Magento – How to find if you are on homepage – getIsHomePage
I needed to exclude hot products and recently viewed products block from homepage, so I needed to find if the current page is homepage. The first block of code worked on header.phtml template but not in main page template, so I ended up using 2nd option.

If you need to check this on header.phtml template then use this code:

If you want to check from other pages than do this:

Magento, on administration side, has the concept of “grid”, a table with ability to filter, order, page a collection of data. For example the product list is a grid.

A grid is usually initialized on block implementation that “prepares columns” and when I needed to change the columns of a grid I overloaded the block implementation with a class of mine extending the original one.

The latest modification I made on Magento was on product list tab present on category detail. I found incredibly stupid in Magento the absence of a category filter on product management panel and an edit action on product list on category detail.

Since the simpler thing was to add an action to that table I overrided the

Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Category/Tab/Product.php

Setting the Default Currency for a User in

$currentCurrency = $this->getCurrentCurrencyCode();

if(!isset($currentCurrency)) $currentCurrency = ‘NA’;

$currencies = array(“GBP”,”USD”,”EUR”);

if(isset($_GET['cy']))

Convert Magento Database to Innodb

ALTER TABLE `admin_assert` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `admin_role` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `admin_rule` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `admin_user` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `adminnotification_inbox` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `api_assert` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `api_role` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `api_rule` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `api_user` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `catalog_category_entity` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `catalog_category_entity_datetime` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `catalog_category_entity_decimal` ENGINE=InnoDB;
ALTER TABLE `catalog_category_entity_int` ENGINE=InnoDB;

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