Magento – Handy code snippets

Here’s a short list of magento codes to do some of the simple stuff. It’s a little empty at the moment but I’ll keep adding to it over time.

• Check if customer is logged in

  <?php
  $_customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn();
  
  if ($_customer) {
  // do stuff
  }
  ?>
  

• Get product image

  <?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image'); ?>
  

• Show image using current skin path (PHTML)

  <img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/logo.png');?>" alt="logo" />
  

• Show image using current skin path (CMS)

  <img src={{skin url="images/logo.png"}}  />
  

• Show a custom block (CMS)

  {{block type="catalog/product_featured" name="product_featured" as="product_featured" template="catalog/product/featured.phtml"}}
  

• Show a custom block (XML)

  <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.myblock" after="-" template="catalog/navigation/myblock.phtml"/>
  

• Show CMS block (PHTML)

  <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('my_block_identifier')->toHtml() ?>
  

• Show short version of review summary

  <?php echo $this->getReviewsSummaryHtml($_link,"short",true) ?>
  

Suggestions for any more helpful code snippets are more than welcome!

Ben
Creative Lead
MS Internet