Setting up configurable products in Magento can be a frustrating task for beginners, since there are so many steps involved, so this tutorial breaks it down in the three basic steps.

Magento allows you add options to simple products. This tutorial will show you how to add options to a simple product and what types of options are available, as well as the limitations of simple products when it comes to options.

In most cases you can edit Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Image to change the background of your thumbnails or you can install the plugin from the downloads page that does effectively the same thing. On older PHP/GD systems though, this still won’t work. You will still get black backgrounds no matter what color you choose. This is because there [...]

Magento’s get/set magic methods are very useful. However there is a bug with PHP 5.2.9 that may cause this not to work, in some situations. Both of the above are valid PHP and will work fine, in most cases. However, because the getItemTitle() method is undefined, the bug in 5.2.9 causes it to get passed [...]

A grouped product in Magento is a collection of products that are offered to the shopper on a single page. For example, if you are selling memory cards for cameras, and you offer the same memory card in 8GB, 20GB, and 50GB models, you may choose to create a grouped product in your store to show the shopper these options. This tutorial will explain how this can be done.