How to add Review form to Magento Product Review Tabs

If you are looking to add magento reviews form to your product page review tab, here is the step by step instructions for that.

Step:1 open: review.xml, in your “layout” directory.

Find following section:
<block type="review/product_view_list" name="product.reviews" as="reviews" template="review/product/view/list.phtml" after="additional">

Add the following inside this block:
<block type="review/form" name="product.review.form" as="review_form"/>
<block type="review/product_view_list" name="product.info.product_additional_data" as="product_additional_data_review" template="review/product/view/reviews-in-tab.phtml">
<block type="review/form" name="product.review.form" as="review_form"/>
</block>

So your final result should be as...

<catalog_product_view>
        <reference name="product.info">
            <block type="review/product_view_list" name="product.reviews" as="reviews" template="review/product/view/list.phtml" after="additional">
                <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
                <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Reviews</value></action>
                <block type="review/form" name="product.review.form" as="review_form"/>
                <block type="review/product_view_list" name="product.info.product_additional_data" as="product_additional_data_review" template="review/product/view/reviews-in-tab.phtml">
                <block type="review/form" name="product.review.form" as="review_form"/>
                </block>
            </block>
        </reference>
    </catalog_product_view>

Now clear your cache and check output.

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How to add rel=prev and rel=next to Magento product pagination

If you want to add rel=prev and rel=next for SEO purpose and high ranking of your website. Than follow easy step to add rel=prev and rel=next to Magento product pagination.

ex.
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/store.html?p=2">
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/store.html?p=4">

Update: Issue solved when filtering product list

1. So, if you didn’t already modified head.phtml file, create identical directory hierarchy and copy/paste head.phtml in your theme or package.

Path example if using package:
..\app\design\frontend\[your_package_name]\default\template\page\html\head.phtml

Path example if using theme:
..\app\design\frontend\default\[your_theme_name]\template\page\html\head.phtml

2. Add code below to head.phtml at the bottom of file.

$actionName = $this->getAction()->getFullActionName();
if ($actionName == 'catalog_category_view') // Category Page
{
     $category = Mage::registry('current_category');
     $prodCol = $category->getProductCollection()->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', array('in' =>     array(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_IN_CATALOG,   Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH)));
     $tool = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('page/html_pager')->setLimit($this->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/product_list_toolbar')->getLimit())->setCollection($prodCol);
     $linkPrev = false;
     $linkNext = false;
     if ($tool->getCollection()->getSelectCountSql()) {
     if ($tool->getLastPageNum() > 1) {
     if (!$tool->isFirstPage()) {
     $linkPrev = true;
     if ($tool->getCurrentPage() == 2) {
     $url = explode('?', $tool->getPreviousPageUrl());
     $prevUrl = @$url[0];
     }
     else

    {
          $prevUrl = $tool->getPreviousPageUrl();
     }
  }
  if (!$tool->isLastPage()) {
  $linkNext = true;
  $nextUrl = $tool->getNextPageUrl();
 }
 }
}
if ($linkPrev) echo '<link rel="prev" href="' . $prevUrl . '" />';
if ($linkNext) echo '<link rel="next" href="' . $nextUrl . '" />';
}

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How to convert ul/li (unordered list) into Dropdown using jquery

If you want to convert your ul/li into dropdown list, you can do it easily using jquery. If you have responsive web page and you want to convert your menu which is in ul/li structure and want to change in dropdown for small screen or mobile screen than use following jquery solution.

Suppose you have menu structure as:

<div class="menu">
<ul class="myclass">

        <li><a href="one.php">one</a></li> 

        <li><a href="two.php">two</a></li> 

        <li><a href="three.php">three</a></li> 

        <li><a href="four.php">four</a></li> 

        <li><a href="five.php">five</a></li> 

        <li><a href="six.php">six</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

and want to convert into dropdown as:

<select>

       <option value="one.php">one</option> 

       <option value="two.php">two</option> 

       <option value="three.php">three</option> 

       <option value="four.php">four</option> 

       <option value="five.php">five</option> 

       <option value="six.php">six</option> 

</select>

<script>

jQuery(document).ready(function()
{

    jQuery(function()
   {

        jQuery('ul.myclass').each(function()
       {

            var $select = jQuery('<select />');

            jQuery(this).find('a').each(function()
           {

               var $option = jQuery('<option />');

               $option.attr('value', jQuery(this).attr('href')).html(jQuery(this).html());

               $select.append($option);

$select.click(function()

              {

                if(jQuery(this).val() != "#")

               {

window.location.href = jQuery(this).val();

               }

            });

        });

jQuery(".menu").append($select);

    });

jQuery("ul.myclass").hide());

  });
});

</script>

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How to call custom module's phtml file into core phtml file of magento

This basic question for many people that how to call core phtml file into custom module. Before few days i have no answer. But today i have. If you want to call any custom file into for custom module's phml file you can do it as following.

In this example i call core list.phml into my custom module file.

<catalog_category_layered translate="label">
        <reference name="product_list">
            <action method="setTemplate">
                <template>customoption/customoption.phtml</template>
            </action>
        </reference>
</catalog_category_layered>

See how it works. customoption is my module name and customoption.phtml is my module phml file. And i replaced my default magento list.phml file with my module's phtml file. So suppose if you open your list page it will saw what ever in my customoption.phtml.

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How to Create CSV files in Magento

If you want to create downloadable csv of you ordered item's you can use following script.

$orders = Mage::getModel("sales/order")->getCollection();
// prepare CSV header
$csv = '';
$_columns = array(
     "Order Id",
     "Product Name",
     "Sku",
     "Price"
);
$data = array();
// prepare CSV header...
foreach ($_columns as $column) {
       $data[] = '"'.$column.'"';
}
$csv .= implode(',', $data)."\n";
foreach ($orders as $order) {
         $items = $order->getAllItems();
         foreach ($items as $item) {
               $loadProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($item->getProductId());
               //prepare csv contents
                $data = array();
                $data[] = $order->getId();
                $data[] = $loadProduct['name'];
                $data[] = $loadProduct['sku'];
                $data[] = $loadProduct['price'];

                $csv .= implode(',', $data)."\n";
               //now $csv varaible has csv data as string
    }
}
     
$this->_redirect('*/*/');
$this->_prepareDownloadResponse('file.csv', $csv, 'text/csv');

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