Magento – How it Stands Out as a Leading eCommerce Platform

The problem faced by the vast majority if newbies to eCommerce right now is the way in which each and every online business sector hasn’t just grown, it’s exploded right off the scale. No matter what kind of winning idea you come up with, what you plan to sell or how you plan to sell … Read more

Disable Wishlist Functionality in Magento

Many Magento site admins find that some of the built-in features are not useful. The good news is that you can always remove them via the admin interface by disabling their respective modules. If your theme has been built to a high standard than ‘Wishlist’ is one of them. To remove all of the traces … Read more

How to Get the Copyright Text in PHP and the CMS for Magento

As this is a very useful thing to do when customising a Magento template / theme and I could find nothing on-line to quickly demonstrate how to do this here you go: [code]<?php $storeCopyright = Mage::getStoreConfig(‘design/footer/copyright’); echo $storeCopyright; ?>[/code] If you need to add this to a CMS page then you can use this to … Read more

Retrieve VAT from Store Information in Magento with PHP

As this is a very useful thing to do when customising a Magento template / theme and I could find nothing online to quickly demonstrate how to do this here you go: [code]<?php $storeVAT = Mage::getStoreConfig(‘general/store_information/merchant_vat_number’); echo $storeVAT; ?>[/code] If you need to add this to a CMS page then you can use this to … Read more

SagePay Test Cards

In order to configure SagePay properly in Magento you will need to run some test transactions on your SagePay test account. Your admin can be found here: https://test.sagepay.com/mysagepay/loginpage.msp Expiry Date: any date in the future CV2: 123 Billing Address: 88 Billing Postcode: 412 3D Secure Password: password Card Type SagePay Card Name Card Number Issue Number … Read more