So I needed a slightly customised advanced search for a client.  Really I just needed 1 attribute and prices to be searchable from every page on the site. <?php $catalogSearchHelper = $this->helper(‘catalogsearch’); ?> <?php $maxQueryLength=… Hacking form.mini.phtml – list all options of an attribute

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Magento – get controller name, action name, router name and module name in template file or in any class file

In my previous post I showed you some code discovered in a website, which would show you how much you were saving in both currency and percentage on the price output. However my client wanted… Magento 1.7 – Hiding Part of Price.phtml

An interesting snippet of code landed on my desk today: <?php if($_finalPrice < $_price): ?> <?php <?php $_savePercent = 100 – round(($_finalPrice / $_price) * 100); $_saveAmount = number_format(($_price – $_finalPrice), 2); ?> <p class=”yousave”>… Magento 1.7 – Show Amount Saved as Currency and Percentage per product

This was bugging me at work today, found the answer at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13504056/magento-tier-prices-class-declaration-for-tier-price-in-buy-x-for-y-javascri/16022796#16022796 Essentially, when you have a product set up for tiered pricing everything works great until you add custom options to the… Magento 1.7 Product with Options and Tiered pricing showing wrong percentage discount (100%)

Firstly a little background. Our client has two sets of products which have custom finishes. 7mm Products and 10mm Products. These are grouped in attribute sets called 7mm Finishes (attributesetid == 16) and 10mm Finishes… Add New Tab to Products Panel – Magento 1.4.1.1

If you find yourself repeatedly receiving messages like: ERROR: Unable to unpack /public_html/downloader/pearlib/download/some_awesome_module.tgz After checking permissions (which should be right to have gotten this far) you could try the fix below. Tar <- download this tar.php… Magento Connect Downloader (1.4+) Unable to unpack