Chrome’s Inspect Element flagged up the following files as returning a 404 Page Not Found error.

js/scriptaculous/builder.js
js/scriptaculous/effects.js
js/scriptaculous/dragdrop.js
js/scriptaculous/controls.js
js/scriptaculous/slider.js

The solution was to just download a fresh copy of Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com/download) and restore the js/scriptaculous/ folder.

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<global>
    <events>
        <admin_system_config_changed_section_nameofyoursection>
            <observers>
                <yourmodule>
                    <type>singleton</type>
                    <class>yourmodule/observer</class>
                    <method>adminSystemConfigChangedSectionNameofyoursection</method>
                </yourmodule>
            </observers>
        </admin_system_config_changed_section_nameofyoursection>
    </events>
</global>

Now create a PHP file, Observer.php, under your module’s Model folder. Model/Observer.php. Add the following code.

<?php
class Your_Module_Model_Observer
{

    public function adminSystemConfigChangedSectionNameofyoursection()
    {
        // Do something here - e.g. send an email, log the action, etc.
    }

}
?>

Make sure you clear Magento’s cache before testing the code.

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I started giving a little attention to the Facebook Ads that appear on the right hand side of their website. Something odd caught my attention. Designers Sunglasses UK by The Shabby Sheep? UK Designers Sunglasses by Monogram International, Inc? I clicked on the Facebook page links and they opened up fan pages that had nothing to do with Sunglasses! What! Wait a minute… I clicked on the ad title. Both the links took me to websites that looked exactly the same but with different business names.

The Shabby Sheep’s fan page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shabby-Sheep/146223385417120
The target website: http://www.sunglassestradeoutlet.com/featured_products.html

Monogram International, Inc’s fan page: https://www.facebook.com/MonogramInternational
The target website: http://www.sunglassesfit.com/featured_products.html

I performed a Google search and read about various blogs that criticise Facebook for not quality controlling display ads that appear on their website. Facebook’s ad platform is not a newbie! Surely, by now they should have developed algorithms to root out scamsters? Maybe it is a temporary glitch in their advertising network? Has anyone else noticed such false ads on Facebook?

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{{htmlescape var=$order.getCustomerEmail()}}

This will display the email address of the customer in the order emails.

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{{var order.getOnestepcheckoutCustomercomment()}}

This will display the order comments in the order emails sent out by your Magento store.

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The notice says that by using Google’s search searchers are agreeing to allow Google to store cookies on their devices.

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<?php

$cmsPageUrlKey = Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier();

?>

This will return the path that comes after the website’s URL. For example, the URL identifier for the About Us page might be about-us and not the full URL like http://www.yourwebsite.com/about-us/. If you want the full URL including your website address, then you should use the following piece of code.

<?php

$cmsPageUrl = Mage::getUrl() . Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier();

?>

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$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/json');
$this->getResponse()->setBody($jsonData);

Read this post on how to use Magento’s core helper to encode and decode JSON.

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$jsonData = Mage::helper('core')->jsonEncode($array);

To JSON decode an array

$array = Mage::helper('core')->jsonDecode($jsonData);

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/* Returns boolean true or false */
Mage::getConfig()->getModuleConfig('Namespace_Modulename')->is('active', 'true');

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/* Get all the items in the cart */
$cartItems = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getAllItems();
/* Iterate through the items */
foreach ($cartItems as $item) {
    /* Load the product and get the custom attribute */
    Zend_Debug::dump(Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($item->getProduct()->getId())->getMyCustomAttribute());
}

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