Disabling A Category
For some reason this does not work:
$category->setIsActive(false);
You must use this instead:
$category->setIsActive(0);
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Fetching All Attributes For An Entity From The DB In One Query
Using the database to inspect EAV-based entity types can be a real pain in the ass, so here are a bunch of queries that let you inspect some popular EAV entity types easily. This practice can be applied to any EAV entity type, however as there are...
Product Attribute Addition
This code shows all possible configuration options for an attribute that I know of, you need not include all of these when adding an attribute (although it won't hurt)
$installer = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/setup', 'catalog_setup');
...
Add Category Attributes Through SQL Updates
This is creating a module which will update categories to include new attributes.
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inside app/etc/modules/yourmodule.xml put the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <Yourmodule_Sql>...
Associating An Orphan Sage Pay Suite Transaction With An Order
We had a situation whereby a client placed an order and went through Sage Pay
succesfully, however the order was not able to be created on Magento, so we had
an error stating "WARNING - There are approved Sage Pay transactions that have
no associa...
Stock Availability on Credit Note, Cancellation and Payment Deny
In summary - making a credit memo can increase the stock quantity but will never set the "Stock Availability" of the product to "In Stock", whereas a config option can control whether an order cancellation sets "In Stock" automatically. Denying a ...
Product EAV Attribute Set, Group and Attribute List
To see a list of all attribute sets, groups, and associated attributes for products, use this SQL. BONUS! Also shows the sort ordering, useful for determining which sort_order
you need to place an attribute in a certain position:
SELECT...
Pretty Backtrace / Stack Trace
In app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php
Magento offers a function named mageDebugBacktrace()
which is nice, but I thought could be made nicer. This backtrace shows frame numbers, file names and line numbers, classes, methods and arguments whe...
Many to Many Resource Model Mapping
This is some boilerplate code to facilitate the use of many-to-many relationship tables in Magento. I found myself rewriting this code often, so this saves some time. This example links a sizeguide entity to attribute sets. Obviously you'll need t...
Non-Required Category Attribute Not Set in Global Scope
When a category is created whilst in a store scope, and a value is set against an attribute which has is_required
set to false
, and has a scope more specific than global
, then a value is not set against the global scope, resulting in the sto...
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>
...