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If you need to send some custom emails as part of a custom Magento module development project, you will stumble into the Magento email template system and its confusing mixture of XML requirements. Rather than go into too much detail here are some pointers about how to achieve what you want to do. 1. You [...]

If you love template path hints in Magento for quickly figuring out which template file or block you need to edit or override and have a requirement for some admin side coding, you are going to love this. You might not have thought it was possible to enable template path hints in admin, but it [...]

If you are having a weird problem with your payment modules not saving the configuration when you edit them via the admin, try this to see if it fixes it: in admin/modules.php find: PLAIN TEXT PHP: while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { and replace it with PLAIN TEXT PHP: //while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { [...]

After a few hours of intense googling I have finally figured out why my Magento custom module is refusing to activate. I finally figured it out. It's all because the snippet of XML that I copied and pasted off a tutorial somewhere did not have the right capitalisation. doesn't work - EC_All.xml PLAIN TEXT XML: [...]