There appears to be a bug in magento 1.5x where by manually creating an order and trying to add a product does not work.  It appears to be an issue with ext-tree.js which is called unnecessarily on this page.

To fix edit app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/sales.xml

and add

<action method="removeItem"><type>js</type><name>extjs/ext-tree.js</name></action>

like so:

<adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
<reference name="left">
<action method="setIsCollapsed"><value>true</value></action>
</reference>
<reference name="head">
<action method="removeItem"><type>js</type><name>extjs/ext-tree.js</name></action>
<action method="addJs"><file>mage/adminhtml/sales.js</file></action>

This will affect older themes if you are upgrading Magento core,

There is a simple fix.

1. Copy wishlish.xml in base/default/layout to your_template/layout
2. Copy the whole wishlist folder in base/default/template to your_template/template
3. Refresh Cache

Provided you do not need an ssl cert for each domain it is relatively straight forward to create a multi-store setup.

1) configure magento.

In system > manage stores

Add a new website, store and store view for your new site. Remember the code for the website.

2) Create a domain alias for you new domain pointing to your existing domain.

3) Add a little logic to index.php

umask(0);

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "newdomain.com" || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "www.newdomain.com"){
$_SERVER["MAGE_RUN_CODE"] = "website_code";
$_SERVER["MAGE_RUN_TYPE"] = "website";
}

/* Store or website code */
$mageRunCode = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE'] : '';

/* Run store or run website */
$mageRunType = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE'] : 'store';

Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

If you are transferring older version of Magento to new servers or if you have upgraded your version of php to 5.3.3+ you will find some fatal errors while working with 1.3x versions of Magneto. There are 3 lines you will need to change in core code:

1) /lib/Varien/Object.php (Line 484)
replace __toString
with __invoke

2) /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Request/Http.php (Line 274)
replace split
with explode

3) app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php (Line 374)
replace split
with explode

If you have upgraded your magento or coppied it across from dev to live or live to dev you may find that Magento connect is throwing “Local file doesn’t exist:” error. This is generated from lib/Mage/Connect/Ftp.php. The error occurs if you have oped to use the new ftp connection method for magento connect. This is a long sought after method of using connect but this is the down side. Rather than store your ftp date in the database the Magento team have opted to store this info in a file… downloader/connect.cfg to be precise.

This is a text file which you will see contains the info you used when setting up Connect. Make the necessary changes to this to reflect the new server location.

For some reason it is easy to add the Paypal Express one click checkout option to the side bar cart in Magento. However, there is no instant way to do the same for Google Checkout.

So you will need to edit this by hand.

you can add the following code anywhere.. For this particular client we used:

/ app / design / frontend / base / default / template / checkout / cart / sidebar.phtml

add

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('googlecheckout/link')->setTemplate('googlecheckout/link.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

for example:

   <div class="actions">
        <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('extra_actions') ?>
        <button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Checkout') ?>" class="button" onclick="setLocation('<?php echo $this->getCheckoutUrl() ?>')"><span><span><?php echo $this->__('Checkout') ?></span></span></button>
    </div>

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('googlecheckout/link')->setTemplate('googlecheckout/link.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

    <?php endif ?>

A recent hosting customer is using Linnworks to post their catalogue to ebay, amazon and Magento. Despite following the guide lines here they were still unable to connect to their site. Eventually the Linnworks support were able to offer the following.

in lib/Zend/XmlRpc/Server.php

comment out:

if (!$matched)
{
#require_once 'Zend/XmlRpc/Server/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_XmlRpc_Server_Exception('Calling parameters do not match signature', 623);
}

hope this helps someone/

A typical error caused by the cache being on while a new custom CMS template is present without the required layout_handle.

Invalid id or tag ‘e36_CONFIG_GLOBAL.LOCK’ : must use only [a-zA-Z0-9_]
#0 /Zend/Cache/Core.php(545): Zend_Cache::throwException(’Invalid id or t...’)
#1 lib/Zend/Cache/Core.php(270): Zend_Cache_Core::_validateIdOrTag(’e36_CONFIG_GLOB...’)
#2 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Cache.php(329): Zend_Cache_Core->load(’CONFIG_GLOBAL.L...’)
#3 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(1051): Mage_Core_Model_Cache->load(’config_global.l...’)
#4 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php(523): Mage_Core_Model_App->loadCache(’config_global.l...’)
#5 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php(405): Mage_Core_Model_Config->_loadCache(’config_global.l...’)
#6 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php(286): Mage_Core_Model_Config->_canUseCacheForInit()
#7 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(359): Mage_Core_Model_Config->loadModulesCache()
#8 app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(295): Mage_Core_Model_App->_initModules()
#9 app/Mage.php(596): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#10 index.php(78): Mage::run(’’, ‘store’)
#11 {main}

the answer is to find the culprits..

search for possible problems..

grep -ir "<layouts>" ./app/code/local
grep -ir "<layouts>" ./app/code/community

open these and look for the missingpage_homepage-2col-leftand add your own

<config>
<global>
<page>
<layouts>
<homepage-2col-left>
<label>Home Page 2 colun left</label>
<template>page/homepage-2col-left.phtml</template>
<layout_handle>page_homepage-2col-left</layout_handle>
</homepage-2col-left>

</layouts>
</page>
</global>
</config>

source:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/66150/

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/site.php/viewthread/46203/P15/#t306155

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It would be very handy when a user uses Magento’s Email to a friend feature that at least an image of the product and description can be sent to the friend in question. While the Image can be added easily it is a little more tricky to get the description.

The product thumbnail variable is actually availabe by default. All you need to do is to add:

<img src="{{var product_image}} “ border="0" />

to your transactional email template.

In order to get the description you will need to a) lazily edit a core file b)

1. overload
Mage_Sendfriend_Model_Sendfriend
2. override
public function send()
3. add:

'product_description'   => $this->getProduct()->getDescription(),

e.g.: add line 5 to the default code

'name'          => $name,
                    'email'         => $email,
                    'product_name'  => $this->getProduct()->getName(),
                    'product_url'   => $this->getProduct()->getUrlInStore(),
                    'product_description'   => $this->getProduct()->getDescription(),
                    'message'       => $message,
                    'sender_name'   => $sender['name'],
                    'sender_email'  => $sender['email'],
                    'product_image' => Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($this->getProduct(),
                    'small_image')->resize(75),

4. add in product_share.html

{{htmlescape var=$product_description}}

thanks to Sparkasse on the Magento forums

These two very popular Free Magneto Extensions from Template Masters don’t play well together. If you try to use them both at the same time you will only get the output from EasySpotlight. The trick is to essentially blend the two together by copying the Easy Catalog Images extension code from easycatalogimg/view.phtml to easyspotlight/category/view.phtml

Easy Spotlight will help to display new products on main page, product catalog and products page.. Magento Easy Spotlight Extension Demo

Easy Catalog Images This extension will help to display child categories in products catalog. Installation and configuration will take approximately 5 minutes. Magento Easy Catalog Images Extension Demo

Both are easy to customise to create some very nice and powerful UI features. You can see how we have used it here to create an easy visual navigation.

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