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Magento: Some product view page become blank

Posted on September 3, 2014 by excellone

When take the view of the product view in Magento, some product pages shows blank page but other product pages are working fine. This blog try to explore some solution for this Solutions: When one get issues like such as … Continue reading →

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Drupal: Customizing Apachesolr Autocomplete feature for content-type wise grouping of keyword suggestions.

Posted on August 18, 2014 by excellone

Issue: In Drupal, can we group ApacheSolr search autocomplete suggestions bundle wise? For example, if we have three bundle types, those are article, product and company. When we type a keyword in the search box, it should give us the … Continue reading →

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Responsive layouts Web design and JQuery

Posted on August 16, 2014 by excellone

One of the popular contemporary topic among web design and development is responsive layouts web design. Responsive layouts allows the web designers to design attractive websites which are device friendly and thereby increasing the number of users or audience of … Continue reading →

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Magento Free Shipping Promotion Rule is not working with some 3rdparty shipping modules

Posted on August 16, 2014 by excellone

Magento’s Free Shipping Promotion Rule is not working with some 3RDparty shipping modules. Solution: This issue can be resolved by adding some codes to the extension. For example, in Fontis Australia, the below condition was missing. if ($request->getFreeShipping() === true … Continue reading →

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Error message from 3rd party Ebizmart’s MagemonkeyMailchimpmodule in magento 1.7.0.2

Posted on August 16, 2014 by excellone

Installation ofthe 3rdparty magemonkeymailchimp module in magento 1.7.0.2, results in an error message in backend tab “Newsletter->Mailchimp->Ecommerce 360 Orders ->Ecommerce360 API Orders”. The error message can be; Fatal Error: Unsupported operand types in Block/Adminhtml/Ecommerceapi/Grid.php on line 34 OR Sometimes a … Continue reading →

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Solve the Delay in Mouse Over Effect for button

Posted on August 16, 2014 by excellone

When using mouse over we use two images for the mose over effect for writing css. We observed a delay Images used are given below Normal state:- Over state:- See below for normal sprite methos shop-now-btn { background: url(“../images/btn-shopnow.png”) no-repeat … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 29, 2014 by excellone

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

Posted on July 29, 2014 by excellone

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

Posted on July 29, 2014 by excellone

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

Posted on July 28, 2014 by excellone

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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