Using event-observer pattern is simple yet powerful method to implode your own code into critical moments of application lifetime. Magento defines vast range of different events – just have a look at list of events for Magento 1.3.0 created by Branko Ajzele to get idea of various aspects of application flow you can amend just by using event-observer More »
While Magento has been designed with best e-commerce practices in mind, it is sometimes desirable to change it’s default behavior to meet our specific requirements. In one of my recent projects shop was configured to accept two payments for the same shipping service – flat rate for smaller purchases and free shipping when customer spends higher amount of money. In this case it’s reasonable to present only one method depending on the total purchase and automatically preselect this option (saving customer More »
In this tutorial I show how in easy way create the module that will allow user to browse products by attribute options and categories. This will be done using custom controller and attributes passed by URL which will make our site more SEO friendly.