Month: April 2010
29
Apr
Catalog Search Index refresh running slow or halting/freezing
A lot of people are starting to find that with large catalogues that the new indexing manager in Magento 1.4 may be starting to time out when generating Catalog Search Index - Rebuild Catalog product fulltext search index. This usually … Continue reading
28
Apr
Magento random block generator / block randomiser
This could be pretty useful if you want to combine XML block control with a random content display (eg. banner ads). Very easily achieved, simply create 1 file in ./base/default/template/page/html/random_block.phtml <?php $children = $this->getSortedChildren(); if(is_array($children)) { shuffle($children); echo $this->getChildHtml($children[0]); } … Continue reading