Author: Santhosh P

Magento Certified Developer
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Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 is Now Available

The latest stable release of the Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 is now ready to download. This will be a great opportunity to built a more secure site with the best quality.

Features of Magento CE 1.9.2

Updates technology and improves quality

Latest versions of the Zend 1 Framework and Redis integration comes with the new release. Over 105 quality improvements will be provided throughout the product.

Automated functional testing framework

The new release will provide almost 170 automated functional tests for merchants with in house development teams. This will help to maximise the quality. At the time of marketing, it is easier to do basic acceptance testing when adding extensions, making customizations, or upgrading.

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Marketz – Useful free marketplace magento extension

If you are looking to convert your existing Magento store to a cutting-edge market place platform, here is Marketz, a super cool Multi-Vendor extension from cartin24 Team.

Using Marketz multi-Vendor magento extension, magento store owners are able to transform their existing store to a fantastic marketplace. Every website owner can now sell his/her products and allow others to sell their products too. Also, with this plug-in, the owners can easily earn additional revenue by setting up commission fee for every purchase of vendor products.

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Magento 2

Magento is an eCommerce platform built on open source technology that provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system. It offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.
Magento is the fastest growing and most powerful eCommerce platform in the world. Since being launched in 2007, Magento has grown to become one of the most powerful eCommerce platforms in the industry.

Why is Magento the most preferred E-Commerce Platform?

  • Magento platform comes packed with loads of user-friendly features.
  • It allows updating ecommerce website automatically, which is not available in other e- commerce platforms.
  • It is simple, quick and versatile, which makes it easy for customers to search and purchase products and services through Magento-powered websites.
  • Magento offers users with highly interactive shopping experience.
  • Besides supporting multiple website, Magento also lends support to online stores in promoting their inventory in diverse domains.
  • Magento being designed to be a configuration based MVC system (along with a range of extensions) helps to make website highly scalable.
  • Magento e-commerce platform features include a powerful SEO, marketing and catalogue management tools so as to fulfill exclusive business requirements of merchants.
  • It can increase the efficiency of operations and widen product reach by integrating Magento store with other outlets.

Versions of Magento

One of the currently used version in Magento is the Community Edition, which is free, open source platform that is designed for developers to build upon.

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Add “wysiwyg” editor in magento Custom Module

Go to the file {your magento root folder}/Block/Adminhtml/{module name}/Edit/Tab/Form.php add following code in top of the file

$fieldset->addField(
	'followupemail_text',
	'editor', 
	 array('name'=>'followupemail_text',
	 'label' => Mage::helper('followupemail')->__('Content'),
	 'title' => Mage::helper('followupemail')->__('Content'),
	 'required' => true,
	 'style' => 'height:24em;','config' => $wysiwygConfig, 
	));

go to the file {your magento root folder}/Block/Adminhtml/{module name}/Edit.php add the following line in this file

protected function _prepareLayout() { // Load Wysiwyg on demand and Prepare layout if (Mage::getSingleton('cms/wysiwyg_config')->isEnabled() && ($block = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head'))) { $block->setCanLoadTinyMce(true); } parent::_prepareLayout(); }

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