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In order to address the most common complaints about the generally understood MVC framework pattern, Magento’s MVC pattern has been customized to be more abstract and thus more flexible. The pattern of Magneto’s MVC framework goes something like this: A URL is intercepted by a single PHP file This PHP file instantiates a Magento application […]
The MVC framework is really common but was difficult for me to understand at first. I found an excellent explanation of how it works from Alan Storm: A URL is intercepted by a single PHP file (usually called a Front Controller) This PHP file will examine the URL, and derive a controller name and an […]
What happens to all of the xml configuration files that are required for all modules, classes, and just about anything you want to do with Magento? Well, they all get added to the Magento Config. The Magento Config is basically just one large xml file that acts as the brain of your Magento installation. Whenever […]
Since Java is proprietary software, Ubuntu is unable to include it in their repositories. The version of Java (IcedTea) that is in the Ubuntu repositories is a repackaged older version of Java. Because of this, you will never have the most up to date version of Java if you stick with the one provided by […]
Disclaimer: This is not best practices, use the Magento cron system whenever possible. This method should only be used when working on legacy systems that use the server crontab. Any event observers set in the frontend or adminhtml typically won’t fire when a server crontab processes a scheduled job. Any easy solution for this is […]
Magento allows you to create unique messages that won’t be duplicated if it gets called multiple times. You do this by using the addUniqueMessages() function in any session. Example of a unique error message: // this creates the error message using the ‘core/message’ model $message = Mage::getModel(‘core/message_error’, Mage::helper(‘checkout’)->__(‘Oops, you did something wrong!’)); // setting the […]