When creating forms for Magento, it is helpful to know the different types of built-in fields that can be used while creating a form. The below examples can be used to create an admin form by extending the Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Form block. Hidden Field Text Time Textarea Submit Select Example 1 Example 2 Radio Example 1 Example…
DetailsIf you have an array that contains a hundred different values, you may be wondering how you can check if that array contains a certain string. As you may already know, you can use the foreach() function to echo out each value contained inside the array. But let’s imagine that we simply want to execute…
DetailsIf you need to insert a comma separated string into a variable you can accomplish this with the following code. Let’s take a look at our string. We can insert our string into an array by simply using the explode() function. Now if we use the print_r() function we can view our array. We should…
DetailsIf you find that you have a string that contains commas and you need to remove them you can do the following. Let’s assume your string looks like this. Now let’s strip those ugly commas from our variable $myString using the str_replace() function. That’s it, enjoy!
DetailsSometimes you may need to extract or create an archive file on your Linux server. The very first step in the process would be to identify the exact archive type by looking at the file extension. The most common archive types are zip (ending with .zip), tar (.tar), Tar+Gunzip (.tar.gz), Bzip (.bz2) and Rar (.rar).…
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