I have just uploaded a long overdue update to the Fontis Australia extension. The big new feature is that it actually uses the postcode database that has been in there for the few versions! When entering the city in an address, such as when editing your address book or during checkout, you should now be prompted to select from a list of cities matching the text entered, along with the states and postcodes for those cities. Selecting one will fill out the state and postcode fields accordingly.
On Monday I released the Fontis Westpac PayWay payment gateway integration extension. Since the set up for this extension is bit more involved than some of the others I thought I’d post some more detailed instructions on how to get it up and running.
Shortly after the first anniversary of Magento, I noticed today that it’s been a year since I signed up for an account on the Magento site. Go figure!
The latest version (0.8) of the Fontis Australia Extension has been uploaded to Magento Connect. From my testing, there wasn’t anything that needed to be changed for compatibility with 1.1 – the minor changes were just functionality tweaks.
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.
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.