Comments on: Easy E-Commerce With Magento

By: WS

WS — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:01:12 +0000

Great video! But…
I downloaded & installed WAMP. I unzipped and added the magento files in the localhost folder wamp/www/magento so far so so good. But when I try to access magento in WAMP (http://localhost/magento/) I get this error message:

Fatal error: Method Varien_Object::__tostring() cannot take arguments in C:\wamp\www\magento\lib\Varien\Object.php on line 488

which is this:
public function __toString(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=’,')
{
$arrData = $this->toArray($arrAttributes);
return implode($valueSeparator, $arrData);
}

Is the problem that something is incompatible with the 5.3 version of PHP?
What do I do now?
Thank you for any help.

By: shakti

shakti — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:17:29 +0000

Thanks man ….All others forget to tell the last step to configure varien.php file
…..u don’t

By: hits

hits — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:59:46 +0000

thanku..

By: ali

ali — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:11:38 +0000

thanks great work

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:59:14 +0000

I’ve been using Prestashop for a month now and find it VERY easy to manage.

The bad news is that it still has no a good base of users, so the help in the forum arrives late.. or never.

There are not much templates (free or pay) to choose from.

Try Prestashop and you will find that in less than an hour you can setup a pretty descent store.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:06:36 +0000

Does anyone have any examples of live websites which are using Magento for their eCommerce? I would like to see how the speed compares to other sites from an end-user perspective.

From a back-end perspective, it seems to suck badly – surely it can’t be normal for saving a product to take 4 minutes when I’m running on my localhost!

By: Jasdeep

Jasdeep — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:36:13 +0000

how can we do that?
Setup 3 stores using one category. Stores will be 1) Canada, 2) USA, and 3) UK.
- Goal is to use same inventory for all 3 stores from the backend and have ability to adjust prices depending on the store itself.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:58:57 +0000

It’s certainly not for the novice. I can’t even get a product to display on the home page….

Install = easy
Adding Products =Easy
Speed seems fine to me on a $20 a month Media Temple hosting account. If you can’t afford $20 a month why are you running a store?

Still… might just go back to using zen cart.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:57:26 +0000

I’ve definitely expired the steep learning curve and I come from a serious J2EE background. HOWEVER I can absolutely recommend Magento as it does have amazing power and flexibility.

On decent hardware (e.g. virtual server on dreamhost), the performance is more than acceptable.

The ability to host multiple sites and skins on top of a single codebase and database is killer, you will definitely appreciate this if your client grows and adds other languages or other brands…

By: cookie moster

cookie moster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:55:46 +0000

Great Tutorial