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GD Graphics Library

January 14, 2012 Pramod T P Leave a comment

The GD Graphics Library is a graphics software library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images. Its native programming language is ANSI C, but it has interfaces for many other programming languages. It can create GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, and WBMPs. Support for drawing GIFs was dropped in 1999 when Unisys revoked the royalty-free license granted to non-commercial software projects for the LZW compression method used by GIFs. When the Unisys patent expired worldwide on July 7, 2004, GIF support was subsequently re-enabled.

GD is extensively used with PHP, where a modified version supporting additional features is included by default as of PHP 4.3 and was an option before that. As of PHP 5.3, a system version of GD may be used as well, to get the additional features that were previously available only to the bundled version of gd.

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Required PHP Extensions for Magento eCommerce

December 14, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

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watermark image on products – magento

December 7, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

1) Go to system -> configuration and click on the option “Design” (sidebar menu) under the main category “general” .

2) Then click on the tab “Product Image Watermarks” and fill the fields shown right under that and save the data .

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get current store details magento

October 22, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

Get store data : Mage::app()->getStore();

Status  : Mage::app()->getStore()->getIsActive();

Store Home Url : Mage::app()->getStore()->getHomeUrl();

Store Id : Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId();

Store code : Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode();

Website Id : Mage::app()->getStore()->getWebsiteId();

Store Name : Mage::app()->getStore()->getName();

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How to Get the Base Url for a specific Magento Store

October 21, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

<?php

$store_id = $this->helper(‘core’)->getStoreId();

$logoURL=Mage::app()->getStore($store_id)->getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK);

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Get base url inside cms – Magento

October 21, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

We can use {{store url=”}}

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Magento version upgrade to 1.6.x

October 21, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

NOTE : Follow below given steps at your own risk .

1) Make sure that you have taken the backup of the latest site and database . This is must .

2) Download the latest magento package
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.0.0/magento-1.6.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz magento-1.6.0.0.tar.gz

3) Go to the terminal and change the directory to the location where the current magento site is running
4) Remove all the cache files $ rm -rf var/cache/*
5) Remov the folder downloader $ rm -rf downloader
6) Copy the folder “downloader” from the latest package to the current site $ cp -a magento/downloader
7) Move the file “ mage” from the latest package to teh current site $ cp magento/mage
8) Chnage the permision $ chmod 550 ./mage
9) Run the following commands

$ ./mage mage-setup .
$ ./mage sync –force
$ ./mage install http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community Mage_All_Latest –force
$ rm -rf var/cache/* var/session/*
$ rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*
$ chmod 755 mage
$ php shell/indexer.php reindexall
$ ./mage upgrade-all –force

10) Copy all the file from latest package to the current site except the theme folder that the current site use
$ cp -Rf magento/* .

11) point the browser to the site url

This may take more time . so be patient. You might get a browser error when the upgrade is being done . never mind 🙂 It normal .

12) Thats all !!!

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creation of multiple stores within the same website – magento

October 17, 2011 Pramod T P Leave a comment

1) From admin panel of your magento site , go to the option “Main Menu” under the top menu “System”
2) Create a new store in the Magento store manager
3) Select a root category for the new store
4) Crate a store view for the new store
5) Update welcome message and logo

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