Paul Donnelly - Website Designer and Developer from Northern Ireland

Add Order Status to Last 5 Orders on Magento Admin Dashboard

Paul Donnelly — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:44:03 +0000

It’s happened to us all folks, you log onto the admin dashboard you see an new order in the last 5 orders list and automatically think to yourself, “Nice, I have a new order!”. Well hold on a minute, this is not always the case, the order could have be abandoned or pending payment. This has happened to me a few too many times this week so I decided, I NEED to have the order status along with the Customer Name, Items & Grand Total.

If you follow the instructions below, I will show you how to add Status to the Last 5 Orders grid.

Standard Grid

Modified Grid

First of all, and this is a must when modifying any core files, create a local copy of the following file:

Copy app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Dashboard/Orders/Grid.php

To app/code/local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Dashboard/Orders/Grid.php

Open your local copy of Grid.php and around line 114 add the following:

$this->addColumn('status', array(
'header' => Mage::helper('sales')->__('Status'),
'index' => 'status',
'type'  => 'options',
'width' => '70px',
'sortable'  => false,
'options' => Mage::getSingleton('sales/order_config')->getStatuses(),
));

Save and upload the local copy and you should now have a column called Status in your Last 5 Orders.

Magento – Get Store Email Addresses

Paul Donnelly — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:44:12 +0000

General Contact

/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name'); 
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email');

Sales Representative

/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_sales/name'); 
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_sales/email');

Customer Support

/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/name'); 
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/email');

Custom Email 1

/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_custom1/name'); 
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_custom1/email');

Custom Email 2

 
/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_custom2/name'); 
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_custom2/email');

Magento Fix – Transactional Email Preview Showing HTML only

Paul Donnelly — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:55 +0000

In Magento version 1.6.1.0, I noticed when previewing a transactional email it displayed in html only. Obviously this isnt right so I come up with this little fix.

Copy: app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/System/Email/Template/preview.php

To: app/code/local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/System/Email/Template/preview.php

Change (Line:49):

$template->setTemplateText(
$this->escapeHtml($template->getTemplateText())
);

To:

//$template->setTemplateText(
//$this->escapeHtml($template->getTemplateText())
//);

Upload and it should display properly.

Stop Magento Redirecting to Empty Cart on Success.phtml

Paul Donnelly — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:34:01 +0000

Recently when trying to modify the success.phtml section in magento, I found it very frustrating the fact you had to make new fake orders to see your modified file. Of course I could have used firebug or some extension like that but I much prefer making modifications and hitting refresh.

After a little digging into the core files, I managed to find a solution.

Open: app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/controllers/OnepageController.php

There is no need to move this file to local (unless you have already modified this file, so use the local version instead) as it’s only a temporary modification, obviously you don’t want this on the live site so *remember to undo this change when finished*.

Change: (Line:227 in 1.6.1.0)

$session->clear();

To:

//$session->clear();

Simple as that, hope this helps.

Quick Magento Tip: Logo / Images in Transactional Emails Not Appearing

Paul Donnelly — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:48:45 +0000

Magento by default will choose the logo_email.gif from the default package and default theme. To force it to use the logo_email.gif or any other image from your custom package or theme add the following snippets to your skin url.

 
_package="MyPackageName" _theme="MyCustomThemeName"

Example:

 
{{skin url="images/logo_email.gif" _area='frontend' _package="MyPackageName" _theme="MyCustomThemeName"}}

Magento Issue Fix – “El is NULL”

Paul Donnelly — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:39:22 +0000

I have recently come across an issue when trying to add a Widget to a CMS page.

When clicking “Insert Widget” a javascript alert appeared shouting El is NULL.

The reason for this is a missing forward slash from Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php Line 202.

To fix this error copy Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php to app/code/local/Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php

app/code/local/Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php

Line 202 – Replace

'onclick'   =&gt; "widgetTools.openDialog('" . $this-&gt;getConfig('widget_window_url') . "widget_target_id "

(Notice the space at the end of widget_target_id, this is error by magento when refactoring the code, they left out the forward slash)

with

'onclick'   =&gt; "widgetTools.openDialog('" . $this-&gt;getConfig('widget_window_url') . "widget_target_id/"

Please note, change

&gt;

to >

Ensure you clear the cache and it should work

CSV to HTML using PHP

Paul Donnelly — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:52:24 +0000


 
$file_handle = fopen("path/to/file/Book2.csv", "r");
 
while (!feof($file_handle) ) {
 
$line_of_text = fgetcsv($file_handle, 1024);
 
print "" . $line_of_text[0] . "
";
print "" . $line_of_text[1] . "
";
print "" . $line_of_text[2] . "
";
 
}
 
fclose($file_handle);
 
?>

» Sample CSV File

Magento – Get Cart Quantity Within A Session

Paul Donnelly — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:11:40 +0000

 
  function getCartQuantity () {
	  $cart = Mage::getModel('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getData();
	  if (isset($cart['items_qty']))
	 	return (int)$cart['items_qty'];
	  else
	  	return 0;
  }
  echo getCartQuantity ().' Item(s)'; 
?>

Magento – Show Firstname or Lastname Only In Welcome Message

Paul Donnelly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:11:48 +0000

If you would like to change the default welcome message in magento from “Welcome, Paul Donnelly” to “Hi Paul” or “Hello Mr Donnelly”, use the following snippets within
app\design\frontend\default\default\template\page\html\header.phtml

Firstname

 echo $this->__('Hi %s', Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getFirstname()); ?>

Lastname

 echo $this->__('Hello Mr %s', Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getLastname()); ?>

Magento – Display Address Fields on Create an Account

Paul Donnelly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:05:57 +0000

By default Magento doesnt show the address fields within “Create an Account”. To make the sign up process more user friendly you can enable the address fields by adding the following:

Open app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/form/register.phtml

Around line 78
Before

 if($this->getShowAddressFields()): ?>

Add

 $this->setShowAddressFields(true); ?>