Magento
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Editing Magento Translate.csv File
| Posted in Magento, Tips&Tricks by Sergei Guk
If you read my article about Internationalization in Magento, you should know that there is a way to edit translation CSVs using one file – translate.csv. In order to do that, you just need to set locale via Magento admin area, then create translate.csv in app/design/frontend/<package>/<theme>/locale/languagecode_COUNTRYCODE and put your translated strings inside this translate.csv file.
Here are some tips and tricks:
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Best Way to Remove/Disable States/Province Field for Specific Countries in Magento
| Posted in Magento, Tips&Tricks by Sergei Guk
The State/Province field was something that many developers struggled for years in Magento – there are countries that don’t need this feature but it’s set up in Magento that not only this field was required one, but also there was a drop-down with states/provinces/counties that was not correct/needed/actual. Although the information is very important for some countries and used for both tax and shipping calculation, but there are a lot of countries that don’t need this info at all.
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Mаgentо Books Day
| Posted in Magento, Tips&Tricks by Pavel Novitsky
Perhaps no one will argue that today Mаgentо is one of the most popular and perhaps the most functionally rich CMS in the field of E-commerce. However, it is also true that the information on how to administer and configure Mаgentо is often taken as some sort of a secret knowledge scattered by small pieces all over the Internet: you can find something on Magento Commerce, much has been already described at Magento Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow but still the main source for shop owners and beginning administrators are some scrappy blogs of some experienced developers.
Recently Pасkt Publishing has issued 2 books that can be regarded as a complete how-to guide for beginners.
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Testing Automation In Magento: The Practicalities Of Using Locators
| Posted in Magento by Vikentsi Kaziuk
When automating tests for Magento you may encounter certain difficulties with using Secret Key in URL and with MD5 code in the IDs of most buttons.
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Big Day Release: Magento Product View Gallery
| Posted in Magento by Andrei Danilchyk
Magento Product View Gallery is the all-in-one extension, providing flexible configuration of your product galleries. After installing the module you’ll have the possibility of setting neat scroll bars to look through the images as well as adding video clips, that can be
played instantly right on the product page. Besides, two legendary extensions – Cloud Zoom and Fancybox – were embedded for you to use them and adjust all the settings at one place.
Key features:
- Enhanced configuration of product galleries
- Cloud Zoom image zoom plugin embedded
- FancyBox images displaying plugin embedded
- Scrolling through thumbnails
- Possibility of arranging pictures on the page
- Possibility of adding video and playing it on the page




