I just got this email from one Magento Hosting Provider – SimpleHelix which I mentioned before:

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Happy Holidays,

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So the link is here: https://www.simplehelix.com/

hosting

Subdirectory Method

This is the same scenario as above, except all of the shops will be in subdirectories, e.g.:

• mall.com/shoes
• mall.com/shirts

Here’s how we would set this up for the shoes subdirectory:

1. Login to your site via SSH, and create a subdirectory where your second store will be:
   • cd public_html
   • mkdir shoes/
   • cd shoes/
2. Copy the index.php and .htaccess file from the directory where Magento is installed, which would be in our root web directory:
   • cp ../public_html/index.php ../public_html/.htaccess .
3. Open up the index.php file that we just copied over and replace the following line of code:
   ^?View Code PHP

   1	$mageFilename = 'app/Mage.php';

   …with the following:

   ^?View Code PHP

   1	$mageFilename = '../public_html/app/Mage.php';

4. With the index.php file still open, replace the following line of code:
   ^?View Code PHP

   1	Mage::run();

   …with the following:

   ^?View Code PHP

   1	Mage::run('shoes', 'website');

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development · magento · multi · multiple · store

Adding Another Store In Magento

The first thing we need to do is setup our second store in Magento.

We’re going to do a hypothetical here for the naming conventions, and assume we own shirts.com. Adjust the values accordingly for your own store.

1. Login to the Magento admin.
2. Go to the Catalog tab, and select Manage Categories.
3. Click on the Add Root Category button on the left.
4. On the right, for the Name, we’ll enter Shoes.com. Set the dropdown to Yes for both Is Active and Is Anchor.
5. Click the Save Category button.

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magento · multi · multiple · store

As I mentioned before, I am doing a multi-language and multi-currency website at that moment. So I found a lots information about how to setup the multiple store from internet. Here is a good one:

From crucialwebhost.com

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There are numerous ways to setup multiple Magento stores that all share the same codebase and backend, but what method you use depends on your needs.

This article is written with cPanel in mind, though the methodologies listed below apply no matter what control panel you’re using.

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domain · magento · multi · multiple · store

Here is a quick reference for you, if you run Magento under Multi-language, Multi-Currency or Multi-Domain (Multi-Website).

Sometime you need pick up the Store ID do some (IF…ELSE…) work. Here is the code:

1

<?php $store_id = $this->helper('core')->getStoreId(); echo $store_id; ?>

magento · multi · store id

I am busy on a big project about Magento.
I will update the blog as my work notes.

We will add four fields into Account/Registration Page.

Four core files:

app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/template/customer/form/register.phtml – Has the HTML form for initial registration Note: this file will also be used for a one-shot database extension

app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/template/customer/form/edit.phtml – Has the HTML form for edit by customers

app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Entity/Setup.php – Has an array full of customer attributes to use for registration

app/code/core/Mage/Customer/etc/config.xml – Has a description of fields to be used in the forms

app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php – For checkbox option
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custom · magento

Some Methods to Speed up Magento – a Guide to Making Magento Faster

1. Install Fooman Speedster

This one made a massive difference to page loads for the first site I am testing.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/457/fooman-speedster

2. Enable Gzip Compression in .htaccess

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/7100/

To do this, uncomment this part in the .htacess: (Line 52)

#php_flag zlib.output_compression on

(ie Remove the # save and reupload)

(Next are from – http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/performance-is-key-notes-on-magentos-performance/)

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magento · speed

As I said before, I am developing a new multi-language website.

One is English, and another one is German.

But, on the SEF URL Identifier part, I only can use one language as SEF URL Identifier.

So .. for the SEO, it only can help on one language….

I am still keep searching the solution.

SEF URL · SEO

I moved my one MAGENTO site from test side to the live side.

But when we did test for the website, we were trying to add some item to the shopping bag, but we got the message said:

Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’6′ for key 1

After some research, here is solution:

Go to PHPMyAdmin, find out all tables like Log_*,

Delete all the contents in Log_* except the Log_Summary_type one.

The problem solved.

Integrity constraint violation · log · magento · shopping

Many people know, on the /app/locale/language pack folder, you can add translation which you want into the .csv files (for example, mage_page.csv).

But, sometime, we added/changed something on the .csv, but nothing happen.

Especially the words which you add/edit on the template files.

What is wrong?

If you want some word can automatic translate, you need write them as PHP FORMAT, not directly writing.

For example, you add one line in the homepage…

<h1>i am homepage</h1> this word can show on the page, but can not translate by Magento.

you must write word like below:

<h1><?php echo $this->__(‘i am homepage‘) ?></h1>

Done.

magento · multi-language · translation