Out of box, VirtueMart products have many “fields”, product name, sku, price, etc. If you need an additional field or two for your own business needs, you can do that by changing data model as well as some php code. It’s a bit of work … hope this post can help save you some time […]
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Add a New Field to Products in Joomla! VirtueMart
June 10th, 2008Get mosimage show up on Joomla Page
June 4th, 2008I was custom developing a new feature for a Joomla! site and encountered a problem. I had piggy-backed the new feature on Joomla! content so I don’t have to code all administration aspect from scratch. But the display page I was custom coding to fit my client’s need. The problem I had was that {mosimage} […]
CSS for a Calendar-Like Date Stamp
May 23rd, 2008The date stamp you see here on the page can be made with following code: .post-date { background: url(images/date_icon_blue.jpg) no-repeat; float: left; height: 40px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 37px; } .post-day { color: #434B4D; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 37px; } .post-month […]
Flash Fade In and Fade Out Effect
May 23rd, 2008It pays for a programmer to learn some photoshop/flash skills … not only you will be more detail-oriented when coding the css layout (hence less chance to drive a designer crazy or be driven crazy by those anal designer comments), but also you can make some quick changes (like cropping off 2 pixels of extra […]
Show/Hide a bunch of elements, without using Prototype.js
May 20th, 2008Today I worked on a simple page. I need to show a few table rows when a button is clicked. Normally I would use Prototype.js but it seemed to be an overkill for the simple I was building. So I decided to just use javascript without any libraries. Here is what I wrote (referenced a […]