magento-1.4

I am trying to add a custom input field to the account information tab of a customer in admin. i have successfully been able to create a custom attribute in the eav table for my input, but have been unsuccessful in finding how to make my input show up. curious of anyone has any good resources on how to do this? The above link doesn't work anymore. I found a better explanation at http://www.excellencemagentoblog.com/customer-registration-fields-magento1-6 . If you just do the first steps you will only have the added fields in the admin. The fastest way is to create a php file and access it

I bought a magento extension and copied the files into the magento directory. Everything worked great. Then I wanted to re-install it. So I deleted all relevant files in app/code/local and i deleted the relevant database tables. When I re-copied the extension files back into the magento directory and tried to test the extension out, i get this error: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'mydb.swam_list' doesn't exist I looked in the database and it seems magento did not re-create the database tables for the extension. How do I re-install this extension? Look in the table

I have tried the following two methods in catalog/navigation/vert_nav.phtml to add or suppress content specific to the home page: if($this->getUrl('') == $this->getUrl('*/*/*', array('_current'=>true, '_use_rewrite'=>true))): or if( Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier() == 'home' && Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName() == 'cms' ) : Both work fine, however when BLOCK_HTML cache is turned on, it works at first, then after a while the home page starts displaying content that is intended only for other pages (after an else clause I use lower down). When I turn

I've managed to get to the point where I understand how to move blocks from column to column in my Magento layouts: via specifying a "left" or "right" attribute in the <reference> tag. However, I don't understand how to change the order in which blocks appear. I've noticed that the "before" and "after" attributes of the <block> tag have something to do it with, but I'm not sure how they work. If I want to move a block from the top of its area to anywhere else in our page, what's the proper use and syntax for those attributes? For example, I have a Category page and I have these blocks in it:

I'm wondering which is the better way to add some information to a payment in magento (1.4.1.1). Let's say I want to add an information called "payment_duedate" which would be the date the customer has to pay his invoice. Actually, there is a field in the sales_flat_order_payment called "additional_information" which contain serialized data set by the method setAdditionalInformation($arg1,$arg2); available in the 'sales/payment' model. So I could save my date by : $payment->setAdditionalInformation('payment_duedate',$myDate); $payment->save(); But one could also choose to add a payment

I want to filter my data to csv using the "Manufacturer" field. I tried this, but it didn't work: <action type="catalog/convert_adapter_product" method="load"> <var name="store"><![CDATA[0]]></var> <var name="filter/manufacturer"><![CDATA[898]]></var> </action> <action type="catalog/convert_parser_product" method="unparse"> <var name="store"><![CDATA[0]]></var> <var name="url_field"><![CDATA[0]]></var> </action> <action type="dataflow/convert_mapper_column" method="map"> <var name="map"> <map name="sku"><![CDATA[sku]]></map> <map name="name"><![CDATA[name]]></map> </var> <var name="_only

I am playing with magento's home page where I have created a tab Which Shows all the categories including Root, categories, and Sub Categories (In One Tab). Now I want to Show Only Main Categories( Whose Parent Is Root) in main Tab And under Each Category I want to List Their respective Sub Categories. I wrote The following Code to achieve a part of this, MODEL CLASS public function getsubCategory($parent) { $subcategoryCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category') ->getCollection() ->addAttributeToFilter('parent_id', $parent); return $subcategoryCollection; BLOCK CLASS protected function