I am new to magento. When I install another language. Following this tutorial.
But the issue is it creates two stores or store views. I don't want to create two stores I just need two languages. That's it.
Help!
Languages are set at the store level in Magento. You will need to create two stores. As long as you don't need to set anything else at the store level, continue setting configuration and catalog data at the global or website levels.
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In working with Magento's EAV system, I have developed a PHP-based tool which will assemble the tables' data back into a tabular format as well as identify "holes" in the attributes between or across products. It works with both the product and category system, and allows determining if an attribute has NOT been inserted into a particular product, or if data is consistent across stores, or stores which are inconsistent - things that are not easy through normal SQL queries and which might be tough to program with Magento native coding.
I plan to post a link to this via github and here when complete.
My question is, are there other platforms or system which make use of EAV? I would like to make my application as system-agnostic as possible. Thanks.
we have 250k products and we want to create more than 200 different site(multi site) all stores will have same products but different domain and different design. Magento multi site function is good for us but you need to match every product and every site so that means 50m(min) record for tables like "catalog_product_website"(and some other tables) and also flat catalog and indexing will be a real problem.
if we use store and store view than userbase will be same and also flat catalog will be problem.
So my question, is there any way to make all these stores work like single store? Or is there any way to make it work with nice performance?
The short answer is no.
While Magento is built for multi-site applications, I don't think it's suited to running 200+ stores with 250,000 products.
At that size, I'd say contact Magento regarding Magento Enterprise to see what they have to say. Oh, and be prepared to pay the $15,000/Server/Year price.
I'm having to convert an existing e-commerce site with 50k plus products to a magento site. Everywhere I look the advice is to use the flag catalog for this amount of products.
My question is, once enabled do new products have to be created using the old EAV tables or can I just import and update new products in the newly created flat catalog?
Thanks for any advice, I'm not looking forward to this transation at all, lol. ;)
Think of Flat Catalog as a cache of the EAV structure. It does not replace the EAV system it simply creates a "flattened" or simplified version of the data store in EAV tables.
The EAV system is the most flexible way to store data, allowing any number of user or system variables without changes to the table structure. The down side is this system requires multiple and or recursive queries, this is slow and memory intensive. This is where the flat catalog comes in... The following is still quite accurate (even though it was written when flat catalog was first introduced) and quite clear: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/37247/#t122010
You will need to optimise memory usage within PHP and MySQL to enable rebuilding of flat catalog for a site with a large number of products.
I don't know what version of Magento your using, but until 1.4 you need to put it into the EAV structure if you have to manage your products using backoffice.
The creation of the flat_ tables are automatic, it's part of the indexing process (which can be very long for this amount of products)
edit: I don't know for version after 1.4
I want to move an entire catalog from one magento store to another store on another server. I realize I can import via csv, but I also want to maintain product relationships, grouped product relationship, config product relationships and images. The only way I can think to do this is to write my own script using the Magento API. Is there another more straight forward way of doing this?
I just found this extension, we'll see if it does the job:
http://www.commerceextensions.com/magento-product-import-export.html
Export the DB directly and you would retain all this information. This would also be significantly faster for large sets of objects.
If that feels too dirty, your API solution will contain all the data, but will take longer to import/export.
I'm looking to save some data in the Magento database without hassling with creating a new EAV object (or even a DB table if I can avoid it). Is there any place that you all know about that Magento will let you store serialized data?
If it matters, the data is a serialized set of SKUs that I need to retrieve. I know that I could create a new model, or possibly even create an attribute as a flag on each product, but those are both really overkill for my purposes.
Thanks,
Joe
First, it's possible to setup a simple, non-EAV model with Magento. You still need to do some configuration and setup, but it's much less complicated than a full on EAV store.
Second, if you're storing information specific to users you can throw it in a session object. I can't recall the syntax right now (will update later), but search through your codebsae for ::getModel followed by the phrase "session".
Third, you still have access to all the old PHP tools you'd normally have. Writing/reading out of a file or memcached space (or bringing in a third party Model library) is another option.
If you just want to run some database queries directly then you can do so with the underlying Zend Db abstractions.