Tag Archives: custom module
Some custom Blocks to help you show products
Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Fido .
I have a few custom blocks I’ve written / copied and tweaked from various posts on Magento’s forums. I noticed they are pretty universal in how they grab, filter and return a product collection to be used in various template files (.phtml files). The blocks below should all work from List.phtml (app\design\frontend\default\default\template\catalog\product\list.phtml).
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How to override a Magento core block class
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 by Fido .
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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Create a simple custom module
Posted on 11. Sep, 2008 by Fido .
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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Using PHP code on a CMS page (custom Block/module)
Posted on 02. Sep, 2008 by Fido .
If you have ever wanted to do some sort of PHP processing within a CMS page that you created, here is how you do it.
A limitation of this tutorials is form processing. That involves creating and/or extending and/or overriding a controller class (which I’ll save for another day).
This code will allow your code to accept arguments, making it handy for some sort of dynamic use!
