Monthly Archives: July 2014

Receives a wrong output when saving the date of birth as 01.01.1970 during the customer registration.

Receives a wrong output n magento when saving the date of birth as 01.01.1970 during the customer registration OR updating the customer information. Solutions: Copy the Dob.php file in app\code\core\Mage\Customer\Block\Widget to corresponding local path. Edit the function setDate($date) And add … Continue reading

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Adding new export filter for products in Dataflow – profiles in Magento version 1.9

At first, we need to find where the export filters are located. Going through Magento core we can understand that export filters are stored in the form of array inside load () in: …\app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Model\Convert\Adapter.php Look for $attrFilterArray in load(), in … Continue reading

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Optimizing the ‘LIKE’ Search type in Magento version 1.9

Before going to optimize, please make sure that ‘Search Type’ is ‘Like’. It can be determined taking a look at: System ->Configuration ->Catalog ->Search Type Important: If we want to see any changes in frontend search results please make sure … Continue reading

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Select Box Issue in Updated Firefox

Before: After: First we need to surround our select box element with a div container: <div> <select> <option>Here is the first option</option> <option>The second option</option> </select> </div> Next we need to add CSS to make sure that the elements of … Continue reading

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Error message from third party worldpay payment method module

Enabling the third party worldpay payment method in the magento, results in an error message from worldpay on submitting the transaction as below The information sent from the merchant’s site is invalid or incomplete. Please send the following information to … Continue reading

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