Advance Shop By helps you effectively drive your visitors’ attention to your best and most profitable products and boost revenues by arousing, attracting and capturing your prospects’ interest in products that you want them to buy. This extension increases time spent by visitors to your store, at the same time reducing chances of aimless surfing.

How can a single module perform all these functions? You’re right! Advance Shop By is an amalgamation of nifty add-ons that individually perform tasks geared toward a particular online sales promotion tactic, as we shall go on to see. New Arrivals, Most Viewed, Most Sold, Most Reviewed, Most Rated, Most Tagged, Absolute Free, Editors’ Picks, Clearance and Great Offers are the plug-ins that make up the Advance Shop By system. There is a tabbed block usage system for easy placement on your home page. All feature labels appear on product listing pages as well. Moreover, each product that qualifies for highlighting displays an icon that says whether it’s the most sold or a new arrival and so on.

Advance Shop By is a Magento Web Administrator’s delight. It is easy to install, copy and run. It is seamlessly integrated with CMS blocks. Options and sub-modules can be easily and instantly enabled or disabled. Further, it is highly scalable and there is no limit to the number of products that can be sorted or categorized by any sub-module of Advance Shop By.

On the actual Magento web store, Advance Shop By is transparent as a module and gels into the categorized layout of any retail e-store. There is a tabbed layout that sorts products by ten different criteria—New Arrivals, Most Viewed, Most Sold, Most Reviewed, Most Rated, Most Tagged, Absolute Free, Editors’ Picks, Clearance and Great Offers. Navigation choices are displayed on the header, footer and side panels of the home page and landing pages alike. Comprehensive back-end management control enables you to set and calibrate each setting that emphasizes your key products.

Advance Shop By does not just benefit store owners and administrators but also passes on the advantages to shoppers and customers. Visitors to your site get a quick idea of which are the top-selling products, what others are buying and what they’re saying about the products. Their attention is directed to price discounts and clearance offers. Navigation and checkout becomes straightforward. You can get module and all the information from below link.

http://magentocrux.mavenstore.com/advance-shopby-magento-extension-module-plug-ins.html

Here is a detailed breakdown of the sub-modules of MagentoCRUX Advance Shop By…

1. New Arrivals

The New Arrivals extension offers a simplified way to show newly added products. It gives you an easy way to showcase the latest products on your website. There is also an option available whereby you can select the exact duration for which it is displayed.

2. Most Viewed

The Most Viewed plug-in automatically generates the list of your online store’s Highest Views products and displays it. Both the merchant and the customers gather valuable data about the most popular and visited products. All products are displayed in descending order.

3. Most Sold

The Most Sold add-on automatically displays a list of your store’s best selling products, thereby giving you essential data about your most revenue-generating items. All products are displayed in descending order of sale.

4. Most Reviewed

Those products which are talked about and which the customer makes an effort to review are the ones on which you should concentrate. Most Reviewed not only enables you to get this critical business advantage but also provides your customers with the views of other customers and the “in” products of the times.

5. Most Rated

The popular products in your site will be rated by many of your visitors. The Most Rated add-on you an idea of which products are potential best-sellers. Visitors and potential customers will be able to see what items others have rated, what ratings they’ve been given, and make decisions whether to buy or not.

6. Most Tagged

Most Tagged presents you with ideal information on what your customers are saying about your products. Well-liked products will be tagged most and this little add-on gives you the ability to organize these products by order of high tagging rate.

7. Absolute Free

The Absolute Free module works great in conjunction with promotions and offers. Customers’ attention is immediately drawn to those products with Zero Price—in other words, FREE! It is assumed that your Magento store is configured for Zero Price. This also enables the store manager to keep an eye on the success rate of the promotion and how fast the inventory is moving.

8. Editor’s Pick

Editor’s Pick is an indispensable choice for stores selling books, DVDs, movies and offering software downloads among others. The Editors Pick module allows selected display of flagship or vital products by setting a simple attribute in the Magento Admin Panel.

9. Clearance Discount

Clearance Discount displays as an attribute in the Magento Admin Panel. You can set a discount percentage on clearance items and these go on to display on the store at the front-end. What’s more, you can use this attribute as a base to set special prices according to your catalog price rules.

10. Great Offers

The Great Offers extension shows all your discounted items in one place. It also gives you the option to sort your offers according to the extent of the discount. You can be sure that your customers are informed of all the bargains your store has to offer.

