In this post I will show you how to get the parent URL of a child product EFFICIENTLY (that means, unlike the very common mistake most Magento developers do, it is a way that will not slow your website down). Let’s say you have configurable products in your Magento site. Each configurable...
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The Architecture of Magento Layered Navigation
Posted in: Magento Layered Navigation | , by Alona
So how actually does Magento Layered Navigation work? It may sound surprising, but a chunk of code that triggers all the functionality of the layered navigation, is placed in “Mage_Catalog_Block_Layer_View”, inside the function “_prepareLayout()”. When is the function _prepareLayout being called? The function “_prepareLayout()” exists in every block, and it’s being called...
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What is Magento Layered Navigation
Posted in: Magento Layered Navigation | , by Alona
This article is the first article within the sequences of articles/tutorials about Magento Layered Navigation. What is Magento Layered Navigation? Magento Layered Navigation is a piece of functionality that allows customers to filter categories in the following way: If you have to example a category named “Apparel” and the products inside this...
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