Magento is the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the world. Currently there are 19 solution partners listed in the United Kingdom alone. Magento have also recently released training material online at http://training.magento.com which is available for free, I would highly recommend it. It’s great for people starting out with Magento or for people who have been working with it for a while.

In this short article I am going to look at caching data through Zend to increase the speed of Magento, this article is focused at the more advanced developer.

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Fisheye’s new AJAX Cart Preview extension for Magento builds on the success of our first AJAX Cart extension. We’ve added some extra functionality and made some major improvements, in this post I’ll cover the new functionality, there is also a YouTube video below with a quick demo of the extension in action, I hope you’ll like what we’ve done.

Clicking add to cart anywhere on the site adds the items and options including quantities without redirecting you to the cart page. The cart preview displays with a slide down, up or fade in, all controlled in the admin area, with the items you just added. The extension uses magentos standard stock control system, so if an item is out of stock, the user will be displayed a message.

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