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If your Magento store has a large number of products to choose from, Product Categories are essential to help users navigate your store. This tutorial outlines the steps to add categories to your site.

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CodeIgniter and Magento are both amazing development platforms. If you use both often you may want to reuse/share code across the two systems. This is a quick technique that might help you to do that.

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