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Over 1.4 Million downloads, 30,000+ merchants and over $25 Billion in transactions processed through the Magento platform.  Top brands running Magento include Vizio, Lenovo, 3M, Nespresso, The North Face, Homedics, Myla, Stussy, Samsung and many more... The Magento Enterprise Edition subscription was released in April , making available the first Enterprise Open Source eCommerce Platform alternative to Enterprise Commercial offerings Forrester Research named Magento as an ‘ Emerging Player To Watch ’ in the eCommerce space Magento Connect , Magento’s marketplace for third party extensions and enhancements reaches over 1,500 contributed extensions Magento saw continued adoption by some of the world’s largest brands ( Magento Spotting: Apparel and Accessories Roundup ) The new Magento Solution Partner program was announced targeting larger, established eCommerce specialized partners, capable of expanding awareness and adoption of Magento around the world. Over 40 partners were...

Supported Operating Systems: Linux x86, x86-64 Supported Web Servers: Apache 1.3.x Apache 2.0.x Apache 2.2.x Supported Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above Apple Safari 2.x Google Chrome Adobe Flash browser plug-in should be installed PHP Compatibility: 5.2 Required extensions: PDO_MySQL simplexml mcrypt hash GD DOM iconv curl SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used) Safe_mode off Memory_limit no less than 256Mb (preferably 512) MySQL: 4.1.20 or newer InnoDB storage engine SSL: If HTTPS is used to work in the admin, SSL certificate should be valid. Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported Server - hosting - setup: Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5 Ability to override options in .htaccess files

Hello magento ecommerce user:   After installation of magento then there is problem about login to magento admin panel.   When I commented the lines (81:82:83)of   ===>>  app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\varein.php   commented these lines:      /*$this->getCookie()->getDomain(),             $this->getCookie()->isSecure(),             $this->getCookie()->getHttponly()*/ Then easily i logged to magento admin panel at localhost. Cheers...

Google Application Engine is a new free application for all who can't afford domain and hosting as well as development expenses. Google provide you free solution for your business. Using Google Application Engine , you don't need to write any code - best of all- it's free!    Download the software from Google application engine https://appengine.google.com and develop page and upload at server. Everyone round the world, can visit your site easily.    Before we start this application, you have to download software Development Kit (SDK) from : http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html   There is SDK available in 2 formats: Java and Python. Google App Engine is the same like Amazon S3....we call it Cloud Computing , which is the most modern technology on the market in the moment.(mobile computing) no backup or whatever necessary. Google didnt want the old php language, because to restricted...so they use python and java    ---continue-...

Special thanks to Wikipedia.com Diwali is a significant festival in Hinduism , Sikhism , and Jainism , and an official holiday in India and other countries. Spiritual significance While Divali is popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant spiritual meaning is "the awareness of the inner light". Central to Hindu philosophy is the assertion that there is something beyond the physical body and mind which is pure, infinite, and eternal, called the Atman . Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Deepavali is the celebration of this inner light, in particular the knowing of which outshines all darkness (removes all obstacles and dispels all ignorance), awakening the individual to one's true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality. With the realization of the Atman comes universal compassion, love, and the awareness of the oneness of all things (higher knowledge). This brings A...

I mainly focus on development of applications for facebook, and sometime we will also review interesting applications and their cool features which you might have stumbled upon. stay with me, I will try to answer all of your questions in this blog. echo "hello readers of fbcookbook" ; ?> facing trouble to trigger multiple onload event to work FBJS does not allow acess to the window object. So how can onload event fire when is loaded on canvas. also FBJS is executed after the entire page has been loaded. so really shouldn’t matter where you call the function within your canvas page file. however let’s see how can we trigger on load for multiple div. In this example we create two div which load by onload. One is for content a message and another which load the value by ajax way. For that reason in FBJS we create a varraible array and pushing two functions on that array variable. var onload = []; onload.push( function () { //ONLOAD STUFFS HER...

1. Layout your Structural Blocks When you begin the implementation process, first ask yourself this question: What are the layout needs of my store? What this simply means is: “Will my store always have a left column? Or will some pages have a left, main and a right column? Or perhaps some of the pages will just one column?”. These questions are imperative because the variations of page structure will directly determine the number of skeleton templates you will need to create - For instance, if you have a one column and a 3 column layout, you will need to create two skeleton template accordingly. But before we go further, let’s first look at what a skeleton template looks like. html > head > head > body > div class= "header" > = $this -> getChildHtml ( 'header' ) ?> div > div class= "middle" > div class= "col-left" > = $this -> getChildHtml ( 'left' ) ?> div > div class= "col-main" ...

Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework . Magento is available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. Magento Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento aimed at larger companies, was launched on April 15, 2009. General Feature List: Site Management Mobile Commerce Marketing Promotions and Tools International Support Search Engine Optimization Checkout Shipping Payment Order Management Customer Service Customer Accounts Catalog Management Catalog Browsing Product Browsing Analytics and Reporting Customer Reviews Cross-Selling Customer Tags Compare Products Wishlists Google Base Integration Google Website Optimizer Integration History: Varien, the company that owns Magento, formerly worked with osCommerce, touting themselves as the US leaders in osCommerce. They origin...

I have been playing with this for my shop home page. The following works ok for me: in the CMS, modify the homepage, setting the content to: div class= "product-info-box" > div class= "product-essential" > {{block type = "catalog/product_view" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/home.phtml" }} div class= "product-img-box" > {{block type = "catalog/product_view_media" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/view/home-media.phtml" }} div > div class= "product-shop" > h1 > Home Page h1 > div class= "collateral-box" > div class= "head" > h4 > Work in Progress h4 > div > {{block type = "catalog/product_view" product_id = "21" template = "catalog/product/view/home-description.phtml" }} div > div > di...

step-by-step: 1. Create the attribute switcher 2. Create the cms blocks 3. Modifiy the view.phtml 1. Create the attribute switcher Admin - Catalog - Attributes - Manage Attributes - Add New Attribute Attribute Code: info01 Scope: Global (or what you want) Catalog Input Type for Store Owner: Yes/No following lines as default .... .... .... .... Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: No ... ... Click left site - Manage Label Option Admin Info 01 SAVE Attribute Repeat the Add New Attribute with info02, info03, info04 .... so much cms blocks you will have. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now the atrributes becomes a homeland where do you can use this. Every Product have a Attribute Set. Standard = Default. So i.e. we put the new Attributes in the default Set. Admin - Catalog - Attributes - Manage Attributes sets - select Default. On the right site you will see the new attributes. Click on the first and hold the mouse switch, mov...

By using static blocks you are able to create content for category pages, allowing you to showcase items and promotions instead of just displaying the grid list of products. To create a static block go to CMS -> Static Blocks , then select Add New Block. In this case we are going to create a block for use on the Cell Phone sub-category page. We enter the Block title, for internal use, and the identifier, which will create the URL for this page. We then select the store we want to use the Block on, in this case all stores, and set the Block to enabled. Once that is done we enter our content in an HTML Format and select Save Block. Now that we have the block created we set it up for use on the Cell Phone sub-category page as described in the Creating and Managing Categories. The static blocks are incredibly flexible, allowing you to create something as simple as a text category description, or something as intricate as multiple image maps, such as what we are showcasing on the Electro...

Magento static block in cms page: you can write some special tag in cms page for call the magento static block like: xxxxx How to call a static block from template files? to add a static block into footer.phtml: 1) add a new static block (in this example Identifier is my_footer_block ) 2) layout/page.xml in: block type = "page/html_footer" name = "footer" as= "footer" template = "page/html/footer.phtml" > add a: block type = "cms/block" name = "my_footer_block" > action method = "setBlockId" > block_id > my_footer_block block_id > action > block > so in this example it will looks like: block type = "page/html_footer" name = "footer" as= "footer" template = "page/html/footer.phtml" > block type = "page/switch" name = "store_switcher" as= "store_switcher...

Magento static Blocks are used as a banner and other external links. We can show our new shop features through static blocks. If we design our site in magento and completely different from magento then we use static blocks. Login Block, Catalog Blocks, Special Products , and etc ..... we show the blocks , we will go at magento admin panel and create static blokc in cms /content section. if we define static block position, we will write like this: continue.....

Magento is a new ecommerce Model. Magento use zend frame work. It developed in mvc model. Magento have lot of options. It is suitable for ecom based shops. CMS: ------- Magento have content management system utility. there is also static block options. ---- continue ------------

Magento is a ecommerce model under open source lisence. Magento is a newest fastly growing e-com model. It have lot of functionalites, more user friendly and easy to use. ---- ........................ comming soon....