Archive: widget interface

New in 1.1: 1) Testimonials functionality *Option to approve results for a web-form *New testimonials form *New widget to publish form results *You can now approve customers results and post them on your site with the new widget. *Dispatch event for approval. For example, you can reward customers with [...]

For anyone following the old widget tutorial in Magento Knowledge Base you’ll find yourself getting the error: Fatal error: Interface ‘Mage_Cms_Block_Widget_Interface’ not found This is because the interface has been renamed Mage_Widget_Block_Interface in at least version 1.4.0.1. Source No related posts. Mage_Cms_Block_Widget_Interface not found Possibly Related Posts: Magento admin route extension resulting in 404 Sort [...]

Magento uses a fantastic event hooking system, following the well known Observer Design Pattern, allowing additional functionality to be plugged in and out without modifying the core code. It can be difficult to know the names of the various hooks used all over the code base and even more difficult to find where they are [...]

Just a quick one. If you need to redirect to a URL outside of your regular Magento Base then its no use using: $this->_redirect($path) ..instead use: $this->_redirectUrl($url) The only time to use the _redirect variant would be to redirect to an internal module/controller/action/param1/param1value page, where as _redirectUrl is geared towards your external URLs. Back to [...]