Magento – Show cart quantity

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’); ?> [...]

A website we developed recently required some boxes on the homepage that link through to a specific category each, and each box needed to show an image from a random product from within that category. If you would like to do the same, here’s how it’s done: Create a PHTML file in your template folder, [...]

One of the most frequent requests we get for Magento sites is to tame what the thumbnails do on the product page. Of course there are plenty of plugins for adding a lightbox of some sort, but if you simply want to swap out the image in the zoomer window for one of the thumbnails, [...]

SagePay is the UK and Ireland’s most popular payment gateway and Magento is rapidly gaining popularity so the absence of a SagePay Form Magento plugin is not ideal. Hopefully we have helped to fill that gap with our free plugin available at http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/3060/sagepay-formerly-protx-form.

To speed up the process of uploading the Magento software without SSH access we have created this easy downloader to fetch and unpack the files and install the sample data in a MySQL database.