SentientCreations » PHP http://sentientcreations.com Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Add A New Products Section to a Magento Store Homepage http://sentientcreations.com/2009/12/19/add-a-new-products-section-to-a-magento-store-homepage/ http://sentientcreations.com/2009/12/19/add-a-new-products-section-to-a-magento-store-homepage/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:08:04 +0000 admin http://sentientcreations.com/?p=30 Was looking for a way to add a New Products section to the homepage of a Magento store I’m working on a found a great write up on Richard Castera’s blog. All you really have to do is add this code to the homepage code in your CMS section:

{{block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_homepage"template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

Check out the full [...]]]> Was looking for a way to add a New Products section to the homepage of a Magento store I’m working on a found a great write up on Richard Castera’s blog. All you really have to do is add this code to the homepage code in your CMS section:

{{block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_homepage"template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

Check out the full blog post with some great back and forth and troubleshooting tips.

Once you have the new products displaying, this post on the Magento site will show you how to have more than five products displayed and how to add more than one row.

]]> http://sentientcreations.com/2009/12/19/add-a-new-products-section-to-a-magento-store-homepage/feed/ 0 Could It Really Be That Easy? http://sentientcreations.com/2009/12/01/could-it-really-be-that-easy/ http://sentientcreations.com/2009/12/01/could-it-really-be-that-easy/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:37:06 +0000 admin http://sentientcreations.com/?p=28 In a project we are working on we needed a way to extract the number portion of a weight from a string. So we could receive any of the following:

21 21 lbs 21.3 21.3 lbs

We started looking into some regular expressions to do the job, but then ran across a page saying that you can just cast it [...]]]> In a project we are working on we needed a way to extract the number portion of a weight from a string. So we could receive any of the following:

21
21 lbs
21.3
21.3 lbs

We started looking into some regular expressions to do the job, but then ran across a page saying that you can just cast it to a float or int and it will drop the string bit automatically like so:

<?php
$string = “22.8 lbs”;
echo (float)$string;
?>

<?php
$string = “22.8 lbs”;
echo (float)$string;
?>

This should output 22.8. Not perfect for every situation, but pretty handy in the right one.

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