Magento Load Product By Name / SKU / ID

// Load by name
$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->loadByAttribute('name', 'Ruby Ring');
$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('name', 'emerald earring');

// Load by SKU
$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku', 'Eram18j4');

//Load by ID (just load):
$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productID);

How To Upload File In Magento

if (isset($_FILES['logo']['name']) && $_FILES['logo']['name'] != '') {
    try {
        $uploader = new Varien_File_Uploader('logo');
        $uploader->setAllowedExtensions(array('jpg','jpeg','gif','png'));
        $uploader->setAllowRenameFiles(false);
        $uploader->setFilesDispersion(false);
        $path = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS;
        // $path = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'logo' . DS;
        $logoName = $_FILES['logo']['name'];
        $uploader->save($path, $logoName);
  
    } catch (Exception $e) {
  
    }
}

Magento Reindexing Problem Fixing programmability

When  ever  number of products  increased it get tuff to reindex all data it get more worse if you are on shared host. Now you can solve this issues with the code given below.

Create new file on your root i.e. reindex.php and copy all data given below and paste it in reindex.php
now you can start reindex data by just accessing URL like http://yourdomain.com/reindex.php

try{
 ob_implicit_flush(true);
 if(!ini_get('safe_mode')){set_time_limit(0);}
 ignore_user_abort(); 
 require_once("app/Mage.php");
 Mage::app('admin'); 
 Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true);
 umask(0);
 
 
 $HM = 800; 
 $STOREID = '1'; 
 $HOWTORUN = 1; 
 
 
  $total = NULL;
  if($HOWTORUN == 1)
  {
  
   $prodCount = "cm_pd";
   if((file_exists($prodCount))&&(filesize($prodCount)>1)){
$fh = fopen($prodCount, 'r');
$total = fread($fh,filesize($prodCount)) + 1;
fclose($fh);
}
else
{
$fh = fopen($prodCount, 'w') or die("can't open file");

$tmpIDs = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->getAllIds();

$total = $tmpIDs[sizeof($tmpIDs)-1]; //-1 Accounts for 0 in array.

fwrite($fh, $total);
fclose($fh);
}

}
else
{

if((!isset($_SESSION['pcount']))||($_SESSION['pcount']==NULL)){ 
$tmpIDs = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->getAllIds();
$endValue[sizeof($tmpIDs)-1]; 
$_SESSION['pcount'] = $endValue;
$total = $_SESSION['pcount'];
}
else{ $total = $_SESSION['pcount']; }

}
if($total == NULL){ throw new Exception("Total Wasn't Captured"); }


echo("\n$total\n");

$countFile = "cm_cnt";
$count = null;
$store = Mage::app()->getStore($STOREID);


if((file_exists($countFile))&&(filesize($countFile)>1)){
$fh = fopen($countFile, 'r');
$count = fread($fh,filesize($countFile)) + 1;
fclose($fh);
if((int)$count == 0) $count = 1;
}
else
{
$fh = fopen($countFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$count = 0;
if((int)$count == 0) $count = 1;
fwrite($fh, $count);
fclose($fh);
}



if($count < 2)
 {
   Mage::app()->cleanCache();

$flag = Mage::getModel('catalogindex/catalog_index_flag')->loadSelf();
if ($flag->getState() == Mage_CatalogIndex_Model_Catalog_Index_Flag::STATE_RUNNING) $flag->delete();
}

$max = ($count+$HM);
$sx = Mage::app()->getStore('1');

ob_start();
for($i = $count; $i <= $max; $i++)
 {
 ob_end_flush();
 ob_start();
    if($i == $total)
    {
      echo "




Completed
";
      @unlink($prodCount);
      @unlink($countFile);
     exit(1);
    }
 
 
   Mage::getSingleton('catalogindex/indexer')->plainReindex($i, null, $sx);
 
   echo("\n #Record $i#CURRENT MEMRY USAGE = ".memory_get_usage().";\n");
 

   $fh = fopen($countFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
   fwrite($fh, $i);
   fclose($fh);
 ob_flush();
 flush();
 }
 
}catch(Exception $e){ echo"
ERROR: $e
"; exit(1);}
#EOF
?>

Magento 'Shop By Brand' in SideBar

First create the template file and name it productbrand.phtml place it in catalog/product folder

copy the code given below and paster it in you productbrand.phtml

Note: Please chnage 'yourdomain.com' with your site domain name

<div>
<div>
<h4>
<span>Product Brands</span></h4>
</div>
<div style="padding-left:8px;">

<?php
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

$attributes = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId())->addFieldToFilter('attribute_code', 'manufacturer');

$attribute = $attributes->getFirstItem()->setEntity($product->getResource());

$manufacturers = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);

?>

<ul id="manufacturer_list"><?php foreach ($manufacturers as $manufacturer): ?>
<li><a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/catalogsearch/advanced/result/?manufacturer[]=<?php echo $manufacturer['value'] ?>"><?php echo $manufacturer['label'] ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>   </ul>
</div>
<div>
</div>
</div>

Create Customer By Code In Magento

Creating customer programmaticaly is easy just use the code below.

$websiteId = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId();
$store = Mage::app()->getStore();
 
//$customer = new Mage_Customer_Model_Customer();
$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");
$customer->website_id = $websiteId; 
$customer->setStore($store);
 
$customer->firstname = "vikram";
$customer->lastname = "singh";
$customer->email = "singh@yourdomain.com";
$customer->password_hash = md5("password");
$customer->save();

Change Admin URL In Magento

Its easy to change admin URL in Magneto, open local.xml at location below,

/app/etc/local.xml

now search for the code below

now replace 'admin' with your desired name.

as you do so your admin URL will be changed to adminarea

Magento Display Category BestSellers

 $curr_categoryid = Mage::registry('current_category')->getId();
$cat_Id= $curr_categoryid; 
 
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($cat_Id);
 
$products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')
        ->addOrderedQty()
        ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
        ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc')
        ->addCategoryFilter($category);