magento Default store view not working in front end - magento

This question is the duplicate of this one. None answer this question so far.
I am running a magento 1.9.1.0. And I have two stores, One is English and other one is Arabic.
My default store view is English in system --> manage stores. But in
the front end, arabic page is loading by default.
Why is it so? Any one can please help me with this?

You have set the locale in default configuration scope
admin > system > configuration > General > Locale Option > Locale

Check your language.phtml
If you are using flags instead of dropdown make sure you define the default language.
by using <?php if ($_lang->getCode() != 'default'): ?>
refer to complete code below
<?php if(count($this->getStores())>1): ?>
<div class="form-language">
<div class="langs-wrapper">
<?php foreach ($this->getStores() as $_lang): ?>
<?php if ($_lang->getCode() != 'default'): ?>
<?php $selected = $_lang->getId() == $this->getCurrentStoreId() ?>
<a class="lang-flag<?php $selected && print ' selected' ?>" href="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl() ?>">
<img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/flags/' . $_lang->getCode() . '.png');?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?>" height="16" width="24">
</a>
<?php endif;?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endif;?>

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Dynamic Magento Top-Level Category Pages

I'm redesigning a client's top-level category pages and I would like to future-proof the design by making it dynamic. To further clarify, I want it so whenever the client adds, edits or removes a category below the current level, it would reflect that on the frontend without the need of editing code.
Now, I have come across some blog posts on the topic and even a Stack forum post:
http://www.templatemonster.com/help/magento-listing-sub-categories-on-a-category-page.html
how to display thumbnail from category using getThumbnailUrl() in Magento
However, these are both handling it differently. The Stack post also lead me to:
http://www.douglasradburn.co.uk/getting-category-thumbnail-images-with-magento/
Which I found out I needed to add the functionality for pulling the Thumbnail Image (way to go Magento). BUT, this is what I need! The end goal here is to use the Thumbnail Image on the backend of the Category, NOT the Image. We're using the Image elsewhere, as intended. I also would like to be able to pull in the category description from the backend to the frontend for the purpose of adding some extra information such as links, a true description, etc.
If there anyone who can help me? I went through the above examples and links and still, the Thumbnail images were not pulling to the frontend and overall, I'm just getting some weird behaviour. Any tips would be appreciated as I research this further myself.
Thank you!
Please Try below code. I have implemented the same with this
<?php $category_path = Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA)."catalog/category/"; ?>
<?php if (!Mage::registry('current_category')) return ?>
<?php $_categories = $this->getCurrentChildCategories() ?>
<?php $_count = is_array($_categories)?count($_categories):$_categories->count(); ?>
<?php if($_count): ?>
<div class="static-page-listing static-page-listing1">
<ul class="products-grid">
<?php $num = 0; ?>
<?php foreach ($_categories as $_category): ?>
<?php if($_category->getIsActive()):
$num++;
$selImage = "SELECT value FROM catalog_category_entity_varchar WHERE attribute_id = '126' AND entity_id = '".$_category->getId()."'";
$catImage = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_read')->fetchOne($selImage);
if(!$catImage) $catImage = "no_image.jpg"; ?>
<li class="category-item <?php if($num%2==0) echo 'item-right'?>">
<a href="<?php echo $this->getCategoryUrl($_category) ?>">
<div style="float:left; width:100%;">
<img src="<?php echo $category_path.$catImage?>">
</div>
<div>
<h3><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?></h3>
<h6 style = "color:red;">VIEW ALL</h6>
</div>
</a>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
NEW UPDATE:
The below code works:
<?php echo $cur_category->getDescription(); ?>
However, you need to be sure to check your Scopes! Not realizing my individual Store Scopes were not checked off to follow the "All Scopes" default, I fixed that and the above code worked for me when added to the "DESCRIPTION" area!
Thanks Stack!
PREVIOUS UPDATE:
I now have code working that I found online, it involved me adding a function to pull the category thumbnail image. It works! Here is the mark-up for the template:
<div class="category-products">
<ul class="products-grid">
<?php
$_categories=$this->getCurrentChildCategories();
if($_categories->count()):
$categorycount = 0;
foreach ($_categories as $_category):
if($_category->getIsActive()):
$cur_category=Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
$layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
$layer->setCurrentCategory($cur_category);
$catName = $this->getCurrentCategory()->getName();
if ($categorycount == 0){
$class = "first";
}
elseif ($categorycount == 3){
$class = "last";
}
else{
$class = "";
}
?>
<li class="item <?=$class?>">
<a href="<?php echo $cur_category->getURL() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($cur_category->getName()) ?>">
<img src="<?php echo $cur_category->getThumbnailUrl() ?>" width="100" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($cur_category->getName()) ?>" />
</a>
<h2>
<a href="<?php echo $cur_category->getURL() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($cur_category->getName()) ?>">
<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($cur_category->getName()) ?>
</a>
</h2>
<p>
DESCRIPTION
</p>
</li>
<?php
endif;
if($categorycount == 3){
$categorycount = 0;
echo "</ul>\n\n<ul class=\"products-grid\">";
}
else{
$categorycount++;
}
endforeach;
endif;
?>
</ul>
Now, where you see "DESCRIPTION," I would like to pull the category description data from the backend and have it output there. Basically, allowing dynamic creation/revision of top-level category pages.
How can I pull the description though? I'm not an expert in Magento, maybe I'm missing something basic but I can't get it working.
Thank you!

