This is a simple script based upon AWS SDK PHP to manage volume’s snapshots. It simply create one snapshot per volume (once you run it) and delete snapshot older then 1 month. Please provide your personal information by copying config-sample.inc.php into config.inc.php. Run the script backup-snapshots.php with your CRON. For example: # Auto AWS Snapshots [...]

Here is how to get a collection of products best sold in a given date range (could be daily, monthly, weekly, etc…) <ul> <?php $from = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", (time()-2592000)); $to = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time()); $_productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection') ->addAttributeToSelect('*') ->addOrderedQty($from, $to, true) ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1) ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc') ->getSelect()->limit(10)->query(); foreach ( $_productCollection as $prod ) : $_product = [...]

You know you will need, before or after, to add your own custom RSS feeds to your Magento. For example, I needed to create some custom RSS Feeds to list bestseller products by date (bestseller weekly, monthly, etc…) How to do it? It’s quite complex but not so much if you follow this mini tutorial: [...]

Probably you know it’s possible to add a product to the cart via querystring, but may be you prefer code a new module for your needs using Magento objects and methods. So adding a simple product is easy: … $cart = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart'); // start adding the product try { $cart->addProduct($product, array('qty' => 1)); // save [...]

If you have to export all or a part of your Magento products you can try this simple script which creates a products collection and writes a simple and custom XML file per product (but you can simply change it to write a single long XML file). Hope you enjoy it! <?php // Magento XML [...]

Per integrare tutte le funzioni di WordPress su Magento in modo da poter fare chiamate come wp_list_pages(), wp_list_categories() o la famosa WP_Query, basta far caricare WordPress da Magento prima che si carichi lui stesso (per evitare il sovrapporsi di header e funzioni varie). Aprite il file index.php di Magento, all’inzio inserite le due righe: define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); require('/<you absolute path to wordpress root>/wp-load.php'); [...]

Here is my current Google Chrome extensions I use every days, hope you find something useful. You could find your best extensions in the official Google Chrome Extensions site. SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar SEO Status is lightweight. It will check the Google Pagerank (PR) & Alexa rank for every page. Using this will increase your [...]

Tanto per non scordarmeli appunto alcuni suggerimenti molto utili sulla gestione di Magento: per disabilitare la frase “Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons” quando occorre un errore e farlo printare a schermo basta modificare il file “errors/local.xml.sample” se invece non volete abilitare il printing (che e’ meglio) ma volete comunque vedere di [...]

Quando il tuo web server non riescie piu’ a gestire le numerose richieste che gli arrivano da tutto il mondo, e’ ora di pensare di cambiare gestione di Apache2 per qualcosa che richieda meno risorse e risulti piu’ performante. La soluzione di usare Apache in modalita’ “worker” (multi-threaded) invece di quella tradizionale “prefork” e’ il [...]