Magento has a built in feature called template path hints to identify the path of frontend template files and its block classes. But Sometimes you need to locate the path of adminhtml template files. Recently while searching the magento forum i got this solution. So to enable template hints for the adminhtml. Follow the below … Continue Reading
Monthly Archives
April 2011
Javascript Event Delegation Model
JavaScript is the main part of web development. Even you can optimize the performance of java script in the web for higher efficiency. Javascript Event Delegation Model model can be implemented for avoiding events to occur recursively through out the HTML Element. The best example for event delegation is if you are creating HTML element dynamically … Continue Reading
Creating Custom log file in magento
Magento has a built in support to write log messages. Sometimes we may Need to include our own log file for debugging our own modules. Because the size of default system.log file is too large and also it is difficult to find a specific entry in such a large file. we can Create our own … Continue Reading
Magento debugging tips
1. One of the most difficult task in magento is to locate a particular file in recursive folders. Magento provides a setting in the admin panel to find the template files. To locate any template file location. Enable the template path hints. After enabling the template path hints you can visit the frontend and view … Continue Reading
jQuery :: New diagonalFade plugin helps animate your box
diagonalFade is jQuery plugin which is used to fade-in and out through the direction of the webpage. It can be used in inventory which is ordered in grid. It is very easy to implement in your web application. You can specify the following settings in diagonalFade time:100 fadeDirection_x: ‘left-right’, fadeDirection_y: ‘top-bottom’, fade: ‘out’, complete: null You can … Continue Reading
jQuery :: Excellent animation plug-in jRumble
jRumble as the name describes it rumbles the elements with jRumble plug-in. This plugin can be easily integrated to any web applications. When thinking about cross browser compatibility it seems little buggy in IE. It has some animation effects like, rumbles,vibrates,shakes, androtates any element you choose. Easy to use documentation is available. It has some of the features like, X, Y, and rotation … Continue Reading
jQuery :: Games Development using GameQuery
gameQuery is a plugin from jQuery which makes the game development program easier with the defined classes. gameQuery will provide you many features like multi layer-sprite animations, sprite hierarchies, collision detection, swappable sound support, periodic callbacks and keyboard state polling. Nowadays all modern browsers support JavaScript engines. gameQuery uses no flash script so that it will be supported … Continue Reading
Log Clean Script for Magento
Magento Keeps track of all logging information in its database. It logs everything that happens in the site i.e visitors information,customers logged in details,URLs visited etc. It has a log cleaning with Cron job setup by default to clear the old entries, but i found in magento forums that the default log cleaning is not … Continue Reading