Caching Data in Magento & FirePHP through Zend

12
Mar
Zend build on Magento

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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Spice your site up with jQuery

05
Mar
jQuerylogo

In every website the main objective is to capture the users attention, while content is most definitely the most important thing, a little user integration with some fancy functionality can go a long way. It will impress the visitor making it a more memorable experience, and in the long run if a visitor is engaged with the website they will continually return to see what’s new.

jQuery is an excellent javascript tool that allows us to add animations and effects among other fancy functionality. A lot of websites have a featured area with content that slides in some form, which is a great technique for showing several pieces of content in a limited amount of space. The last thing we want is to clutter up the page and overwhelm the visitor, with some simple manipulation and jQuery we can work around this and engage the visitor. Continue Reading

Magento AJAX Cart Preview Extension Version 2

02
Feb
cart-preview-blog

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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