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Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.

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› Distribute Magento extensions as a PEAR packages

Posted on 08 May 2010

Many users and developers do not know that Magento uses a PEAR-repository for installation and management of its extensions. Some of you might now ask: What is PEAR? PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) is - as the name indicates already - a repository for PHP-extensions and applications. PEAR was…

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› Using FirePHP with Magento

Posted on 05 Aug 2009

The good example of FirePHP usage in Magento has been introduced by ActiveCodeline in his post Utilize FireBug (and FirePHP) to speed up Magento development early this year. Here I would like to show you another place you can utilize that function in :)…

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› How to override email templates in Magento

Posted on 23 May 2009

In this post I would like to share the idea of overriding default email templates in a programmatic way and on per design basis. So, you can copy email templates from app/locale/en_US/template/email to app/design/frontend/<yourInterface>/default/locale/en_US/template/email and modify them as you like….

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