Magento Development

If you want to add Google Analytics to your Magento store, don’t go diving into templates or setting fancy layout updates.. The good folks at Magento have made it nice and easy; simply enable Google Analytics in your Magento admin.

Magento’s default contact form asks the user for the essential contact info, e.g. name, email etc.. But you may need to ask for some additional info by adding some custom fields. Here’s how to do it.

If you need to add a custom State / Province / Region to a Country in Magento, you’ll need to modify the database manually as there currently isn’t a means to do this from within the Magento admin. Fortunately it’s pretty simple.

The best way to access and manipulate data in Magento is by using the provided objects and their associated functionality. If you really need to deal with raw queries you can do that too.

Before running any stand alone scripts that use core Magento objects and functionality, you need to make sure Magento is properly initialised. Add this snippet to the top of your script, updating the path according to your installation.