Magento是目前全世界最先进的开源电子商务系统，网店系统。MEC电子商务是中国第一家Magento建站定制服务提供商。400-680-1021 | 服务范围包括网站开发，营销策划及运营外包。

OsCommerce是一款非常经典，也非常强大的电子商务软件，但是随着网络的发展，它的程序架构已经制约了它的发展，而Magento麦金斗是一个很 出色的新平台。但是有很多做外贸的认识可能之前就是使用OSCommerce建站的，可能想到转到Magento麦金斗比较麻烦，不过现在不需要担心，有一个插 件可以帮你从OsCommerce中获取数据，导入Magento的数据库中，那你就不用为大量的产品导入而费心了。这个插件是osCommerce Migration Tool。

Magento Connect：magento-core/Mage_Oscommerce

介绍：

Now, available for download through Magento Connect, is a new extension for DataFlow which enables importing your data from osCommerce into your website in Magento.

To set up a profile, all Magento needs is information such as the IP/host of your osCommerce DB, user login and name of DB. Magento will take care of the rest. The data Magento supports is the default DB of osCommerce 2.2 RC2 which includes customers, orders, categories and products in multiple languages.

Major improvements of release

- Implemented customer multiple address
- Converting different encodings to default utf8
- Support for product special price
- Support for product's images
- Converting for timezones
- Fixed known issues of previous release

要获得更加详细的信息和讨论，可以访问官方的： http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/creating_an_oscommerce_import_profile

可能是Magento麦金斗系统的默认功能中在生成图片缩略图时会变形，所有有社区人员写出了个图片重设而不会变形的插件，那就不用为产品的图片费心了，这个插件是：Resize images proportionally。效果看下面的图片，最直观了：

Magento Connect：magento-community/NetAmbition_DirectResize

介绍：

Give the possibility to resize images without distorted them.

You can specify a Width and a Height value as well as a ratio.

The ratio options are :
0 - none proportionnal. The image will be resized at the Width and Height values.
1 - proportionnal, based on the Width value
2 - proportionnal, based on the Height value
3 - proportionnal for the new image can fit in the Width and the Height values.
4 - proportionnal. The new image will cover an area with the Width and the Height values.

For use, replace the actuals calls :
$this->resize(150,150);
with :
$this->directResize(150,150,3);
where the options are : (width, height, ratio)

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To use the module, you must find in your .phtml file the calls of the product images and change them.

For example, in the file design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml
at line 95, you can find : "->resize(x,y)" that you must replace with "->directResize(x,y,r)" with r = ratio of your choice.

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Don't forget to REMOVE the height and width attributes in the HTML tag.

在现在的Web系统中，拥有一个所见即所得的编辑器是比较方便的，例如比较出名的两个：TinyMCE和FCKeditor都是比较方便的，用得人 也很多，在Magento中默认是没有集成这样的功能，但是不用担心，通过Magento麦金斗强大的扩展功能可以很好的实现，你只需要安装Fontis WYSIWYG Editor这个插件，现在它支持TinyMCE和FCKeditor。

Magento Connect：magento-community/Fontis_Wysiwyg

详细介绍：

Adds a chosen JavaScript WYSISWYG editor to selected admin pages.

This extension gives you the option to enable a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor to specified admin pages. Currently available editors are:

• TinyMCE
• FCKeditor

 

Settings are available from the System -> Configuration page, under Admin.

Changlog
========
1.0.4:
- Added config option allowing CSS IDs of additional textareas that should use the WYSIWYG editor to be specified.

1.0.3:
- Integrated FCKeditor file uploader with Magento.
- Added FCKeditor skin configuration option.
- Added FCKeditor file upload directory configuration option.

1.0.2:
- Fixed issue where some text areas would say 'Required field' and not submit correctly.
- Added custom_config.js file to the FCKeditor directory where extra toolbar set definitions can be added.
- Added option to configuration page to select the FCKeditor toolbar set used.

Known Issues
===========

* Pages loaded through AJAX calls will not display the WYSIWYG editor.

