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IE6 Phantom Text / Duplicate Text Bug

Antonio — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:56:31 +0000

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

Magento Clear Shopping Cart and Session

Antonio — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:29:21 +0000

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.

Clear shopping cart

foreach( Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getItemsCollection() as $item ){
    Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->removeItem( $item->getId() )->save();
}

Clear entire session

Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/session’)->clear();

Happy coding!

Clear Magento Customers, Orders, Searches, and Tags

Antonio — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:55:07 +0000

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.

Fortunately, removing test data is as easy as running SQL queries:

Clear customers:

TRUNCATE TABLE `customer_entity`

Clear orders:

TRUNCATE TABLE `sales_order`

Clear searches:

TRUNCATE TABLE `catalogsearch_query`

Clear tags:

TRUNCATE TABLE `tag`
TRUNCATE TABLE `tag_relation`

You might have expected to meddle with other tables, like all the `sales_order_*` or `customer_entity_*` tables. However, thanks to the database’s various constraints, any related rows are automatically deleted thus preventing orphan data.