e-commerce

I have extended Magento’s customer information form to store an additional attribute for customer. Lets call it ‘customer_referrer_id’. I have a role ‘referrer ‘ who has access to customer grid and order grid only. But, I want to restrict a referrer to see only those customers in the grid who have the customer_referrer_id set as the referrer’s id who has logged in. Similarly for orders, the logged in referrer shall be able to see only those orders made by customers who have customer_referrer_id = loggedin_referrer_id. I already know how to override a module and that I have to mainly override

I need to know how can I display products in a page like (cart, below total) only few products by ID. Eg: products with id 2,3,4 and 5. <div class="freeProducts voucher code"> <?php $categoryid = 64; $category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category(); $category->load($categoryid); $collection = $category->getProductCollection(); $collection->addAttributeToSelect('*'); foreach ($collection as $_product) { ?> <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(200); ?>" width="200" height="200" alt="" /></a> <a

I have a cart application with unique items with qty 1 - I need to deplete the stock qty when a user puts one in the basket to avoid someone else buying it. Problem is, that if they abandon the cart without buying I need to put the item back in stock. Is there a way I can replenish the stock when the cart session expires? ie run a script to replace the stock. mishu You can use session_set_save_handler to create a custom session-handling class. When you do this, you can decide other actions that need to run either when the garbage collector is called or at session destroy. If you decide to work

I'm new to online payments and would like some opinions on my task. Here is the scenario: I have a website where people buy and sell digital photos. A seller has a photo and wants to sell it. They create an ad on the site and upload the photo into the website database. Buyers looking for photos come to the site and buy them. The buyer pays the asking amount and then can download the photo. As the middleman, I'd like to charge the seller a fee or percentage of the selling price. The buyer shouldn't pay any website fees, just the selling price. My question is - what is the best way to do this? I

I have been asked by our developers to give them an API key for Baidu maps so they can set up our on site store locator and I'm not really sure how to go about doing this. I tried to set up an account on Baidu but it asked for a chinese mobile number. Do I have to get one of these before I can get the key? And how easy is it to work out how to obtain the key once i've got an account? Can anyone advise on the best way to set this up? Thanks in advance! Update 2016: It now appears to be possible to use non-Chinese phone numbers to create Baidu accounts, see this page . Once you're logged into

I want to enable template path hints in admin panel. I know how to do it for the front end, but for back end?? I actually want to edit the admin panel . Thanks in advance.. You can do it by changing the database directly. If you have something like phpMyAdmin that is a good way to gain access. Enter this SQL. INSERT INTO `core_config_data` (`scope`, `scope_id`, `path`, `value`) VALUES ('websites', '0', 'dev/debug/template_hints', '1'); When you are done with path hints just delete the matching record from core_config_data Or update the value field to 0 instead of deleting the whole record, it

I'm looking for a way to automate a transfer from one bank account to another, without the end user having to login to something like paypal or amazon payments to complete the process (by transferring their on-line balance to their bank account). I've looked around online a bit, and found some vendors that seem to be able to do that, but API documentation doesn't make me feel sure about it. Can anyone recommend a service they've used to do something like this? Obviously I'm looking for a web based API. The complete process is a middleman site that collects payments (that's the easy part), then

I hope the title is somewhat helpful. I'm using MySQL as my database I am building a database of products and am not sure how to handle storing prices/SKU of variations of a product. A product may have unlimited variations, and each variation combination has its own price/SKU/etc.. This is how I have my products/variations table set up at the moment: PRODUCTS +--------------------------+ | id | name | description | +----+------+--------------+ | 1 | rug | a cool rug | | 2 | cup | a coffee cup | +----+------+--------------+ PRODUCT_VARIANTS +----+------------+----------+-----------+ | id |