Many developers are familiar with the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern that is seemingly ubiquitous throughout web frameworks. Looking through the code in Magento, however, we see many other components besides the M’s the V’s and the C’s.
Each module  (a “module” meaning the separate directories within the “app/code/core/Mage” directory that comprise of Magento’s different functional areas) contains the usual Controller and Model. You’ll see that within each module, there are no Views (more on this later). You’ll also see extra tidbits, such …

Some of you who work with Magento for a long time might think that this topic is so clear that it doesn’t need to have an article. We get many inquiries to finalize the work somebody already started. One of the things we notice is that some developers tend to embed the Google Analytics code directly in the Magento theme files. Yes, it works and you will see the standard traffic data in the Google Analytics interface, but it is not a way to go.
In most of the cases, those …

1) Download Sample Data zip file from Magento Website
2) Extract the zip file
3) Drop all the tables from your magento database. It would be easy to drop the magento database and then recreate it instead of dropping individual tables.
4) Import sample data sql file into your magento database.
# Remember that, you have to drop all tables from your magento database before importing the sample sql file. You will get error afterward if you import the sample data without dropping tables from your magento database. Therefore, step 3 is important.
5) Go …

This admin page will help to package your extensions, such as modules, add-ons, language packs, interfaces and themes, into PEAR packages which you could upload to MagentoConnect and share with other community members.
For starting on extension packaging process, log in to Magento Admin panel and go to :
Admin Panel: » System » Magento Connect » Package Extenssions
You can easily follow the 5 step process there to generate the extension that are described in the remaining article.
The extension packaging process includes generation of package.xml file with information about the package collected …

I’m back with another tutorial about Magento. I’m not the best man you can find about Magento. But I’m trying to learn something from forums. The best you learn something is when you can explain it to someone else. So this is for that!
As I had mentioned in my previous post Magento is an open source ecommerce application made with PHP and Zend Framework. Company behind it is very dedicated to this project and works a lot about it. But the missing part is the tutorials I guess. There isn’t …

Problem Description
While installing magento on xampp version 2.5 you have provided admin username and password. After installation finished you no longer login with your admin account. In fact in the “Log in to Admin Panel” window whenever you provide wrong password/username combination it displays “Invalid Username or Password.” But whenever you provide correct password it does not show anything. Though a new url like
http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin/index/index/key/d135be4de664ab83db829120740e058a/
is displayed on the address bar.
Everytime you do this you can’t log in to admin panel.
Cause of the problem
The problem occurs because magneto could not store cookies. …