As part of a larger modification I have been working on I decided to use straight database queries from inside Magento rather than try and find out (and spend time debugging) what the proper “Magento way” to achieve the same thing was. After a bit of investigation I came up with what I think will be most generally useful and should work from almost anywhere in a Magento system.
Archive for June, 2008
Yesterday at work I spent far too much time working on getting an accordion vertical navigation working in a new Magento design. In the interest of public education, here’s a walkthrough of how I went about getting this to work.
Today I discovered a problem with the way Magento allows you to upload images to attach to products: whenever I attempted to do so my entire browser would crash. (I’m using Firefox 2 on Linux.) Booting into Windows and using IE7 didn’t suffer from this problem so it was clearly an issue with Firefox. Looking into it a bit further, Magento uses Flash/Flex to allow file uploads so this is likely the root cause of the issue.
Upgrading to the latest version of Flash – 9.0.124.0 at the time I wrote this – solves the problem and allows image uploads. So if you’re having issues with getting this feature to work in Firefox I’d suggest upgrading Flash as the first thing to try.