Magento麦金斗系统运行比较慢，要求也比较高，这个大家都知道的了，但是它有功能强大，真的是让人又爱又恨。下面介绍一个Magento开发团队开发的插件，官方说明中说可以提高25%到50%的速度，那确实是已经不错的了。这个插件是：Magento Compiler。

Magento Connect：magento-core/Mage_Compiler。需要注意的是，现在的还是Beta版本。

This module compiles all files of a Magento installation and creates a single include path to increase performance

Compiler module is still in Beta and should NOT be used in a production environment for now. From our early tests this module gave between 25% to 50% better performance depending on the page requested.

To enable this module please add the following lines in index.php:

/**
* Error reporting
*/
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

/**
* Compilation includes configuration file
*/
$compilerConfig = 'includes/config.php';
if (file_exists($compilerConfig)) {
include($compilerConfig);
}

right before:

$mageFilename = 'app/Mage.php';

To test this module after installation go to System->Tools->Compilation

介绍一个Magento麦金斗的流量统计插件，可以即时的看到流量的情况，不像一般的统计软件，一般的都是隔天才知道访问的统计的，这个是可以在后台即时的看到结果，是基于Clicky Web Analytics服务的，插件为：Magento Clicky Extension。

Magento Connect：20美元。

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详细介绍：

Clicky Web Analytics is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site's traffic in real time.

The Magento - GetClicky Extension gives you the possibility to use the real time web analytics services of Clicky.

Clicky is a real time web analytics service. This means that when you login and view your stats, you are seeing up to the minute data on the traffic to your web site. Most services don't let you see what's happening "today" until the day after.

Real time data lets you react to changes in your traffic as they occur. For example, if you had an article that hit the front page of a popular site like digg.com, you would see the traffic spike in Clicky immediately, along with links back to the sources sending you the traffic. Knowing this, you could make changes to your site or to the article itself to take advantage of the situation.

If instead you relied solely on a service like Google Analytics, it would be up to 24 hours before you even knew about the traffic, and by then it would be too late to do anything about it.

Google Analytics是一个出色的流量统计软件，使用的人也很多，Magento麦金斗中也可以集成这个统计软件，也已经有专门的插件可以使用：Fooman Google Analytics Plus。

Magento Connect：magento-community/Fooman_GoogleAnalyticsPlus

详细介绍：

Additional features for the default GoogleAnalytics module.

This is a beta release - please report how this extensions works for you.

Current improvements:

• * Track every individual page - including sections retrieved via AJAX during one-page-checkout
• * Track the actual typed in keywords by your user (this might not yet work due to a bug in Magento itself)
• * Temporary solution to make your Magento install SEO friendlier via robots.txt

Your funnel in Google Analytics should include these steps:
/checkout/onepage
/checkout/onepage/opc-billing
/checkout/onepage/opc-shipping
/checkout/onepage/opc-shipping_method
/checkout/onepage/opc-payment
/checkout/onepage/opc-review
/checkout/onepage/opc-review-placeOrderClicked
/checkout/onepage/success/

Additional support can be obtained through our website.

Funnel Exits
Currently there seems to be an issue where exits are not properly displayed in the funnel visualisation in Google even though the pageviews are counted correctly in the top content report. [url=http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewchild/10221/]See also this thread.[/url] If anyone has any ideas on how to make Google Analytics behave I am keen to hear it.

由于Magento麦金斗的后台运行比较慢，所以在网站建设之初，为网站添加产品就成为了一个头痛的问题，添加一个产品就要好几分钟，真的让人受不了。在Magento麦金斗社区中 就这样的插件，可以把添加产品从magento麦金斗中分离出来，独立操作，那样就快很多了。这个插件是一个独立的PHP程序，你可以在本地或服务器上添加产品 （当然你要先安装环境），那样你就可以简单的为Magento添加产品了。这个插件是：Quick Product Adder Client。

Magento Connect:75美元。

这个插件可不是免费的呢，75美元，的确挺贵的，呵呵，因为Magento提供了SOAP类的API，所以那位高人可以写了出来让我们受益一下。

之前介绍过Magento麦金斗的Blog实现的插件：Lazzymonks Wordpress Integration， 这个插件是整合Wordpress用的。但是插件的作者lazzymonk更新插件的频率比较慢，而且也还是beta版本。现在有一个新的团队接管了这个 工作，那就是aheadWorks的Blog扩展了（Full featured blog extension for magento）。看插件的介绍是不错的，应该是在Lazzymonks的基础上改进过来的。支持的语言版本也有：English (United States) - en_US,  Czech (Czech Republic) - cs_CZ,  English (United Kingdom) - en_GB,  German (Germany) - de_DE，不过还没有中文的，呵呵，下面是插件的图片介绍。

Magento Connect：magento-community/AW_Blog。

下面的内容可以看到这个团队的热情，看来值得一用：

Due to the lack of activity in this highly demanded extension development, aheadWorks has agreed with the owner and previous developer lazzymonk on moving the ownership rights to our company.

