Module Development Series – Magento Admin Module – Part1

In this blog post, we will see how to set up admin pages for your module. Specifically in this blog post i will show the basic of how to set up Grid in magento.

Before reading this blog, I assume you are familiar with basics of magento module development and have used Models,Collections. Read this full

Module Development Series – Magento Admin Module – Part2

In this blog post, we will see advanced functions and operations related to admin grid.

This blog is continuation of the previous blog where we saw basics of Admin Grid. Read this full

Magento Module Development Series – Part1- Design & Template

In this blog, I will go through a basic introduction of magento template system. What are the various files used and their locations? This blog is intended for magento beginners, so that you can start doing very basic magento theme changes.

The first step in any magento customization is design changes (both CSS and HTML Changes). Magento comes with a default theme, but usually people require some changes in their theme depending on their websites. Minor text add/edits, layout changes and other changes are usually required. Read this full

Magento Module Development Series – Part2 – Layouts

In this blog, we will learn the basic of magento layout xml files.

Magento layouts are very important for theme development. Layout are xml files located in your theme/layout folder. Layout are very power magento tools, initially tricky to understand but once you get familiar, it becomes very powerful tool. As the name suggests, layout files are responsible for setting positions of various elements on the page and determining which phtml is loaded on which page and placed where. Read this full

Magento Module Development Series – Part3 – Advanced Layouts

In this blog we will look in some more advanced function that can be used on layout files.

In the previous blog we looked at some basics of layouts files. Read this full