Maven Store (http://magentocrux.mavenstore.com) is an initiative of Maven Infosoft to provide specialized e-commerce services, extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, themes, layouts and templates for web shops and covering all aspects of online retail. MagentoCRUX is a subset of Maven Store that caters to web shops built on Magento, the world’s fastest evolving web commerce platform.

Through MagentoCRUX, Maven Store aims to sell useful web application modules that will facilitate product import and insertion, connections to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services with a few basic programming changes. The modular structure of the code will allow web administrators to upgrade their Magento installation to include more features while retaining existing customizations.

Maven Infosoft also assists online retailers in requirement based development, store optimization, SEO and web-store branding.

MagentoCRUX goes straight to the crux of all solutions sought by online businesses, customers and developers alike. It offers a wide range of practically useful add-ons and fresh themes for your Magento website. These will be available for instant download and implementation, wasting no time in installation or configuration. MagentoCRUX boasts of an outstanding range of handy Magento extensions and templates that can never be duplicated by the hordes of me-too template websites.

MagentoCRUX offers rich content already and will constantly be updated with flexible, modular and Internet-transparent extensions and themes created by the powerhouse software development centre at Maven Infosoft. These will be available under different licensing options for single and multiple domain use. The site features FAQs, policies, industry conventions and support pages for ease of use and rapid integration to the benefit of customers and developers. Our aim is to enable you to glean the utmost advantage of major internet technologies and content management systems, which will be translated into business processes and ultimately profits.

MagentoCRUX will also offer expert services for Magento-based website design, development, hosting, installation, configuration, migration, upgrade, support, SEO, news releases, online press rooms, blog marketing, product forums, social media publicity and on-site IT staffing. We have a successful and verifiable track record in each one of these services. We specialize in online store design, development and management using both open-source and proprietary technologies.

MagentoCRUX provides real time support for the Magento. We can assign a skilled programmer or an entire team to development options ranging from single-issue bug fixing to full-fledged online store design. Our team of competent experts can diagnose and fix bugs in your Magento implementation within the hour as well as set up fully-functional web shops in three to six months.

MagentoCRUX helps web retailers optimize their online stores and convert visitors to customers by making effective use of e-commerce technology, reducing page load time, refining content, enhancing layouts, and reaching out to search engines effectively.

The links to our Blog, Twitter and Facebook pages will make it easy for visitors and clients to retrieve the latest content and information as and when it is updated.

We invite you to visit MagentoCRUX (http://magentocrux.mavenstore.com) today!

About Magento Commerce:

Magento is the world’s most evolved e-commerce solution. It runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. From a single installation you can control multiple storefronts, all of which can share common layouts and customer and product information. Magento templates and themes enable you to customize the look and feel of your store for a smooth and effortless shopping experience. You can even optimize your store for mobile phones. Magento extensions enable you to connect to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services. Modular code enables you to upgrade your Magento installation for more features while retaining your existing customizations.

About Maven Infosoft:

Maven Infosoft is an established IT solutions company celebrating its 6th anniversary this year. We have quickly built a reputation for innovation, flexibility and service. MagentoCRUX is the result of the far-reaching efforts of experienced professionals in open-source design and development technology.

We have an extensive project record in software products, application development, web design, e-commerce and a range of IT services. We are the first choice in European markets for outsourcing web-based application development using Microsoft and LAMP technologies.

We have a hand-picked team of developers skilled in design, programming and testing. All projects are managed and executed to perfection at each stage of the software life cycle by a professional Project Management Office. Knowledgeable analysts and specialists work round the clock with cultural coordinators to ensure success in offshore/on-site projects. We have a zero down-time infrastructure in our development centre in Ahmedabad, India.

About Onforce:

OnForce provides access to a trusted national network of onsite service providers connecting service demand with local supply through an online marketplace — easily, efficiently and profitably within America and Canada. OnForce gives instant access to over 12,000 highly qualified service professionals who work in a number of technology categories, including computers, printers, networking, VoIP, point of sale and consumer electronics nationwide. They conduct break-fix, repair, training, parts swap and install services throughout the US and Canada.

The OnForce marketplace offers rollout, installations, repairs, training and other onsite support services in a wide range of categories, including Consumer Electronics – Audio, Home Theater, Network / Server, Projector, Security, Telephone / Intercom, Information Technology – Network, PC Desktop, PC Laptop, Point of Sale, Software and many more

OnForce offers a new model for managing  services business while saving costs and growing revenue, called it Variable Demand Management.

For more information please visit www.onforce.com.

About Magento:

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. You can Control every facet of your store, from merchandising to promotions and more. Due to its rich functionality, Magento is widely used for the ecommerce websites. There is no credit check functionality in Magento ecommence.

About OnForce Buyer Magento module:

Magento team at OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com has developed Magento module/extension for OnForce Buyer integration.

Any OnForce Buyer can now use Magento to sell all OnForce products and services.

All products of Magento based store can be integrate with the OnForce services from Admin section.

When user purchases any products from Magento based store, and generates order, the order will be generate on the OnForce.

All the shipping information from the OnFoce will be available in Magento checkout process.

Customers of Magento based store can view their order and check the current status of order from OnForce.

If you are OnForce Buyer and planning to open online store, this extension helps you to use super rich functionality of the Magento and Integration with the OnForce.

In summary, this module/extension creates order to Onforce from Buyer’s Magento website, getting all products’ information from Onforce, getting shipping information from Onforce, updating the order status from Onforce.

If you are OnForce Buyer and yet not have any online store or want to upgrade existing store with Magento, please drop an email on info@offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com

About OTP Bank Hungary:

OTP Bank Plc. is the largest bank among Hungarian credit institutions and the dominant player in each segment of the Hungarian banking market at the same time. Therefore, OTP Bank is the most significant member of the OTP Group. OPT bank card Internet Payment Interface provides a communication, transaction controlling and feedback interface required for executing banking transactions for WebShops or WebShop-like operating other services.

For more information please visit www.otpbank.hu.

About Magento:

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. You can Control every facet of your store, from merchandising to promotions and more. Due to its rich functionality, Magento is widely used for the ecommerce websites. There is no standard payment integration feature for the Iveri in Magento ecommence.

About OTP Bank payment gateway module for Magento:

There is no OTP Bank Hungarian Payment module with the standard Magento solution. OPT bank card Internet Payment Magento module Interface provides a communication, transaction controlling and feedback interface required for executing banking transactions for any Magento store.

This module enables all the OPT bank card Internet Payment Interface. Administrator can configure the this module with all settings. All the credentials will be stored in the Admin section. Once the module is enabled from Magento admin, the front store will enable payment interface with OTP bank. All the order information will forward to OTP bank and upon confirmation of the payment, the order transaction on Magento store gets the status of the payment.

Please drop an email at info@offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com for more information about OTP bank payment module with Magento.

About CIB Bank Hungary:

CIB Bank has become a universal bank, and has gained an influential role in the Hungarian financial market, the new group, with its cca. 20% market share is the largest bank group of Italy, it is among the top banks of the European financial market. CIB Bank and Inter-Europa Bank have also joined their forces, which was resulted in a branch network of almost 140 units, multiple prize-winner electronic channels, and many renewed products and services. CIB bank card Internet Payment Interface provides a communication, transaction controlling and feedback interface required for executing banking transactions for WebShops or WebShop-like operating other services.

For more information please visit www.cib.hu

About Magento:

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. You can Control every facet of your store, from merchandising to promotions and more. Due to its rich functionality, Magento is widely used for the ecommerce websites. There is no standard payment integration feature for the Iveri in Magento ecommence.

AboutCIB Bank payment gateway module for Magento:

There is no CIB Bank Hungarian Payment module with the standard Magento solution. CIB bank card Internet Payment Magento module Interface provides a communication, transaction controlling and feedback interface required for executing banking transactions for any Magento store.

This module enables all the CIB bank card Internet Payment Interface. Administrator can configure the this module with all settings. All the credentials will be stored in the Admin section. Once the module is enabled from Magento admin, the front store will enable payment interface with CIB bank. All the order information will forward to CIB bank and upon confirmation of the payment, the order transaction on Magento store gets the status of the payment.

Please drop an email at info@offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com for more information about CIB bank payment module with Magento.

Magento team at OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com has developed an Magento module for Footer Links.

This Footer links module for Magento contains the following items,

(1) All the categories in the tree structure with Category images.

