How to Create a block in Magento

Many time we need to create a new block in Magento sites.There are two types of Block in Magento:-
1. Structural Blocks
2.Content Blocks For more detail see here.
Step 1 :- Now we are going to create a new Structural Blocks for this you have to create a new file local.xml in your them's layout folder and put this code:-

<?xml version="1.0"?>

  
 
 
   
    Featured Product
   
  
    

How to modify/change shpping price in Magento

If you want modify or change Shipping price in Magento then we can do it using Observer So let's see how to do it:- We are going to create a Custom Module for it.
Step 1:- So let's create a config file Arunendra_Extrashipcost.xml in app/etc/modules put following code in this file:-

<?xml version="1.0"?>



    
        true
        local
    

Step 2:- create following folder and file under app/code/local
1:-Arunendra/Extrashipcost/etc/config.xml
2:-Arunendra/Extrashipcost/etc/Model/Observer.php
Step 3:-Put following code in config.xml file:-

<?xml version="1.0"?>


  

    
      0.1.0
    
  
	
		
            
            Arunendra_Extrashipcost_Model
            
		
	
 
	
		
			
				
					singleton
					extrashipcost/observer
					salesQuoteCollectTotalsBefore
				
			
		
	

 

Step 4:-Put following code in Observer.php file:-

<?php
class Arunendra_Extrashipcost_Model_Observer
{
 public function salesQuoteCollectTotalsBefore(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
    {
         $quote = $observer->getQuote();        
	    $store    = Mage::app()->getStore($quote->getStoreId());
        $carriers = Mage::getStoreConfig('carriers', $store);     
		$newFee = 	floatval($carriers['flatrate']['price'] * 0.15);
        foreach ($carriers as $carrierCode => $carrierConfig) {
            if($carrierCode == 'flatrate'){          
			
                    Mage::log('Handling Fee(Before):' . $store->getConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/handling_fee"), null, 'shipping-price.log');
                    $store->setConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/handling_type", 'F'); #F - Fixed, P - Percentage                 
                    $store->setConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/handling_fee", $newFee);     
                    ###If you want to set the price instead of handling fee you can simply use as:
                    #$store->setConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/price", $newPrice);     
                    Mage::log('Handling Fee(After):' . $store->getConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/handling_fee"), null, 'shipping-price.log');
            
            }
        }
    }
}
?>

how to add a custom column in Magento sales/order grid

Step 1 :- Copy app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Sales\Order\grid.php
to
app\code\local\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Sales\Order\grid.php now Find _prepareColumns() function to Add column use this code:-

$this->addColumn('color ', array(
    'header' => Mage::helper('sales')->__('color #'),
    'index' => 'color',
    'sortable'  => false,
    'filter'    => false,
    'renderer' => 'Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Renderer_Productatt',
));

Step 2:- Create a new file at :-
app\code\local\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Sales\Order\Renderer\Productatt.php add this code :-

<?php
class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Renderer_Productatt extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Column_Renderer_Abstract
{
    public function render(Varien_Object $row)
    {                    

         $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->load($row->getData('entity_id'));              
            $attribute ="";

        foreach($order->getAllVisibleItems() as $_item){  
        $product    =   Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_item->getProductId());         
       if($product->getAttributeText('color')){
            $attribute .= $product->getAttributeText('color');
       }
    }
        unset($order);
        return $attribute;      
    }       
}
?>

How to send custom attribute in magento Order email.

Recently i was working on a project and my client want to send a custom shipping note in order email.
So lets's see how to achieve this:-
Create a file On this location app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/template/email/shipnote.phtml in this file i am getting shipnote info i am installed following extension for it :-
https://github.com/drewhunter/ShipNote
Now in shipnote.phtml i have added following code.

<?php

$order = $this->getOrder();
$shipNoteId = $order->getShipNoteId();
$ShipnoteModel = Mage::getModel('shipnote/note')->load($shipNoteId);    
echo 'Pickup Location :- '.$ShipnoteModel->getNote();
?>

Now open your transactional email template you can find it system->>Transactional Emails or app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales/order_new.html and add following code in it:-

{{block type='core/template' area='frontend' template='email/shipnote.phtml' order=$order}}

Fix CSS hover on iPhone/iPad/iPod

Copy this code and paste it any where in your file.
Make sure jQuery included in your page.