If you’re having trouble with a call like echo $this->getChildHtml('foo'); returning an empty string, add the following debug code to your template var_dump(array_keys($this->_children)); This will print out all the children of the current block. If you don’t see the block you’re trying to echo above, that means [...]
astormThere's no new Magento API article this week, primarily because everyone's going to be too tired for code after the Magento Imagine parties. If you're not in Vegas this week you'll need to settle for living vicariously through twitter hash tags.
astormNothing dredges up fear and loathing in an e-commerce developer like the phrase so we’ll just add [—] to the order success page That’s because testing any changes to this page requires a full purchase flow. Most web developers work in a “type, save, refresh, examine, oops, type, save, refresh” mode, and the idea [...]
astormLast time we looked at the full request and response flow for a Magento XML-RPC API call. Today we'll look at the same flow for a Magento SOAP API call, and see how the architecture holds up. We still haven't reached the point where
astormFully Automated Magento Install Script I haven’t had time to check it out, but the Sonassi folks have shared their build script for rolling out a new version of Magento. I think we all have something like this sitting on our harddrives, but I know mine is sort of janky so I’ll be checking out the Sonassi version right away.
astormNow that we have a general picture of the Magento API architecture, we're going to take a look at that architecture's ideal implementation in the XML-RPC adapter.
astormMore strange behavior in Magento due to EE’s new Mage_Persistent module
astormI've been wanting to write about the Magento API for a long time, but it's one of those slippery topics that has no clean entry point. It's easy to talk about small slices of the API, or provide tricks for using the API methods
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