Adding A CSS Class To The Body Tag

To add a class via layout XML:

<reference name="root">
    <action method="addBodyClass"><classname>whatever</classname></action>
</reference>

Or to add via code, from a controller or block

if ($root = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('root')) {
    $root->addBodyClass('whatever');
}

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Add A Tab To The Admin Product Screen

Declare an admin layout XML file for your module in your config.xml:

<config>
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        <layout>
            <updates>
                <your_module>
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Adding A Column to a Flat Table

Handy to add attributes to sales_flat_order:

$installer->getConnection()->addColumn(
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    [
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        'length' => ...

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Don't do it!! I did the below:

public function getDefaultEntities()
{
    return array(
        'catalog_product' => array(
            'attributes' => array(
                'size_guide_id' => array(
                 ...

Adding Attribute To Category List Product Collection

Only a core set of attributes are added to the product collection (for the list page) by default. This bit of XML will allow you to add additional attributes to that collection:

<config>
    <frontend>
        <product>
          ...

Creating a Datetime attribute that stores time

Magento has a Datetime backend model but formats a Zend_Date object without the time. So if you want to store datetime (actually with time) you will need to setup your own backend model.

Here is how i've done it:

class Namespace_Module_Mod...

Converting A Quote Attribute To An Order

<config>
    <global>
        <fieldsets>
            <sales_convert_quote>
                <some_attribute>
                    <to_order>*</to_order>
                </some_attribute>
            </sales_convert_q...

Cause FPC To Cache A Route

<config>
    <frontend>
        <cache>
            <requests>
                <frontname>
                    <controller>
                        <action>enterprise_pagecache/processor_category</action>
          ...

Posted by Mike Whitby to Magento (2012-07-13 09:52)

Adding A CSS Class To The Body Tag

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