Magento: Paypal express checkout unable to communicate with gateway
Do you have PayPal express checkout on your website? Does it give the following error message when pressing the “Check out with PayPal” button?: Unable to communicate with the PayPal gateway. If you...
View ArticleMagento admin login process extremely slow
It happened to me that when I tried to log in to the Magento admin, the login process took about 20 seconds or more. It was really annoying, and I was sure that it is a coding issue, because the rest...
View ArticleMagento: How to get admin URL programmatically
The backend (or admin) URL is configured in app/etc/local.xml. We need to parse that file. It is easier than I thought first. $adminURL =...
View ArticleMagento: How to remove index.php from admin URL
As you may already know, the index.php from the URLs can be easily removed from the frontend, by going to System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engine Optimization and setting Use Web...
View ArticleMaking work Magento with PHP 7 RC1, RC2 and RC3
I was curious whether it will work with PHP 7 the latest version of Magento Community Edition. When I write this article the latest released version is 1.9.2.1. As I expected, Magento has crashed with...
View ArticleContent disappeared partially after upgrading or patching Magento
I just met the problem, that after the SUPEE-6788 patch was applied to the website or the Magento was upgraded to at least version 1.9.2.2, some stuff has disappeared from the frontend. It was really...
View ArticleOur first extension for Magento 2
We are proud to announce our first public extension for Magento 2, the Attribute Import-Export. It imports and exports Magento attributes, attribute options and attribute swatches. Being compatible...
View ArticleWhy model overriding does not work
I just met a case when overriding a module in Magento 1.x didn’t work. After some digging it has turned out that it will work only when the slashed notation of class naming is used. I won’t write down...
View ArticleThe Code007 shop has opened
It was a long time ago I have posted my last article, but this doesn’t mean that I’ve been on a long vacation in the meantime. In the last couple of months I was working on some Magento modules, which...
View ArticleMagento 2 backend slow
Hey, I just found this interesting article about the slow Magento 2 backend and how to solve it. Maybe some of you are interested, so I’m sharing it:...
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