Better way to modify conditions in Magento template files
As it is with almost all Magento projects, you will have times when you need to modify sections of code in custom template files. There are many approaches and ways to handle these changes, but there...
View ArticleCreate the checkout_cart_product_add_before observer in Magento
For some reason no one can explain, it appears that the event observer checkout_cart_product_add_before never existed in Magento (even though checkout_cart_product_add_after does). Say what?!??Anyways,...
View ArticleDeploying Magento on Heroku with Amazon RDS
Heroku is a very powerful application deployment system that was initially created for Ruby on Rails apps. But, did you know that Heroku quietly released support for PHP 5? Well, they did, and I will...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn't use the core diff feature of MageUpdate
I feel as though I have to post about this sooner rather than later. A day or two ago, Kalen of MageUpdate posted an article, Mage Core: Keeping It Clean. The idea of the script is to check your...
View ArticleMy suggestion on setting up Magento's app/etc/local.xml file for...
It seems as though everyone always wonders what to do with app/etc/local.xml, and how to best manage it when deploying from development to staging and production. It took me a while to figure this out,...
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Magento 2 Development with Docker on OS X
Note that this blog post was originally written by myself on Mage Inferno's blog, which no longer exists. Many old user comments have been lost, but this post won't be!Why Docker?Docker has been making...
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Setting Up Your Magento 2 Module the Right Way with Composer & Packagist
IntroductionNote that this blog post was originally written by myself on Mage Inferno's blog, which no longer exists. Many old user comments have been lost, but this post won't be!Creating a module for...
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How to Create a Template Block in Magento 2
Note that this blog post was originally written by myself on Mage Inferno's blog, which no longer exists. Many old user comments have been lost, but this post won't be!Hopefully you've already read...
View ArticleCreate a customer address attribute in Magento with a custom installer script
Recently, I needed to create a custom customer address attribute, and needed a real simple way to do it. There are a lot of bloated examples online, but this is actually really easy.First, create your...
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Deploy Magento 2 to Digital Ocean using Tutum
Note that this blog post was originally written by myself on Mage Inferno's blog, which no longer exists. Many old user comments have been lost, but this post won't be!Tutum is a great deployment...
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