Srka Magento Unicache is an extremely simple and useful little extension that you can use to cache any kind of text/string based data in Magento. It uses helpers to make it accessible from anywhere; from template files to your own custom code.
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In the first part of this tutorial we have seen how a custom model that will render a comment for system configuration field can be defined. We have used this to render a comment depending on saved value of the field. That’s all nice, but what about changing the contents of the comment in real-time without having to save the configuration in order to preview the changes? In this post I will show you how to do exactly that.
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There is a little known option available to Magento developers that can help you provide better UX in Magento system configuration admin area. We are talking about an actual built-in method for loading dynamic comment contents for a configuration field in your Magento module. Sounds cool? That’s because it is.
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Srka Flick Gallery is a feature rich and easy-to-use Magento extension that will let you integrate any Flickr gallery into your Magento website. It is fully customizable through a simple Magento admin configuration page and it uses its own system to cache Flickr API requests making it blazingly fast. Extension is tested on Magento CE 1.8 but it should work fine in other versions. It’s completely free and open-source.
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If you think that default Magento ratings table on the product review page is ugly and hard to use and you want to replace it with easy to use rating stars you are not alone. After searching for it for a while (because I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel) I found that there are no simple and free Prototype JS solutions that I could just plug in to all my projects and be done with it so I decided to make my own. I am a big fan of simplicity and I think you’ll be able tell once you try this plugin. I know that there are a ton of simple and free jQuery solutions but as we all know Magento still uses Prototype JS and I don’t want to add jQuery to the project just because of review stars.
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