Custom EAV Frontend Input Renderer

When you need to display an image in a column, or format a value in a particular way, you can use a custom renderer to present the data differently.

Frontend With Route:

<config>
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <namespace_module>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>Namespace_Module</module>
       ...

Frontend:

<config>
    <frontend>
        <events>
            <the_name_of_the_event_to_observe>
                <observers>
                    <namespace_module>
                        <class>namespace_module/obser...

Frontend:

<config>
    <frontend>
        <layout>
            <updates>
                <namespace_module>
                    <file>namespace-module.xml</file>
                </namespace_module>
            </up...

If you have custom attributes named the same across multiple products, you
wish to remove said attributes, this might come in useful. The SQL below restricts
the removal of the attributes to a certain attribute set name, but you can remove
this is...

Overview

A overview for those familiar with making flat models:

• Your config is standard, your table name takes the form of the base (entity) table
• You name your resource models as normal (so by class name, you can't tell the difference b...

EAV:

<config>
    <global>
        <resources>
            <namespace_module_setup>
                <setup>
                    <module>Namespace_Module</module>
                    <class>Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup</...

A list of EAV tables and their purpose.

|----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Table | Contains ...

Adding this XML will cause an additional entry to appear in the Magento Cache Management screen.

<global>
    <cache>
        <types>
             <your_cache_type module="your_module" translate="label description">
          ...

$afterElementHtml = '<p class="nm"><small>' . ' this is the hint! ' . '</small></p>';

$linkFieldset->addField('field_name', 'text', array(
    'after_element_html' => $afterElementHtml,
));

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