Add “increment field” functionality to Magento’s quantity fields

Magento Themes are Freely available in market we all need fresh looking Magento theme but we don't have idea about what to do with the downloaded Magento theme(Specially Non Programmers) this post will let you know what basic steps to be follow to install after downloading the them. 


The Basic Steps To Follow For Installation Of Downloaded Magento Theme:

   1. Download the theme from any online resource.

   2. Extract the zipped theme.
 
   3. Open your FTP, Select the SKIN folder and copy it under Your_Magento_Installation /skin/frontend/default/, so it turns into Your_Magento_Installation/skin/frontend/default/ new_theme.
 
   4. Login to your Magento store admin panel to pick up the new theme for the layout.
 
   5. Some times Magento cache creates sorts of issues. In order to escape from the issues you need to disable the cache for that particular time. (To enable or disable the cache, goto System > Cache Management).
 
   6. Carrying on with the installation steps, now click on Systems>Configuration and Select the "Design" tab.
 
   7. Type the name of your copied theme in-front of skin input box and click on "Save Config" tab.  

After Following the given steps just visit your e-commerce site you will sure get the same theme what you just install hope this post will help you in Magento ecommerce theme setup

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Simple Example to Run Magento Code Outside of Magento

This post must help every magento developer because this post is realated about to run Magento code outside of Magento. All you need is to have access to Magento’s ‘app/Mage.php‘ file.

This code will help you in several ways

     * Integration with 3rd party items – shared sessions, or just shared themes

     * Ajax calls – although not the preferred solutions for Ajax calls, it is a quick and easy one

This code can help you to get started with

Integration:

         -You might want to integrate Wordpress and steal the navigation from Magento, for instance.

         -You might want to share sessions and users between your CMS and Magento (and share databases).



Ajax:

       -You build your block and template (and any other needed objects) as usual and output them via this code.

Have A look at The Code

This post will inform you on how to run Magento code outside of Magento. All you need is to have access to Magento’s ‘app/Mage.php‘ file.
 
We can see in this block of code that we are grabbing the custom block ‘catalog/product_ajax‘.

This is simply a block that grabs a product collection. In this case, we are able to set the category id to 3.

This block is then setting the .phtml template to ‘ajaxevents.phtml‘ and rendering the view. You hopefully can see how this would be useful for Ajax calls.

Other code that might help you along your way:
From php architect’s book (might be outdated!!! We haven’t tested this particular code):

This code will grab cart information and don't forgive this code does not start session

Code with some interested stuff:

Enjoy Hope it is working

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