Just for purposes of documenting this useful knowledge:
When viewing in Internet Explorer 6 and experiencing the “strange-repeated-text” problem, try applying this CSS to the element containing the text that gets repeated:
float: none;
clear: both;
Knowledge from: http://uxdev.blogspot.com/2008/10/phantom-text-in-ie6.html
When using $this->getSkinUrl(‘path/to/yourfile.html’) inside view (.phtml) code, and you’re getting /default/default/ instead of /default/yourtheme, this isn’t Magento working incorrectly. Check the $argument you send and verify that the target file actually exists.
getSkinUrl() does more than just generate the proper URL, it also verifies that the file exists. If it doesn’t find the file within the store’s /yourtheme folder, it will revert to /default.
I had a problem with your PHP code running or executing seemingly twice. To debug this phenomenon, I put some write-to-file code at the beginning of the script. Surprisingly, whenever I loaded my script in the browser, the file would be written to twice despite my one page load.
The problem was that The page I was developing had an <img> in it with the “src” attribute set blank. When the document was fully loaded, javascript was in place to dynamically assign the “src”. This worked perfectly fine in the pre-server-side-logic stage of development so it was an easy decision to begin debugging server-side logic.
The double execute happens when Firefox sees <img src=”" />. Not knowing what source to assign, it sends a request (the second request) to the current path (again) for the image. Therein lies the problem. It’s interesting to note that Firefox is not to blame, as it’s following HTML specification.
If you ever need to programmatically clear Magento’s shopping cart, use the snippet of code below. If you need to clear the user’s entire session, including the shopping cart, shipping information, billing information and chosen payment methods, please refer to the snippet further below.
A client wanted every checkout on his site to be a guest checkout. He was selling a very niche product and wanted to avoid hassling potential customers with a user log-in or registration form. The goal was to modify Magento’s One Page Checkout to completely skip Step 1: Login/Register and show Step 2: Billing Information.
From the Magento dashboard, there is no intuitive way of deleting/clearing/resetting customer, order, search, or tag data. As developers, we have to test the various functions of our specific Magento setup before presenting it to the client. Before the site can go live, all of the test data has to be removed so it doesn’t interfere with the client’s other business functions such as accounting and inventory.
Let’s say for example that configurable product A is defined to have 2 attributes “color” and “size”. Values for color may be: Black, White, Chrome while values for size may be: 1″, 2″, 3″, and 4″.
One would expect that there should be a price matrix that might look like:
| 1″ | 2″ | 3″ | 4″ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | $1.00 | $1.20 | $1.40 | $1.60 |
| White | $1.05 | $1.25 | $1.45 | $1.65 |
| Chrome | $1.15 | $1.35 | $1.55 | $1.75 |