Jooma K2 show user description in comments

I really need help this time - Joomla 2.5 and latest K2.
I'm using the default K2 comment system and I want to show the "Description" field for every commenter on that page.
So far I have this code:
$thisUserdata =& JFactory::getUser($comment->userID);
echo $thisUserdata->profile->description;
But this shows the description for the author of the page only.
If I log in with another account, it'll also show my own Description as long as I'm logged in.
All the coding I'm doing is in /components/com_k2/templates/default/item.php
The whole code for comments looks like this:
<?php if($this->item->numOfComments>0 && $this->item->params->get('itemComments') && ($this->item->params->get('comments') == '1' || ($this->item->params->get('comments') == '2'))): ?>
<!-- Item user comments -->
<ul>
<?php foreach ($this->item->comments as $key=>$comment): ?>
<li class="<?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; echo (!$this->item->created_by_alias && $comment->userID==$this->item->created_by) ? " author-comment" : ""; echo($comment->published) ? '':' unpublishedComment'; ?>">
<div class="avatar">
<?php if($comment->userImage): ?>
<a href="<?php echo JFilterOutput::cleanText($comment->userLink); ?>" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
<img src="<?php echo $comment->userImage; ?>" alt="<?php echo JFilterOutput::cleanText($comment->userName); ?>" width="<?php echo $this->item->params->get('commenterImgWidth'); ?>" />
</a>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div class="inner">
<div class="author">
<?php if(!empty($comment->userLink)): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $comment->userLink; ?>" title="View <?php echo $comment->userName; ?> profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
<?php echo $comment->userName; ?>
</a>
<?php else: ?>
<a rel="nofollow"><?php echo $comment->userName; ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div class="date">
 <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $comment->commentDate, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_COM_MARIO')); ?>
</div>
<p><?php echo $comment->commentText; ?>
<?php
// USER DESCRIPTION
$thisUserdata =& JFactory::getUser($comment->userID);
echo $thisUserdata->profile->description;
?>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<div class="itemCommentsPagination">
<?php echo $this->pagination->getPagesLinks(); ?>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if($this->item->params->get('commentsFormPosition')=='below' && $this->item->params->get('itemComments') && !JRequest::getInt('print') && ($this->item->params->get('comments') == '1' || ($this->item->params->get('comments') == '2' && K2HelperPermissions::canAddComment($this->item->catid)))): ?>
<!-- Item comments form -->
<div class="itemCommentsForm">
<?php echo $this->loadTemplate('comments_form'); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
With Joomla 2.5 you can use that to get basic user information, but you want to use the following to get the "description" or "about me" content of the commenting user..
$commentUser = JUserHelper::getProfile($comment->userID);
print_r($commentUser);
$about_me = $commentUser->profile['aboutme'];
echo $about_me;
Here is the link as well, this might help if you would like to do other things with the JUserHelper..
http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Platform/User/JUserHelper.html#getProfile
EDIT: Make sure the plugin "User - Profile" is enabled or this will not work.

magento show tab if content exists

i'm using the tab.phtml from the modern theme to create product tabs, however i've switched this to using jquery and jquery-ui as i needed to link to a tab directly.
So in a nut shell the code is pretty much the same as the one found in the modern theme.
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<?php foreach ($this->getTabs() as $_index => $_tab): ?>
<?php if($this->getChildHtml($_tab['alias'])): ?>
<li class="<?php echo !$_index?' active first':(($_index==count($this->getTabs())-1)?' last':'')?>"><?php echo $_tab['title']?></li>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<div class="clearer"></div>
<?php foreach ($this->getTabs() as $_index => $_tab): ?>
<?php if($this->getChildHtml($_tab['alias'])): ?>
<div class="product-tabs-content" id="<?php echo $_tab['alias'] ?>"><?php echo $this->getChildHtml($_tab['alias']) ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
and i'm adding the custom tabs using the same method under catalog.xml:
<action method="addTab" translate="title" module="catalog"><alias>how-to-use</alias><title>How to Use</title><block>catalog/product_view</block><template>catalog/product/view/how-to-use.phtml</template></action>
however i've noticed that the tab 'upsells' only appears when there are upsell products assigned. I'm wanting to use this same functionality to display a custom product attribute if there is content to display.
So what i'm asking is how does the upsell detect that there are no products assigned so no tab is displayed so i can do this for my custom tab. my custom tab phtml file looks like this:
<?php $_howtouse = $this->getProduct()->getHowToUse(); ?>
<?php if ($_howtouse): ?>
<div class="std">
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->productAttribute($this->getProduct(), $_howtouse, 'howtouse') ?>
</div>
any help greaty received thanks :)
The first line of code in upsell.phtml controls the appearance:
<?php if(count($this->getItemCollection()->getItems())): ?>
I am speculating your code is simply evaluating to true and always showing that section. What is your output from $this->getProduct()->getHowToUse() ?
It turned out i had 1 line above my:
<?php $_howtouse = $this->getProduct()->getHowToUse(); ?>
which meant it registered as there being some content all be it white space.
got rid of the whitespace it now works.

Extrafields Visibility. K2 Extension

So i have this code changed in ../html/com_k2/template/default/item.php:
<?php if($this->item->params->get('itemExtraFields') && count($this->item->extra_fields)): ?>
<!-- Item extra fields -->
<div class="itemExtraFields">
<h3><?php echo JText::_('Additional Info:'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField):?>
<?php $user =& JFactory::getUser(); ?>
<?php if($extraField->name == "Price" && $user->get('Guest') ==1): ?>
<?php else: ?>
<li class="<?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?> type<?php echo ucfirst($extraField->type); ?> group<?php echo $extraField->group; ?>">
<span class="itemExtraFieldsLabel"><?php echo $extraField->name; ?>:</span>
<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo ($extraField->type=='date')?JHTML::_('date', $extraField->value, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC')):$extraField->value; ?></span>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
What I'm trying to achieve is to hide the extrafield on Guest Viewer on the front-page, and that extrafield will only be visible to certain User groups. I already tried changing this line three times:
name == "Price" && $user->get('Guest')==1): ?>
name == "itemExtraFields" &&$user->get('Guest')
==1): ?>
name == "itemExtraFieldsValue"
&&$user->get('Guest') ==1): ?>
(I named my custom field as Price)
So i don't know if I'm missing something on the code or i got the itemFields name wrong. Any help would be appreciated a ton. I already asked in the k2 forum and joomla forum but no one is answering.
Try this code. It is working fine.
<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField):?>
<?php if($extraField->name === "Price" && $this->user->guest){}
else{ ?>
<li class="<?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?> type<?php echo ucfirst($extraField->type); ?> group<?php echo $extraField->group; ?>">
<span class="itemExtraFieldsLabel"><?php echo $extraField->name; ?>:</span>
<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo $extraField->value; ?></span>
</li>
<?php }?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
I just added a strict comparison to the name and brackets for the if else condition. Also altered the way of checking guest user.

how to write a custom panel displaying categories in magento

I have a category called "Top Products". I wish to display this in a panel on my home page. What is the best way to do this in magento.
** edit **
Thanks sdek, i now have the following. In Home Page / Design.
<block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="13" template="catalog/product/featured.phtml"/>
And it is displaying products. However i have the following issues.
- it's not displaying products from category_id 13, It seems like this value is not being passed thru
- it's only display 2 products. I wish to display all.
featured.phtml
<?php
$_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
?>
<?php if(!$_productCollection->count()): ?>
<p class="note-msg"><?php echo $this->__('There are no products matching the selection.') ?></p>
<?php else: ?>
<h2>Featured Products </h2>
<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->count() ?>
<?php $_columnCount = $this->getColumnCount(); ?>
<?php $i=0; foreach ($_productCollection as $_product): ?>
<?php if ($i++%$_columnCount==0): ?>
<ul class="product-grid">
<?php endif ?>
<li class="<?php if(($i-1)%$_columnCount==0): ?> first<?php else: ?> last<?php endif; ?>">
<a class="product-image" href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" >
<img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'thumbnail')->resize(85); ?>" class="product-img" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" style="padding-bottom:20px; margin-bottom:20px;" />
</a>
<p><strong><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName(), 'name') ?></strong>
<?php echo $_product->getShortDescription(); ?></p>
<?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_product, true) ?>
More details
</li>
<?php if ($i%$_columnCount==0 || $i==$_collectionSize): ?>
</ul>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif; ?
I wouldn't even use a category but this extension instead:
Featured Products
The Featured Products extension mentioned by clockworkgeek is a good idea. But if you don't like that option the easiest thing to do is to add this in your home page cms
{{block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="YOUR_CAT_ID" template="catalog/product/YOUR_MODIFIED_COPY_OF_LIST.phtml"}}
And then make a copy of app/design/frontend///template/catalog/product/list.phtml (I refered to it above as YOUR_MODIFIED_COPY_OF_LIST.phtml) and remove the two lines that say
<?php echo $this->getToolbarHtml() ?>
and remove the entire if-block that outputs the "list mode"... basically the if statement
<?php // List mode ?>
<?php if($this->getMode()!='grid'): ?>
and you should only have the "grid mode" code in there.

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