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Magento: Removing links in the navigation block by name or by label
Sometimes in Magento you may want to remove links from the customer navigation block. What you'll notice is it's actually quite hard to do so because there is no 'remove' method.
In this tutorial I will show you had to extend Mage_Customer_Block_Account_Navigation to include an extra two methods, one to remove links by name and the other by label.
How to set up Ctags for Sublime Text Editor 2
"Use the Source, Luke"
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Ctags is an excellent plugin for Sublime Text Editor 2 for giving you Jedi like powers. It enables you to jump through function calls to their definitions in the source code saving you a whole load of parsecs in file navigation.
Setting Ctags up is easy, here's how to in linux...
Extending the Magento API
As UK Magento Developers we often find the need to extend the Magento API. This is actually quite easy to do.
In this article I will show you how to take the sales order API and extend it to automatically capture any payment when an invoice is created through the API.
Howto: Merge Javascript and CSS files in Magento
During a lot of the Research and Developement I've done on Magento websites, one of the pitfalls I often notice about other peoples magento websites is that they haven't bothered to merge the Javascript and CSS files.
This is a very simple task - and I'll show you how to do it.
How to: Creating your own custom block in Magento
This is a quick 6 step tutorial on how to create a custom block in Magento.
Reusing code and repaying technical debt
Reducing delivery times by reusing code and repaying technical debt in the process.Black-box testing file uploads using Zend_Http_Client
Black-box testing file uploads using Zend_Http_Client with example.Frameworks and Data Validation: At what stage should the validation occur?
One of the questions you may find when attempting even the simplest of form validation is; at what stage should the data be validated? If you have a Controller, a Form (we’ll use Zend_Form in this case) and a Model you’ll find you can choose to validate at all stages, or just the one.
Zend Framework: Disabling the Layout and View Renderer
One of the most common things I do when working with the Zend Framework is disabling the view and/or layout inside a controller (or for a specific action). I always forget how to do this. Here's how I do it...
Using Selenium test tool in our site tests
I've recently incorporated the Selenium Java based test tool into our testing suite for some of our projects. “Selenium Remote Control allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.” Taken from http://seleniumhq.org