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Magento Blog by velite

Hello, welcome to velite's Magento Blog. We basically blog about good and innovative Magento Extensions. For sure we talk about new product releases, Beta Software and updates from velite™ Software and write about fancy Magento Templates. By the way, we are active on Twitter, go ahead and follow us.

 

Magento Superstage BETA

Magento Superstage BETA

Customers, newsletter subscribers and Twitter followers already had the chance to take a look at our upcoming extension Magento Superstage, which is currently running as Beta. Now you have the chance as well to get an insight on what is coming the next days on Magento Connect. Bounce to the Magento Superstage BETA page.

 
 
 

Best Themes & Extensions for Magento

The guys from Studio XL summarize the best and foremost free Community Magento Extensions as well as Templates in their latest Blog update. You may already know some of these featured Themes from Magento Connect just becaue of their popularity, but it seems they digged out some usable Extensions for Magento like "Magento LiveChat", "Magento EasyLightbox" or "Magento Blog" just to mention a few.

 
 
 

Zend Framework redirect from www

You may already know that velite.de is based on Zend Framework, just like Magento. For obvious reasons like SEO and style we wanted to redirect www.velite.de/foo to velite.de/foo. Even more because of the style fact than because of SEO. However, first I thought about implementing this by the standard mod_rewrite function in a .htaccess file. But I got the idea, it would be nicer realizing it within the Zend Framework itself. So I created a little Frontend Plugin I want to share with you, take a look:

class My_Controller_Plugin_Wwwredir extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
     $piece = strtolower(substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],0,4));
     if (strcmp($piece, 'www.')==0)
     {
          $url = 'http://' . substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],
               4).$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
          $response = $this->getResponse();
          $response->setRedirect( $url, 301 );
          $response->sendResponse();
          exit;
     }
}

 
 
 

Get started with Magento

Get started with Magento

The author Ed Baxter from Sheffield did a great job by creating the screencast "Easy E-Commerce With Magento" for Nettuts+. He demonstrates basic steps and processes how to get started with Magento such as how to download and install Magento to a local host and then configure Magento Store options. He also describes how to create simple, configurable products and categories. The screencast is assisted by a bunch of screenshots coming with short notices. Altogether a nice tutorial for getting into the basics of Magento Commerce.

 
 
 

Magento Version 1.3.2.2 is available

Magento Update 1.3.2.2

Varien just released the new Magento version 1.3.2.2 about 6 hours ago. It is now available for download and upgrade. This release includes issue resolution for Magento version 1.3.x. Take a look at the original article on magentocommerce.com or you may want to see the full list of changes on the release notes page.