasn’t died – and just to make sure I don’t forget what I want to write, I’ve already prepare a few articles. So stay tuned! But enough with the intro and let’s see what this article is [...]
Patching the Magento USPS module
Since their last update on Jan 3rd, 2011 USPS has stopped working on all of my Magento distro’s. The reason for that is a change in USPS’ response XML values. Magento has its part of blame here, first for not patching it immediately (which again shows how much they care about the CE users) and [...]
Anatomy of a Magento extension
Magento Commerce has been on the OSS “market” for a while now and I see more and more developers, designers and of course store owners migrating their ecommerce sites to Magento or installing it for their new stores. I’ve been coding on Magento since its beta 0.6 version, actually my first integration was based on [...]
Adding Customer Comments as Order Status Comments using Magento & OneStepCheckout
A few days ago I got an email from someone asking me about adding the default customer comments in OneStepCheckout (www.onestepcheckout.com) as regular order comments. I thought I’d share this quick & simple hack with everyone, so here’s what you have to d
Introducing Magento CSS & JS Minifier
As the title says, I’m glad to announce my first public Magento extension (not yet added in the Connect repository). During my 3 years experience with Magento, I’ve worked on a lot of custom extensions, improvements & fixes, but most of them were client-specific, plus they weren’t designed to have a backend interface (with a [...]
How to export customers from orders between certain dates in Magento
Last week a client who runs his store on Magento Commerce asked me how he could export a list of customers who purchased between certain dates in August. Of course, I first went to the Administration area and tried several approaches (order reports, customer reports, data export). Unfortunately nothing worked, so I had to write [...]
Fixing “Catalog Price Rules” cart issue in Magento 1.4.1.0
After recently upgrading one of my stores running Magento Commerce I found out the the latest version (at this time 1.4.1.0) had a major bug. Don’t want to sound too harsh, but unfortunately Magento’s support was again awful – there have been one thread on the forum and one issue in their bug tracking system [...]
Adding Customer Comments on Invoice PDFs in Magento (using OneStepCheckout)
I’ve recently installed OneStepCheckout (http://www.onestepcheckout.com/) on a couple of Magento installations. The extension is very nice, really simple to integrate and I expect to see better conversion rates on the checkout process. One cool thing is that it comes with the option of activating Customer Order Comments – it adds a textarea field on the [...]
Fixing PNG CSS backgrounds on IE6
Today I was stuck (again) on a really annoying IE6 glitch. In the photo, screenshot #1 is the correct display in IE6 after the fix (and all other “sane” browsers before the fix), while screenshot #2 shows the glitch. Basically, IE6 decided to replicate the beginning of the same image on all items. You might [...]
Reducing the number of CSS requests
One common problem with larger/trafficked websites is that they end up serving a considerable amount of css data. Most of the frontend developers use individual style sheets for resets, structure, design, homepage / innerpages and so on. In fact, there’s no other rule here than keeping the css code as maintainable as possible. This also [...]
