So I have been working on a Magento module that hides the price when the user is not logged in. I got it working thanks to AlanStorm but I just want to make sure it I’m going for the best approach.

What I did is setting a different template for the *catalog_product_price_template* block and from there I did all the logic

<?php   $_message = Mage::getStoreConfig('catalog/pricehideconfig/title');
        $_enabled = Mage::getStoreConfig('catalog/pricehideconfig/active');
        $_current_template = Mage::getBaseDir('design')

As you may know, Magento Design Fall-Back is used to render themes from the Magento basic templates and the most important part of this article will make you focus on the fall-back hierarchy. Let’s me show you more details as below:

The fall-back hierarchy is described from Custom_theme -> default_theme -> base -> error.

Please take a look at the following diagram:

Customizing the ‘New Order Confirmation Email‘ template in Magento may be a havoc for the first time if you do not know the write way. But it is as easy as anything. Recently I needed to customize the item information in the ‘New Order Confirmation Email’. I googled a number of links but found nothing useful. Then I decided to find my own way, and after 2 hours of hard work I found a simple way. Here are the steps to customize the email template:

1. In the Magento Admin panel go to ‘System > Transactional Emails’ and click on ‘Add New Template’.
2. In the ‘Load default template’ container select ‘New Order’ in the ‘Template’ dropdown. Alse select our desired ‘Locale’.
3. Click on ‘Load Template’. It will load the Default email template to edit for you. Now you can edit the ‘Template Subject’ and ‘Template Content’ to suit your needs. See the following screenshot: