08/27/2014 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Magento: Add fields to the Admin Backend

Today I had a task at work that first sounded rather easy: Add a field to the Admin backend, namely System->Config->Catalog where the user could later insert some SKUs to control which products are shown on the home page. The first resources I found on how to edit the Backend where all suggesting to create a Module and then create a settings page. Not only was this rather complex it was also way too “over engineered” for a simple thing like a text field.

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05/27/2014 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Magento: get and set variables in config.xml

The other day I had a kind of easy problem in Magento that still took me quite some time to solve. In the shop I’m working on we had a contact form module that sents and validates emails which worked perfectly fine on one page (the one it was made for), however this form should be “cloned” to be present on 4 pages with different email addresses. Since Magentos Core is MVC-like I believed there would be an easy way to pass email addresses to the Controller.

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