Tag Archive - array

Set All Your Magento Categories to is_anchor

February 6, 2011 in Magento with Comments Off

I recently was tasked to set every category inside our Magento installation have its is_anchor attribute set to true. We have over 600 categories so it would be a huge task to do this by hand so I put together a quick script that did this in less than a minute.

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

// Load Up Magento Core
define('MAGENTO', realpath('/path/to/magento'));

require_once(MAGENTO . '/app/Mage.php');

$app = Mage::app();

$categories = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
 ->getCollection()
 ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
 ->addAttributeToFilter('is_anchor', 0)
 ->addAttributeToFilter('entity_id', array("gt" => 1))
 ->setOrder('entity_id')
 ;

foreach($categories as $category) {
 echo $category->getId() . "\t" . $category->getName() . "\n";
 $category->setIsAnchor(1);
 $category->save();
}

The first thing I did was pull in Magento’s functionality so I could load up a collection of categories. You will notice that I only got categories that had their is_anchor property set to 0 and an entity_id greater than 1.

From there I did a foreach on all the categories and set the category is_anchor property to 1 and saved it. I decided to echo out the category name so I could watch the script process the categories.

Use jQuery To Make Multiple Columns The Same Size

October 8, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Probably just about every web developer has run into this problem. You have a two or three column layout on your website and your center column has a ton of great content that spans a very long way down the page and your side bars are short. They are different colors and they just look funny. Well today I have the solution for you!

Using jQuery you can actually tell your columns to become the same height as the longest column. It is actually very easy to do and you will find that you use this over and over again.

Let’s take a look at the code:

function heightmatch(columns) {
 var highest = 0;
  for( var i in columns ) {
   if( $(columns[i]).height() > highest ) {
    highest = $(columns[i]).height();
   }
  }

  for( var j in columns ) {
   $(columns[j]).height(highest);
  }
}

As you can see the code is very simple. You pass the function an array of your jQuery selectors that you want to be the same height and it goes through, finds the longest one, and then sets the height of all of them to the tallest value.

Very simple. You can expect this to be in the jQuery Toolkit that I we are planning on putting together.

Advanced jQuery Ajax Options

September 4, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Yesterday we discussed how you can use jQuery as an Ajax library for your web application. The discussion only covered the most basic options to make the Ajax work. There are many more options available to modify how the Ajax behaves. Today we will discuss those options.
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