Vinai Koop (author of Grokking Magento) pointed me towards the magento-hackathon/composer-command-integrator Magento package (in a GitHub thread). This packages adds a deploy-all command to the Firegento Magento composer project which (presumably) allows users to explicitly trigger an installation of their packages into their Magento [...]
astormIf you haven't heard, PHP Composer is a package management system for PHP. It's closest thing the PHP community has to something like Ruby Gems. The goal of package management systems is to make it super simple to add a new library and/or third
astormMagento Community Edition (CE) 1.9 Release Notes Pretty solid release notes for the Magento 1.9 release.
astormIn his soon to be referenced widely Magento Infinite Theme Fallback Fix, Eric Wiese notes that layout update XML files added via theme.xml are ignored by the parent/child theme inheritance. An XML file added to a parent’s theme.xml will not be added automatically to the child theme’s layout. Eric’s solution is a custom [...]
astormThe new Magento parent/child infinite theme fallback system is the first time in years Magento's added a new significant system to the framework code. As with any new system we need to reconcile our expectations vs. the actual behavior of the system. Put another
astormOne of the things Magento 1.9 brings to the table is unlimited theme fallback via a parent/child theme mechanism. If you ever need to find the current theme’s parent programmatically, here’s what you’ll want to do. $design = Mage::getDesign(); $config = Mage::getSingleton('core/design_config'); $area = [...]
astormMagento – Knowledge Base – Magento CE 1.9 and EE 1.14 Responsive Web Design Developer’s Guide – eCommerce Software for Growth A deep dive from eBay on the new Magento responsive theme.
astormMagento Infinite Theme Fallback Fix Covers Magento 1.9’s new parent/child theme concept, and offers an extension for more Magento 2 like merging of theme files (vs. complete file replacement)
astormI’m still digging into the new Magento 1.9 CE responsive web design (RWD) theme, but one thing I noticed immediately (since it conflicted with my new Custom Checkout Step extension) is how the theme needed to replace a method in the Prototype JS Checkout class. #File: skin/frontend/rwd/default/js/opcheckout_rwd.js [...]
astormOne of the nice surprises at Magento Imagine 2014 was the simultaneous release of Magento EE 1.14 and Magento CE 1.9. The most obvious feature of both is a new responsive web design theme, but behind the scenes there was some invisible
astormHere’s a fun little heisenbug I had to deal with. I was working in a Magento block observer — specifically the core_block_abstract_to_html_after event. If the block was a specific block, I wanted to change its output slightly. $transport = $observer->getTransport(); $block = $observer->getBlock(); [...]
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