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General questions about Magento 1 not specific to a minor version. You can use it to distinguish from Magento 2, but if you have issues with a specific installation, use the appropriate magento-1.x tag instead.

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Is it possible to handle success / error messages from within blocks?

In general, I handle exceptions and display success or error messages within controllers. For example: Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session')->addSuccess(Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__("The cache s …
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Magento 1 - How to check if a product is new

For reference, here's the helper method that I came up with to check for newness. It supports both the Featured dropdown as well as the dates, and supports either date being empty as well. public …
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Magento 1 - How to check if a product is new

From a quick search the only reference I found was on the Magento forums which is suggesting that you have to write some custom code to check if a product is new. I would have thought there would be …
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Store code in URL for every store view except for default

I've enabled System > Config > Web > Add Store Code to URLs and I've setup a new Store View for Canada (/ca/). I'd like to ideally have example.com/ca/ load the Canada Store View, but still have exam …
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How can you override Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action

Specifically I'm interested in potentially overriding _isAllowed() so that it defaults to false instead of true. Most of the things I've found related to overriding controllers deal with how to overr …
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Notice: Trying to get property of non-object

Set a breakpoint in there to see exactly which XML node it's choking on. My guess is that you may have broken the config with some bad XML in a custom module. The place it's choking is: public func …
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Getting a "Please Specify a Shipping Method" exception during checkout

Might have figured this out. I had a related exception that was being thrown with about the same frequency as this one, which was "The requested Payment Method is not available". Turns out that th …
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Magento coding standards

I'd like to submit that we should be using the Magento 2 code sniff as a standard for both Magento 1.X and 2.X: https://github.com/cobhimself/phpcs-magento-rules/blob/master/ruleset.xml And here's es …
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Getting a "Please Specify a Shipping Method" exception during checkout

I've been getting exception logs for this error in production, but I'm unable to reproduce the issue in my local or staging environment, so it's been pretty hard to troubleshoot. The error originates …
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How do you manage inventory for a grouped product?

Let's say that you sell tickets for an event, and you have the following constraints: A max of 40 tickets can be sold for a given event slot You have 5 different price tiers but you can accomodate d …
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Version Control for Module Development

I'm wondering whether there are any good conventions, as far as version control goes, for developing a module that you are using both in a single Magento instance and also are wanting to release as a …
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