Handy if you (or a client) is locked out, here’s how to reset the admin password, posted on Redstage’s Magento Blog.
Basically, the procedure involves going into the database, finding the appropriate row that contains the password, and assigning the new password using MD5.
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.
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.