We are already well known in modules development sphere and decided to take our chance to make a valuable contribution to the community.

So we must answer the first question that could arise immediately - yes, the extension continues to be free and open source despite it changes its license and owner.

We'll try to dedicate more efforts to the development to make this extension better and better and satisfy growing needs of the community.

注意的地方：

If your store uses Monk_Blog, this extension is designed to replace it. Please disable Monk_Blog before install.
Edit app/etc/modules/Monk_Blog.xml: change true to false

兼容性

Sure, we made the new version compatible with the previous one. It doesn't delete any information, everything from your old blog will be integrated. To ensure proper migration please refer to the upgrade instructions and follow them thoroughly.

新版本功能?

* Last Magento version compatibility
* Switchable WYSIWYG
* Excerpt field
* Tags added
* Tags cloud block added
* If user is logged in comment fields are pre-filled
* Ability to show blog menu only on blog page
* Settings menu shortcut
* Add post menu shortcut
* .htm rewrite added to post link

修复的Bugs:

* Categories not shown in menu if there are no categories
* If category is not assigned to any store, it is shown by default at all stores
* Fixed admin 404's when "add store code to url" is on
* Non-clear posts delete
* Recent posts display fixed(0 caused unlimited posts instead of disabling)
* Auto-focus to comments form removed

可以在他们的Blog：http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/blog/或Magento上面的小组：http://www.magentocommerce.com/group/join/286跟踪本插件的持续更新内容。

TinyMCE是一块比较强大的WYSIWYG编辑器，使用起来效果很好，功能也比较齐全。之前介绍过另一个Magento麦金斗的WYSIWYG插件：Fontis WYSIWYG Editor，不只是可以TinyMCE，也可以使用FCKeditor。

下面介绍的是只整合了TinyMCE的插件 - BouncingOrange TinyMCE (WYSIWYG)

Magento Connect:magento-community/BouncingOrange_TinyMce

特点：

TinyMCE is fully configurable (without modifying any code file) in the administration configuration (System -> Configuration / Admin / WYSISYG Editor (TinyMCE)). You can activate TinyMCE for the following textaera : - Product Description - Product Short Description - CMS Page Content - Static Block Content - Category Description - Newsletter Template TinyMCE extra packages included : - GZIP Compressor - Language Pack (+60 languages)

需要上传/管理功能的话，可以增加使用模块 - BouncingOrange_TinyBrowserFile。

一个比较简单的插件，用来学习的话觉得不错。主要功能是在产品分类列表页面中增加可以删除Placeholder的方法。插件 - Remove Placeholder。

Magento Connect:magento-community/ESolutions_NoPlaceholder

介绍：

Provides a method that can be used to remove the placeholder on the category list page.

This module extends Mage_Catalog_Helper_Image and provides the method hasImage() which will return true if the current product has an image and false if not.

This new method can be used in an if statement to remove the magento placeholder image.

Magento麦金斗中的CMS系统已经不错的了，但是新闻发布相关的好像不怎么好实现，现在有了这一个插件就很好了，看下图的显示效果也不错的，对于要实现简单的网站新闻发布很好。插件：news。

Magento Connect：magento-community/news

特点：

可以实现在前台显示最新的5条新闻，在后台可以管理新闻信息，添加，编辑，删除功能都有。

效果图：

使用过Magento麦金斗的人都知道，在添加页面的时候，不管是产品费雷页面，还是产品页面，还是CMS页面，我们都可以设置布局的方式，显示左侧栏， 显示有侧栏等等。那有时候我们可能会希望批量修改这些显示方式，而又不用修改文件，就可以使用这个Magento麦金斗插件了：Grid Manager。是aheadWorks提供的扩展，之前介绍过他的另外一个扩展：Blog插件。

Magento Connect:69美元。

功能特点：

* Add/remove columns
* Editable column titles and sizes
* Quick editor which opens without page reload
* On-the-fly column design
* 2-ways grid customization
* Ability to explore grid data source
* Easy 2-minutes installation
* Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility

