This will be short, but as you know phtml template files in Magento are stitched together using layout XML files. Sometimes we might have the need to include a static block we have created in the backend to one of they layout XML files. Here is the XML snip one would use to evoke the backend static block in a XML layout file.
<block type="cms/block" name="YOUR CMS BLOCK IDENTIFIER">
...
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In the context of ever needing to get the “send an email to friend” url / link mark up from Magento in other scopes other than view.phtml (say a custom pthml file with layout specific needs that can be configured), here is what you do.
First we need to get our helpers / model / product like so:
<?php
$_product = Mage::registry('current_product');
$_helper =...
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Under either categories or CMS page’s design tab, include this XML command to remove the page title:
<remove name="page_content_heading" />
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Under either categories or CMS page’s design tab, include this XML command to remove the page’s breadcrumbs:
<remove name="breadcrumbs" />
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Today, we will talk about the re-size and mouse move events. These two events indeed are very helpful, but can also be very costly on your site or web app. Let’s take a look at an example of re-size for say window:
Vanilla JS versionwindow.addEventListener('resize', function(){
... logic ....
});jQuery version$(window).on('resize', function(){
... logic ...
});Standard...
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Today we are going to cover how to extract the polygonal data from Google Earth’s country borders and encode the data into a JavaScript array that we can use in Google maps. With the combination of both polygon borders and Google style wizard you can get some stunning map results.
[View Working Example Here]
To begin, download and install Google earth here. Once you have installed Google earth, open...
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Quick review of jQuery loops and traditional JavaScript loops and how to speed you looping up for both for and while JavaScript looping methods.
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Today I would like to talk a bit about setting up events on DOM using jQuery and how one should try to avoid setting up huge numbers of unnecessary events on a single document.
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Today we are going to learn how to use PHP GD to build a PHP server side script that can accept a local or even remote file, then bake any text we would like into the image and return it back to us as a .png. This is great for when you have the need to use custom marker icons in say Google Maps, but also would like to have numbers on the markers as well.
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