(2) Top 12 searched performed on Magento Store,

(3) All static links in structured way, as defined in Admin section.

By Default this More links section remains hide in the footer. Once user click on more links it will display all the above links in the footer sections.

All the category links contains subcategories, clicling on + sign it will show all subcategories under the root Category.

Click on image to see Full image.

More links are by default hidden. Once user click on more links, it will display all links as per the following image.

Trick to speed up Eclipse

Eclipse is one of the largest application in size which used for PHP development. Because of its large size and running through JVM (Java Virtual Machine), this application is very much slow in execution. Here are few configurations to be made to speed up Eclipse execution.

A file eclipse.ini is found under the directory from where eclipse is running. The following changes should be made in this file:

1. Find the lines containing -Xms40m and -Xmx256m and replace them with -Xms128m and -Xmx384m respectively.
2. Add the following lines at the end of the file

-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_11\bin\client\jvm.dll
-Xss2m
-XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=10
-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=70
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing
-XX:CompileThreshold=5
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote

NOTE: The path C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_11\bin\client\jvm.dll may differ according to JRE installation on your computer. Please find the correct path of jvm.dll file and put it accordingly.

Eclipse PDT 2.0 which is based on Eclipse 3.4 which is comparatively faster than Eclipse 3.3 or older.

Zend Studio which is also Eclipse PDT based IDE and provides similar functionality as Eclipse PDT.

But the latest version of Zend Studio (Version 6.1.2) which is still based Eclipse (Version 3.3). So it is recommended to use Eclipse PDT instead of Zend Studio for better performance until next version of Zend Studio is not released.

Magento team at OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com has developed an Magento module for Google XML sitemap spilt.

Default module of Magento creates only one XML Sitemap file. Google does not accept the file more than 10 MB or 50000 links. So If there large Magento shop with products more than 50000, It requires to spilt the sitemap after every 50000 links or size more than 10 MB.

The Magento extension Google XML Sitemap Split Module developed by OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.Com fulfills this requirement.

In the configuration Admin can specify both, the size of the XML file and Links in XML file to be splitted. Whatever the confitions fulfills first, this module will create new sitemap XML file. It will repeat this process till all the links processed.

Admin will be able to see all the generated XML files in the TXT file in the XML SiteMap module.

Everytime when Admin click on Generate the XML file, It will delete all previous XML files and recreates all new files.

Please refere the following screens to understand Module functionality perfectly well.

SiteMap Configuration:

System – Configuration – Google Sitemap

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Adding Sitemap:

Catalog – Google Sitemap

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Generate Google SitemMap:

Catalog – Google Sitemap

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Click on Generate Link to generate the Google XML siteamap.

Once XML sitemaps generate, Click on index.txt file to list all generated XML files.

Working with Selenium-Grid

1. Download selenium Grid from
http://seleniumhq.org/download/
And extract files any location. Mostly in C:\selenium

2. Install latest jre from

http://java.sun.com/

3. Download ant from

http://ant.apache.org/
Extract files in C:\Ant.

- Set environment variable ANT_HOME as
- Go to the properties menu of MyComputer
- Go to the advance menu and click on ‘Environment Variable’
- Click on new and Enter value ‘ANT_HOME’ variable with your folder value where you have installed Ant.
- Now set the path variable as
Edit value and add location of your ant\bin folder

4. Now go to the selenium-grid folder from command prompt and launch-hub as follow:

ant launch-hub

Hub will start on port no 4444 as follow:

5. Now start remote server from new terminal from same selenium-grid folder as follow

ant launch-remote-control

It will start as follow:

6. Now in browser go to the hub location by

http://localhost:4444/console

It will look like

7. To start more remote server enter
ant -Dport=5556 launch-remote-control
ant -Dport=5557 launch-remote-control
ant -Dport=5558 launch-remote-control

8. Now the hub on browser will show as

Available Remote Controls
Host Port Environment
localhost 5555 *firefox
localhost 5556 *firefox
localhost 5557 *firefox
localhost 5558 *firefox

Note: The total run time is directly proportional to the number of available remote controls. So don’t start more controls if not necessary.

