How to Allow more file types Magento

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Posted on February 17th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Allow more file types to Magento.

I wanted to add a PDF file to the product description but Magento just allow image file types.

Let’s get started.

Core Files

Look for the file: /app/code/Core/Mage/Cms/etc/config.xml

You should create the same folder structure inside /app/local/…

That’s the way to make the change upgrade proof. But I did and didn’t work

How to Show Static Block in theme Magento

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Posted on February 17th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Create an Static Block from your CMS admin tab and show it in your theme.

In my case I wanted to call a Static Block from my theme to show up in the sidebar.

I edited my theme file called 2columns-left.phtml and then added the following code.

Please notice you need to replace the YourBlockId with your own Static Block Id.

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock(‘cms/block’)
->setBlockId(‘YourBlockId’)->toHtml() ?>

How To Customize Magento Mobile App Colors For iPhone

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Posted on February 6th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Magento is a strong eCommerce application which gives the flexibility to have to a customized iPhone customized theme with lots of different color variant. Magento empowers to use any preset color palette or use one from scratch to match with your site’s design.

I am going to present screenshots of a Magento mobile app for iPhone where i am showing you how to customize your iPhone app with lots of colors and images. I am assuming you are using Enterprise Magento software.

1. Magento Mobile App in Magento Admin Panel

How To Configure Magento On Lightweight Ningx Web Server

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Posted on February 6th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Apache in itself is big and consume too much memory and resources. Ningx web server on the other hand doesn’t consume resources as Apache and somewhat less resource crazy. Running Magento powered eCommerce on nginx have several speed specific advantages but configuring ngnix for Magento is not as easy as configuring Magento on Apache.

Believe me or not but Magento is a resource hungry application and when the traffic or bot comes, it puts immense load on Apache server (running on low RAM), in such scenarios all you can do is to restart your Apache to resume normal operation. Fortunately, ngnix will save you from restarting the server every time the load is too high. In the following configuration i am making sure that your Magento installation runs fine on http and https both. Now, lets add SSL support in your nginx.conf file

How To Use Shortcodes In Magento eCommerce

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Posted on February 6th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Shortcodes are simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in CMS pages or blocks. If you are familiar with WordPress you must be aware about how placing ["gallery"] in your post content replaces this shortcode with real gallery. Similarly, Magento has it’s own shortcodes which you can use in Magento CMS pages, Product pages, Category pages or blocks. Magento shortcode syntax is fairly simple to understand as the real shortcode is placed inside double curly braces. The most common of all is

<a href="{{store url=""}}">Home Page</a>
In this the {{store url=""}} is replaced by actual store URL. Apart from that there are other

 Magento shortcodes which i am listing below:
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