Unravelling Magento’s collectTotals: An Example
Previous Entries Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Core Process Part 3: Orders and Caveats Part 4: Invoices and Credit Memos In the previous entries in this series, we’ve dived into the process Magento...
View ArticleSave Credit Cards in Magento with Our New PayPal Extension
Classy Llama’s newly released PayPal Credit Card Tokenization extension adds a feature to Magento that’s been sorely missed by merchants who use PayPal as their payment service of choice: the ability...
View Article4 Handy Magento Features You’re Probably Not Using
In comparison with most web platforms, Magento is big. Like, really big. The published user guide for the latest Enterprise version – 1.13 – is 545 pages long. It’s safe to say most site owners don’t...
View ArticleMulti-Environment Magento Development with Modman
Note: modman, the tool that is the subject of this article, is for *nix or Mac OS X only. As an agency, most of our development at Classy Llama has typically been done in a self-contained context; one...
View ArticlePayPal Tokenization Extension Now Features Broader Support
In late 2013, Classy Llama released our PayPal Credit Card Tokenization extension. The primary feature of this extension is to introduce a “saved credit card” option for merchants without the necessity...
View ArticleUnravelling Magento’s collectTotals: Invoices and Credit Memos
Previous Entries Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Core Process Part 3: Orders and Caveats Quite some time ago (well over a year, in fact), I published a series of articles on Magento’s cart totals...
View ArticleMaking Your Magento Code More Portable
We all know we should be writing portable code. Functionality that’s reusable is sure to pay off in efficiency gains, and portable code is also naturally clearer, better organized and easier to...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Magento 2 Concepts You Need to Know
Are you a Magento developer who has yet to make the dive into Magento 2? Have no fear, because by the end of this article, you’re sure to be a bonafide Magento 2 expert! Well … perhaps not. Learning...
View ArticleIcon Fonts in Magento 2: A Foundation
Icons have a storied history on the web. In the bad old days, they were treated like any other images on a web page, implemented using individual image elements. This carried several negative...
View ArticleA Look at CSS and Less in Magento 2
Magento 2 leverages the enormous power of CSS pre-processing (via Less) to make theme customization intuitive and easily maintainable through features like variables, mixins, and imports. Less...
View Article