Rapid Prototyping for Custom Magento Extensions

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:55:44 +0000

I’ve finally had enough of dreading to write all the configuration for each custom module, and invested a couple of hours into this:

http://unirgy.com/wiki/uscaffold

Feedback is welcome as always!

Adding your extension version to admin pages

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:59:44 +0000

So you’d like users of your extension to know which version it is, so you can give them support, without asking them to open extension files?

In your helper add this method:


public function addAdminhtmlVersion($module)
{
    $layout = Mage::app()->getLayout();
    $version = (string)Mage::getConfig()
        ->getNode("modules/{$module}/version");

    $layout->getBlock('before_body_end')->append(
        $layout->createBlock('core/text')->setText('



        ')
    );

    return $this;
}

And in your controller action, add the method call:


// ADD:
Mage::helper('yourhelper')->addAdminhtmlVersion('Your_Module');
// BEFORE:
$this->renderLayout();

Now on admin pages that were introduced by your module it will show “Your_Module ver. 1.2.3″ right above the Magento version.

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Rapid Prototyping for Custom Magento Extensions

Adding your extension version to admin pages