Many of you must have noticed that Magento has brought much changes in it’s EAV based database structure in version Magento 1.4.x. Like they did for changes in order data storage, perhaps this decision is to reduce the over complex structrue.

When we are developing some Magento based project, we oftenly try to add test data to check whether everything is fine or not. Though we can delete this test data using delte option but if you added some test order then you are stucked as Magento don’t give any option to delete a record from Magento prompt. So solution in such cases is to go at database prompt and run queries to reset Magento. Following are few queries for the same purpose:

– Reset Magento TEST Data
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;

– Reset dashboard search queries
TRUNCATE `catalogsearch_query`;
ALTER TABLE `catalogsearch_query` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

– Reset sales order info
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_creditmemo`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_creditmemo_comment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_creditmemo_grid`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_creditmemo_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_invoice`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_invoice_comment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_invoice_grid`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_invoice_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order_address`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order_grid`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order_payment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_order_status_history`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_address`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_address_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_item_option`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_payment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_quote_shipping_rate`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_shipment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_shipment_comment`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_shipment_grid`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_shipment_item`;
TRUNCATE `sales_flat_shipment_track`;
TRUNCATE `sales_invoiced_aggregated`;
TRUNCATE `sales_invoiced_aggregated_order`;
TRUNCATE `sales_order_aggregated_created`;
TRUNCATE `sendfriend_log`;
TRUNCATE `tag`;
TRUNCATE `tag_relation`;
TRUNCATE `tag_summary`;
TRUNCATE `wishlist`;
TRUNCATE `log_quote`;
TRUNCATE `report_event`;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_creditmemo` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_creditmemo_comment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_creditmemo_grid` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_creditmemo_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_invoice` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_invoice_comment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_invoice_grid` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_invoice_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order_address` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order_grid` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order_payment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_order_status_history` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_address` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_address_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_item_option` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_payment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_quote_shipping_rate` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_shipment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_shipment_comment` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_shipment_grid` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_shipment_item` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_flat_shipment_track` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_invoiced_aggregated` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_invoiced_aggregated_order` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sales_order_aggregated_created` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `sendfriend_log` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `tag` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `tag_relation` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `tag_summary` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `wishlist` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `log_quote` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
ALTER TABLE `report_event` AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

Hope this information was helping!

If anyone of you facing problems to fetch the Magento URL paths of  skin, media, Js or simple base URL of Magento while customization/programming, then following lines should be helpful for you:

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_JS);
//http://magento.demo/js/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK);
//http://magento.demo/index.php/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA);
//http://magento.demo/media/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_SKIN);
//http://magento.demo/skin/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB);
//http://magento.demo/

Enjoy!

Above line will try to find the product.js file under /skin/frontend/default/Your_Theme/js /product.js

Similarly you can remove a default javascript file by putting this line in your layout file:

<action method=”removeItem”>   <type>js</type>   <name>varien/product.js</name>   <params />   </action>

Hope this will be helping someone for fighting against Magento.

“J2T Points & Rewards” is a big and FREe extension for Magento based e-commerce stores where Discounts are rewarded to customers on the basis of amount that they spent to buy from the store. In short, this is a Points and Reward system for a magento based store.

I really faced hard time to see some step by step manual to configure this extension but got no luck. Eventually i was able to configure it successfully with the help of some community mates (thanks to them) so thought to share. Here it is:

Step1: Disable your Cache.
Step2: Make sure you have copied the template and layout files of this extension under the active template of store.

Step3: Go in Reward points > Configurations and make following settings (you may set it according to your business logic too):
money to obtain: 1
points to obtain 1: 100
apply points by step: no
leave step value blank
use max points: no
round up points: no
coupon code restriction: yes
apply store scope: yes

Step4: Go Promotions –> Shopping cart price rules and add a shopping cart price rule with following settings:
rule name: points
customer group: general
coupon code: points
under action tab have the “fixed amount discount for entire cart”

Step4: Go catalog –> attributes –> manage attribute
create ‘reward_points’
scope: global
apply to: all product types
Use for Price Rule Conditions: yes
Allow HTML-tags on Front-end: yes

That’s it! After these settings are done, you’ll be able to see these effects:

– Reward points section is being shown in Customer Account area.
– Logged in User is given an option to redeem the points on shopping cart page.
– discount is applied on shopping cart

Hope it will be helping for someone.

Hope this tip will be helping for someone

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Open source matters! so PHP is at top for helping you by providing such a huge community where you get great “plug and play” stuff for attaining quicknees in your work.
In same respect, Today i am gonna share with you a list of 20 Most Useful PHP libraries about which every PHP developer must now. So here they are:

Charting Library

GD library may help you to create a good but simple chart but for complex charts, here are some great libraries:

1. pChart – a PHP class to build charts.
2. Libchart – Simple PHP chart drawing library.
3. JpGraph – Object-oriented graph creating library for PHP.
4. Open Flash Chart – Flash based charting library.

RSS Parser Library

Parsing a RSS gets painful sometime, so why don’t you prefer to use any of following libraries and enjoy???

1. MagpieRSS – RSS for PHP.
2. SimplePie – Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.

Thumbnail Generator

Good way for generating Thumbnails.

1. phpThumb – The PHP thumbnail creator.

Payment

Playing with an e-commerce site? Need payment solution?. Let this library help you

1. PHP Payment Library – PHP Payment Library for Paypal, Authorize.net and 2Checkout (2CO)

OpenID

Just in case you need to implement OpenID to your project.

1. PHP-OpenID – OpenID implementation in PHP.

Database Abstraction/ORM

 These library let you smile more while writting SQL quries.

1. ADOdb – Database abstraction library for PHP.
2. Doctrine – Object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL).
3. Propel – Object-Relational Mapping framework for PHP5
4. Outlet – an Open source object-to-relational mapping tool for PHP.

PDF Generator

1. FPDF – PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP.

Excel

Enjoy if you need to generate your report in Excel file while using these libraries .

E-Mail

Don’t like PHP mail function? Give a chance to any of these libraries:

Sometimes, Life gets too busy and even you don’t find time for yourself but … We spend the time somehow ..

Hopefully you’ll see further informative and much logical stuff from my side (this wasn’t an announcement but a humble decision ).

See ya

General Format:

margin:Toppx Rightpx Bottompx Leftpx

Example:

<div style=” margin:14px 10px 7px 16px;”>
This inline css code will make this div to produce margin: 14px at top, 10px at right, 7px at bottom and 16px at left

Hope this will help someone