magento

Magento Product Create API: use_config_min_sale_qty (and max) attributes

In a site I maintain I have a separate web application for adding products. The reason for this is that products need to be added to both a backend warehousing system as well as magento.
I’m posting this because the documentation on the magento site isn’t clear about how one goes about setting these attributes:

min_sale_qty
use_config_min_sale_qty
use_config_max_sale_qty
use_config_manage_stock

Although these [...]

Installing git on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5)

Background
I am looking for a more flexible, faster Source Code Management system as development expands both in and out of house. Especially now with our increased use of Magento – some people are doing style sheets, some doing templates, some doing new scripts and still others code.
It’s increasingly difficult to manage with CVS alone. It’s [...]

Magento: How to Turn On Template Path Hints and Inline Translation

Magento: How to Turn On Template Path Hints and Inline Translation

Background
These settings – especially template path hints – are unclear in existing documentation.The Magento User Guide makes no mention of either. My guess is that it’s considered beyond the scope of that manual. I’ve not seen any mention in php|Architect’s “Guide to E-commerce Programming with Magento” so far, either.
Magento Inline Translation
This is turned on [...]

A fix: Magento Frontend and/or Admin and/ or Admin menu doesn’t work

Introduction
After a magento upgrade, the frontend died a tragic death – a 500 Internal Server Error. Once I got that running, I figured out why I was getting the same error in the admin backend, and then once all that was sorted – my admin menu links weren’t working!
Solution
Turns out my hosting server was kicking [...]