Back in they day, I ran a Tumblr blog named Magento Quickies where I’d post shorter, less in-depth posts about my travels through Magento’s source code. This Programming Quickies categories is the successor to that Tumblr blog. You’ll find all the old Magento Quickies content here, as well as new short posts about programming in general.
This section has its own RSS feed, the old Magento Quickies feed should should be redirecting, and we’re cross posting notifications for new posts over to magento-quickies.tumblr.com. In other words, you shouldn’t need to know any of this, but the duct tape that keeps the internet held together isn’t aging well, so your mileage may vary.
Below you'll find all the Programming Quickies articles on the site, followed by a chronological listing of the same. You may also browse the 7 series directly via the following links. Pestle, Four Steps to Async Iterators, Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020, Text Encoding and Unicode, Shopware's Development Environment, A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, and, Containers, Containers, Containers.
So here’s something I didn’t know about until 15 minutes ago. When you’re creating a Layout Update XML block, you can automatically assign a block you’ve created as a child of another block with a parent attribute in your block tag. That means this <block type="foo/bar" parent="block_name_in_layout" ... /> [...]
astormShort URLs for Magento CE Versions One of those things I wish I’d thought of. bit.ly/mage1610 bit.ly/mage1510 bit.ly/mage1420 bit.ly/mage1411
astormList of Magento’s Javascript Validation Methods Good sum up of Magento’s Javascript input validation methods.
astormMagento 2: File Structure Changes No one document could cover ALL the changes in Magento 2, but this one does a good job of pointing out file structure changes, which in turn hint at much of the restructuring going on.
astormUpgrading via. Magento Connect A terse, but useful, Magento wiki page on using Magento Connect’s command line to upgrade your Magento installation.
astormShorter Setup Resource Name for 1.6+ I haven’t had time to test things, but according to this comment it sounds like the resource model rejiggering in CE 1.6+ also brings about shorter setup resource script names.
astormCrash Course in Magento Models for a Java Developer
astormOverview of the ./mage CLI Magento Connect Tool
astormDjango Style Routes for Magento In case you you don’t follow my main site (what’s wrong with you?), I whipped up a module that allows you to setup Django style routes in Magento.
astormClass Aliases Should be Lowercase A painful lesson on why class aliases should always be lowercase.
astormFantastic Magento Performance White Paper They’ve got both a random list of server settings and their methodology. More like this please.
astormThe public Magento Wiki is a mess of mixed content, but it’s worth subscribing to the RSS feed of recent changes. The more dedicated members of the community tend to keep their articles up to date on changes to Community Edition, and it can sometimes save you from being blindsided when considering a new version.
astormBecause I always forget this: When creating Magento Connect packages for manual distribution, created via the admin, the correct value for “Channel” is community and not connect.magentocommerce.com/community
astormYou’re cruising along, your module has come together. The last step between you and total Magento Connect domination is packaging your extension. You bravely enter System -> Magento Connect -> Package Extension, and with victory in your grasp … FAILURE! With no clear path forward, you commit seppuku rather than face [...]
astormOn the Subject of Finding the PHP Code that Runs During a Magento API Method Call
astormMagento Version: 1.5.0.1 Let’s say you have a product object $p = Mage::getProduct('catalog/product')->load(3425); You can get the value of the product’s status with the magic getter method or the getData method. $p->getStatus() $p->getData('status'); However, the return value of this method is not a boolean. The [...]
astormChecking shipping availability from zipcode in Magento.
astormNeed to know the name of an EAV table that an attribute is stored in? Get an instance of the model class, $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer'); then get a reference to its resource object, $entity = $customer->getResource(); and use the eav/config service model’s getCollectionAttribute method to create an instance of [...]
astormNeed to know the name of an EAV table that an attribute is stored in? Get an instance of the model class $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer'); and then get a reference to its resource object $entity = $customer->getResource(); use the eav/config service model’s getCollectionAttribute method to create an instance of [...]
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