Send New Product Review Notification Email in Magento

This is probably a feature which store owner might be looking for. As of now store owner has to check for new product reviews from Magento backend in a frequent manner. Won’t it be better if admin gets an instant email whenever a new product review is posted? So that whatever action needs to be …

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Sending shipment email when tracking info is added

From the topic of this blog post, it’s clear that we are going to discuss on ‘How to send shipment email when tracking info is added to the system?’ This may be useful if carrier tracking info is pushed to Magento by some third party system and want to send shipment email. As usual, instead …

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Product List: Show out of stock products in the last

In this blog post, we will be sharing how to show out of stock products at last of product listing page. Assumption: MagePsycho_Productsort is the skeleton module Steps: 1. Register event: catalog_product_collection_load_before File: app/code/local/MagePsycho/Productsort/etc/config.xml … <frontend> <events> <catalog_product_collection_load_before> <observers> <magepsycho_productsort_catalog_product_collection_load_before> <type>singleton</type> <class>magepsycho_productsort/observer</class> <method>catalogProductCollectionLoadBefore</method> </magepsycho_productsort_catalog_product_collection_load_before> </observers> </catalog_product_collection_load_before> </events> </frontend> … 2. Implement the observer model: File: …

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Extend Magento sales order grid using event observer

You can add new columns to the Sales Order grid easily by extending the block class: Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Grid But this is not the preferred way due to conflict issues. Here I will show you how to extend order grid by using events(core_block_abstract_to_html_before & sales_order_grid_collection_load_before) only. For example purpose, we will be adding Payment Method to sales …

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Change shipping price & handling fee on the fly in Magento

Problem: How do I change shipping prices and handling fees on the fly? You may want to have different shipping prices for different scenarios. Your scenario could be any of the following: Different shipping price based on the shipping address Different shipping price based on weight Different shipping price based on categories Different shipping price …

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