Breadcrumbs on Magento 1.9
Finding that your breadcrumbs aren’t working in 1.9? Replace the call with <?php echo $this->getLayout()->getBlock(“breadcrumbs”)->toHtml()?>
So… I switched
One sunday morning, in March 2014, I saw an advert on tv that said “How will you tell your child about your lung cancer? How will you tell them that you chose this death over…
Hacking form.mini.phtml – list all options of an attribute
So I needed a slightly customised advanced search for a client. Really I just needed 1 attribute and prices to be searchable from every page on the site. <?php $catalogSearchHelper = $this->helper(‘catalogsearch’); ?> <?php $maxQueryLength=…
Magento – get controller name, action name, router name and module name in template file or in any class file
From Mukesh Chapagain's Blog (http://blog.chapagain.com.np/) - Copied below in case of Link Death
Magento 1.7 – Hiding Part of Price.phtml
In my previous post I showed you some code discovered in a website, which would show you how much you were saving in both currency and percentage on the price output. However my client wanted…
Magento 1.7 – Show Amount Saved as Currency and Percentage per product
An interesting snippet of code landed on my desk today: <?php if($_finalPrice < $_price): ?> <?php <?php $_savePercent = 100 – round(($_finalPrice / $_price) * 100); $_saveAmount = number_format(($_price – $_finalPrice), 2); ?> <p class=”yousave”>…
Magento 1.7 Product with Options and Tiered pricing showing wrong percentage discount (100%)
This was bugging me at work today, found the answer at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13504056/magento-tier-prices-class-declaration-for-tier-price-in-buy-x-for-y-javascri/16022796#16022796 Essentially, when you have a product set up for tiered pricing everything works great until you add custom options to the…
Making A Start
My biggest unexpected surprise this Chrimbo was a Raspberry Pi development kit, from my lovely fiance Fi. Now; being a dreamer with a long list of devices I want to build (most of which run…
And Here It Begins
I’ve smoked since I was far too young to. My father smoked, my aunties, uncles, grandparents smoked, my sisters smoke and all of my friends smoke. For a life time it has been part of…
MCM Scotland – Glasgow Comic Con 2013
We were clever this time, booking a hotel room the night before. We had to journey from Newton Aycliffe to Cumbernauld, then to Cupar, back to Cumbernauld to collect everyone for this con, it was…