When creating your magento theme, you often will want to insert cms static blocks rather than keeping all of the content in the theme. The store owner is going to want to change the content now and again and if you do as much as possible with static blocks, they can be edited in the Magento Admin.
Place in the appropriate layout file and scope. If this was, for example, a static block in the...
Magento’s XML layout and template framework and the flexibility that it brings is awesome, but unfortunately it does come with its own learning curve. This can take some time getting used to if you’re unfamiliar with Zend Framework and can turn the most trivial of tasks like modifying the links in the footer of a page somewhat more involved.
So let’s have a look at template/page/html/footer.phtml
You will be able to see that this gives...
I have come to the end of my year in industry at Netcraft. I had some good times, I had some bad times. I had some exciting times, I had some frustrating times. All in all, a year well spent and a huge amount learnt.
My most significant technical project was working with Netcraft’s Top 1 Million Busiest Sites list to produce a switching spreadsheet. This not only allows you to see which...
While doing some development on the Meanbee postcode module today on Magento 1.4.0.1, I received the following error:
There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: 1037788671028
It takes 2 seconds to enable this. Go to the magento installation root and then into the errors folder. Subsequently:
cp local.xml.sample local.xml Exception printing is now enabled.