9. Run the hub

This setup illustrates that you can run the hub and the remote controls on arbitrary machines. When you do so though, you need to provide a lot more information when launching a remote control. You need to launch it with:
ant -Dport=<port> -Dhost=<hostname> -DhubURL=<hub url> launch-remote-control
Where:

port Port that the remote control will be listening at. Must be unique on the machine the remote control runs on. hostname Hostname or IP address of the machine the remote control runs on. Must be visible from the Hub machine. Note: this information could be inferred as it is always referring to the machine the remote control runs on. It might not be required in future versions of the Selenium Grid. hub url Which hub the remote control should register/unregister to. If the hub is running on hostname my.hub.com, this URL will be http://my.hub.com:4444

10. Now to run a test open new cmd prompt and go the test folder.
phpunit Example

11. This will start the test.

Working with Selenium-IDE | Running Functional Tests | Runnig PHP Unit Tests

Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.

Selenium IDE is not only recording tool: it is a complete IDE. You can choose to use its recording capability, or you may edit your scripts by hand. With auto-complete support and the ability to move commands around quickly, Selenium IDE is the ideal environment for creating Selenium tests no matter what style of tests you prefer.

1. Download selenium IDE from
http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/download.jsp

This will directly add IDE as fire-fox add-ons.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2079
2. Start Firefox and then Start Selenium IDE: Tools->Selenium IDE.

You will see the following window.

3. Enter base url or open the site on which you want to perform functional testing.
IDE will directly open in play mode with the entry of base url as below. Here we want to perform testing on http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/

4. After starting the IDE now simply browse the site. It  makes entry in the table as below

Now the entire test is like

Now stop recording by pressing red button.

In html format it looks like

We can export this file in any format we want as

In PHP format it looks as

5. Now to run the recorded test open new browser and press the green – play button

6. The test will run as follow

7. If there will be any error then that test will be highlighted by red line as

8. If you are on a slow internet connection than it may help to slow the test speed.

9. You can save the test case in php as follow..

Required changes in the exported PHP file is as follow

a. Change the class name same as stored file name as default class name will be “Example”.
b. Enter the web-site name in the
$this->setBrowserUrl(“http://change-this-to-the-site-you-are-testing/“);
Field.
c. Available browser options are
*iexplore
*konqueror
*firefox
*mock
*pifirefox
*piiexplore
*chrome
*safari
*opera
*iehta
*custom
That is write as follow
$this->setBrowser(“*chrome”);
(When we define browser as chrome then no need to get security certificate but in case of firefox or iexplore we need to take certificate. )

10. Downloading and installing Selenium RC
Selenium RC is a Java based command line server that starts browsers and runs commands you pass from your tests.

a. First make sure you have a Java runtime installed on your machine.
Otherwise download it from
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/otherFeatures/jre_install.html
Test the version of JRE by entering command on command line as –
java -version
b. Download Selenium RC from http://selenium-rc.seleniumhq.org/download.html.
c. After extracting the files from the archive copy the ‘selenium-server.jar’ file to any directory you feel appropriate.
d. Start the Selenium RC server from the command-line by issuing the following command:
java -jar selenium-server.jar
This will start the server on port 4444.
e. Now the server is ready to accept test commands from your PHP script. Make sure you keep this server running till you finish testing.

11. Changes in selenium-server.jar file requires to run in Firefox is as below:

a. Open selenium-server.jar using winrar
b. locate 2 dirs: customProfileDirCUSTFFCHROME and customProfileDirCUSTFF
c. recursively explore each of those dirs, and when you find a file called install.rdf drag it to some temp location, and edit the following line:
<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>
change it to:
<em:maxVersion>4.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>
d. drag the install.rdf back into the archive and overwrite the old one.
e. do this for all the install.rdf files in those 2 dirs.

12. Installing PHPUnit
a. An easy way to install PHPUnit is to use the PEAR installer. The PEAR channel (pear.phpunit.de) is used to distribute PHPUnit so make sure that it is registered with your local PEAR environment:
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
After the channel is registered install PHPUnit:
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
Actual testing

Now that PHPUnit is installed and the Selenium RC server is up and running, it’s time to run our test we saved before in our ‘Example.php’ file. Type the following on your command-line:
phpunit Example

13. This will start the test. The PHPUnit Selenium driver will execute each test command from your file and send it to the Selenium server, which does the job of launching the appropriate browser, opening web pages, and performing various specified actions; and closing the browser after the test completes.

This will open new browser as

After successful execution the output will be as

Note: All Images will coming soon.