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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

How to change paypal button image in magento...

Don't even bother finding the solution at Magento Admin Panel or at PayPal :), spent quit a time looking for the solution over there.

Steps

You need to access the file (using ftp...) located here:

/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/paypal/express/shortcut.phtml

Edit it:

find the line that contains "img src=".
replace the source with your wanted 'Pay with PayPal' image path.

Results

I've managed to change it from this one:

To this one:

Resources

(*1) - http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/228452/#t322079

Using PayPal express with magento.

The story
I was asked to give the user the ability to pay using PayPal services.
The site is magento store.
The user will have two option at PayPal:

He have an acount and will pay after he logged into his PayPal account.
He have no account - he is NOT requiered to open a PayPal account to pay, he'll enter his credit credentiols and pay.

Simple, right? :-)

I got into some problems, the community help on this matter is not so obvious, after a day of research and experements, which hopefuly you will avoid, here are the final steps did to satisfy these requierments:

The solution

On Magento Admin Panel

Magento admin panel => Menu => System => Configuration, click.
In the left configuration panel => Sales => PayPal, click.
"Email Associated with PayPal Merchant Account" => enter your PayPal account email.
"Select a PayPal Solution" => "Express Checkout", checked
At "Express Checkout Settings" (*2):

"Payment Action" : Usually Sale .
"Enable PayPal Guest Checkout" => Yes
SAVE CONIFG!

At "API/Integration Settings":

API Authentication Methods => API Signiture.
Get Credentials from PayPal, click:

Entering PayPay... Enter your PayPal credential...
Just get your API credentials through Profile > My selling tools > API Access > Update > Request API credentials > Request API Signature (*1)

Enter the API credentioal, appropriattly, to:

API Username, Password & Signature.

SAVE CONIFG!

These steps created a fast & secure checout point for my users to buy products without PayPay account.

Hope it helped.

Resources

Saturday, December 24, 2011

MAGENTO: can't "Log in to Admin Panel"

Just solved this problem.

Problem description
I've instaled magento in my local computer and I can't login to the admin panel.

Understanding the problem
Magento doesn't work well with 'localhost' and '127.0.0.1'. After some readings on the net I understood that these addresses won't allow cookies, resolting in admin panel login failure.

Solution
Edit 'host' file located at 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc'.
Add a new line, for example:
127.0.0.1 shloemi.com # Localhost virtual development site.

Usage
You can now acces magento admin pannel using the site shloemi.com.
Example: http://shloemi.com/Magento/index.php/