Magento Determine if Current Page is Category or Not

Sometimes you find your self in the need to determine if the current page a visitor is viewing is of a category or not. The reason for this could drastically very, but one good reason is the need for a global element not be shown on any category page.

Magento Product’s Relative Parent Category Method

Today I want to quickly cover an area that I get asked about at least once a month, and that is “If a product belongs to more than one category.. how do I get the correct parent category while viewing a product through one category or the other?”.

How to Obtain Custom Attribute Values in Magento

Today let’s talk about Magento and custom attributes. With magento you can create as many custom attributes for your products as you like, but how does one then gather the values of a custom attribute? Here I will show you how to properly gather the value of any Magento custom attribute.

Magento Custom Category Listing Block

Here I wanted to show you how to build a custom magento category listing block that you can use on your own magento store. We will go over each step at getting a category listing of your magneto categories and even a sub category listing.

CMS Instant Edit (3 of 3)

This is our third installment of the CMS instant edit script. Here we will be talking about our last two languages “PHP & MySQL”. PHP is a server side language that preform’s more complex and secure server side functions such as creating and editing files on the server or storing and retrieving sensitive data from [...]

CMS Instant Edit (2 of 3)

This is the second edition to our instant edit tutorial. Today I will be expanding our instant edit to work with Ajax to save and retrieve information from our server side language PHP and a MySQL database.
We left off with a our functions fully created to perform our instant edit via client site DOM scripting. [...]

CMS Instant Edit (1 of 3)

Let’s get into some real in depth work today. What better way to demonstrate a little of every language one might use to create internet applications than with the simple instant edit. Instant edit is more times than not is used in content management systems (CMS) to give quick edits to a site owner without [...]

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