Blog articles tagged with tutorial

How to programmatically create Views in Drupal 6

01.14.2010 10:08PM by Evan Johnson

So, this stumped me for a while. I needed my small custom Drupal module to select a bunch of nodes based on a CCK Date field and the Publish status. It is a pain to query the CCK tables directly, so every forum post I could find told me to do this via Views. That’s all well and good, but the instructions for doing this all involved creating...

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How to edit orders with Configurable Products in Magento

08.10.2009 05:35PM by Evan Johnson

Up to and including the current release of Magento (1.3.2.3), an admin cannot properly edit an order containing configurable products. Magento warns you of this when you click the “Edit” button, and if you proceed the order appears on the edit screen containing only the Simple and Virtual products. Configurable, Bundled, and other products are removed from the order.

I am finding this more and more with Magento: it is the...

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Changing Magento Order, Invoice and Shipping Number

07.09.2009 03:23PM by Evan Johnson

A client needed to change the default order numbering scheme in Magento 1.3. There is no simple administrative backend setting to do this, however. The order, invoice, shipping and credit memo numbers are fixed – 9 digits long prefixed with a 1. The client wanted all of their order numbers in the form "AZ-xxxxx" – two fixed letters, a dash, and then 5 digits. So… how go about changing this?

Looking...

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