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This tutorial will show you the proper method for overriding a Mage core class. This will work for Block and Model classes. Controllers are a slightly different story and for another tutorial.
Some discussion on breadcrumbs: I will be overriding the Core file: app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Breadcrumbs.php (which I will call [Breadcrumbs-B]). This file is not to be confused with the block: app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Breadcrumbs.php (which I will call [Breadcrumbs-A]).
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Some people have run into a bug (apparently since version 1.1.3) where (not matter the settings in the backend) the users were getting redirected to the home page after they added a product to the cart.
Naturally this won’t be what most people want. (There is the option in the backend to set “After adding a product redirect to shopping cart” to ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ but this bug is ignoring this).
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Part of customizing Magento is, of course, creating custom Modules. These allow you to inject functionality anywhere, whether in a “static” block fashion that’s more than static, or a shipping/payment module, or large module to do something as large as integrating a 3rd party system (or multiple systems).
There are many things custom Modules can do, from editing your Database, to handling module upgrades to overriding classes (Blocks, Controllers, Models) … and more!
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This is a popular bug that has been plaguing many people with their custom Magento solutions.
Problem: Magento shows products that are in stock as “Out of Stock” – It seems to be popularly reported within the New Product block.
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This is not a comprehensive example (I didn’t write out an example of editing the navigation myself … yet) – but I will point out where the files are that you need to edit the top and left navigation.
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Just an interesting note:
The charts that you see on the dashboard in the Magento Admin area are powered by Google’s Chart API.
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I recently answered a question on the magento forums about how to remove the callout images in the right / left columns.
This is a pretty easy task, but finding them required a small bit of digging (as usual).
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The items in the footer area are in two different locations. One part is a static block created within the magento admin area (CMS > Static Block). The other part is held in the related .phtml / .php / .xml files within the design files.
First off, the XML files…
