Implementing Alphabetical Search in Magento

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Posted on February 11th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Implementing alphabetical search in Magento can be tedious if you dont know the right approach. But its as easy as anything. You just need to alter two files to make it work.
Note: Do not edit or add this code to your core files if you wish to upgrade Magento to newer versions in the future. Please create below mentioned files in the app/core/code/local directory with complete directory structure as in Magento core.

app\code\local\Mage\Catalog\Block\Product\List\Toolbar.php

public function setCollection($collection)
    {
        $this->_collection = $collection;

        $this->_collection->setCurPage($this->getCurrentPage());

        // we need to set pagination only if passed value integer and more that 0
        $limit = (int)$this->getLimit();

60 Tools and Tutorials for Magento

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Posted on February 10th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Magento is a highly customizable ecommerce platform to build and run online stores. But with that flexibility comes some level of complexity, and sometimes you need help.

Here is a list of Magento tutorials and resources. There are tools to help you get started and walk you through Magento features, including are two article series on building and customizing Magento themes. Also there are free video tutorials, downloadable themes, and examples of Magento stores. In short, here is everything you need to jump into Magento.

Getting Started

Here are resources to get you started with Magento, as well as links to the Magento community.

1. Magento: Ecommerce Platform for Growth. The official Magento website. Download Magento, tap into resources, and connect with the Magento community.

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

Magento WordPress Integration Plugin Surfaces In Market

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Posted on February 6th, 2012 | Posted by admin

Here is a good news for all WordPress lovers who find it hard to work with Magento. The Magento WordPress Integration plugin for WordPress primarily allows you to initiate an instance of your local Magento installation in your WordPress theme. This allows you to communicate with your Magento store to bring in certain elements that are usually unavailable, such as the mini shopping cart, navigation, logos, static blocks, and more.

The Magento WordPress Integration plugin also allows you to show any number of Magento products in a WordPress post or page, with the ability to add simple products straight to the Magento shopping cart.

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: