1. How to display New products on Home page?
For displaying new products on Home page go to
“CMS -> Manage Pages” and select “Home page” from the list of pages.
Add following line of code in it
{{block type=”catalog/product_new” name=”home.catalog.product.new”
alias=”product_homepage” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml”}}
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2. How to show cart quantity and total price in header?
To show cart quantity and total price add the following code to
app/design/frontend/default/[Your Theme]/template/page/html/header.phtml
<a href=”<?php echo $this->getUrl(”).”checkout/cart/”;?>” >Your Basket<strong>(<?php if(Mage::helper(‘checkout/cart’)->getSummaryCount() > 0) { echo Mage::helper(‘checkout/cart’)->getSummaryCount(); } else { echo “0”; }?>)</strong> Total: <?php echo $this->helper(‘checkout’)->formatPrice(Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/cart’)->getQuote()->getGrandTotal()); ?>
<?php if ($_subtotalInclTax = $this->getSubtotalInclTax()): ?>
(<?php echo Mage::helper(‘checkout’)->formatPrice($_subtotalInclTax) ?><?php echo Mage::helper(‘tax’)->getIncExcText(true) ?>)
<?php endif; ?>
Sample Output : Your Basket(0) Total: $0.00
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3. How to add social links on Product page in Magento?
<a title=”Share on Facebook” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=getProductUrl() ?>&t=Check+this+out” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(”) ?>/images/YOUR IMAGE” alt=”Share on Facebook” />
</a><a title=”Send to Twitter!” href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Check out the <?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?> at <?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?> @ SITENAME” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(”) ?>/images/icons/YOUR IMAGE” alt=”Follow us on Twitter” /></a>
app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\product\view.phtml
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4. Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons Erro in Magento :
If you face any issue like as below Issue:
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons
Error log record number: *********
here has been an error processing your request
Solution :
In this case we need to check following steps.
Step 1 : Go to folder /errors/
Step 2 : Change local.xml.sample to local.xml
Step 3 : after this change you can see few more errors.
then Open magento/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php
and search
From
protected $_options = array(
‘cache_dir’ => ‘null’,
To
protected $_options = array(
‘cache_dir’ => ‘tmp/’,
Save the changes.
Step 4 : create tmp folder under root magento folder.