Magento麦金斗的菜单管理是比较灵活的，可以层级显示，不过有时候要修改菜单的显示方式的话可能就要修改主题文件了，如果不想做修改的话，可以使用 下面介绍的插件进行操作，可以自由定制头部，左侧和右侧的菜单的显示 - Magento Easy Navigation。不过这样的插件也要39美元，觉得不怎么值，会修改主题文件的话还是修改好，如果你想学习，可以通过本站的Magento麦金斗设计人员手册学习，这个插件是TemplatesMaster开发的。

Magento Connect:39美元

特点：

This extension will help to easily change magent classic navigation look and user experience. EasyNavigation module support top navigatio block, left navigation block and right navigation block. Select navigation type, number of navigation levels to load, load active brunch only option, navigation columns count, levels per dropdown to create really unique navigation type for your store.

Magento麦金斗中的客户组是一个非常好的工具，可以在制定产品价格和购物车规则等的时候用到，可以很好的帮助网站进行推广。但有的时候你可以要客户 的客户组在达到一定的条件之后自动变化，例如在客户购买了800美元的产品之后，客户就升级成为高级客户组等。这样的需求是需要的，之前在Magento麦金斗的论坛上面也看到过有人提出了这样的需求。现在有了下面的这个插件，就可以轻松地满足这些需求了 - Customer Group Switcher。

Magento Connect：magento-community/Netzarbeiter_GroupSwitcher

特点：

This extension enables you to automatically change a customers group when specific conditions are met.
Possible conditions are:
- A specific product is brought
- A certain amount of orders (or more) have been placed by the customer
- The customer has generated a certain (or higher) turnover
- An order with a specific total (or higher) is placed

The details of the conditions can configured as follows:
- Customer group to switch the customer to
- Rule trigger type
- Rule condition value (the SKU, or the amounts)
- Apply rule only if the customer currently is in a specific group
- Apply rule only if the order matches a specific status (pending, complete, ...)
- Apply rule only to orders from specific store views

USAGE:
After the installation there is a new menu entry in the admin interface under
Customers > Customer Groups > Group Switch Rules

There you can add as many rules as you need in the usual magento way.

CONFIGURATION:
You can disable the extension on a store view level at
System > Configuration > Customer Configuration > Customer Group Switcher

CHANGELOG:
0.1.7 Initial Release

TODO:
- Add German locale
- Do I want to limit NumOrders and TotalTurnover selects to orders from the store_id's of the rule??
- Ajax search autocomplete when entering sku's
- Hide store_ids multiselect on single store installations
- Mass update rule status

If you have ideas for improvements or find bugs, please send them to 该E-mail地址已受到防止垃圾邮件机器人的保护，您必须启用浏览器的Java Script才能看到。 ,
with Netzarbeiter_GroupSwitcher as part of the subject

Joomla是一个强大的CMS系统，Magento麦金斗又是一个强大的电子商务平台，两者可以整合那就可以开发出更加强大的平台了。下面介绍的插件就 是整合这两个系统的，不过是一个收费的插件，给出的Magento Connect只是一个downloader，整套程序还是要钱的，不过之前介绍过的Drupal整合Magento麦金斗的插件都是免费的呢。MageBridge for Joomla!

Magento Connect:magento-community/Jira_MageBridge(只是一个downloader，需要整套程序可以到http://www.yireo.com买license)

特点：

MageBridge adds a bridge between Joomla! 1.5 and the Magento e-commerce platform. It allows for displaying Magento content within the Joomla! component-area but also ships with Joomla! modules and Joomla! plugins.

Please note: This is a commercial extension. The extension-key supplied on this page is used to install a MageBridge Installer program, but to use the actual functionality you'll need to purchase a license key.

The Yireo Shop will be online in a few days time, allowing you to purchase a license for this wonderful solution.

在一些网站我们看到过，一个产品有几个可供选择的时候，我们是通过那些颜色小图片或按钮来选择我们喜欢的颜色，然后可以看到那件产品这个颜色的相关 图片。Magento麦金斗默认是没有这个功能，不过通过下面的插件就可以很容易实现这个功能 - Color Thumbnails。效果可以看：http://www.temgra.com/index.php/color-thumbnails- magento-extension.html

Magento Connect:99美元。

特点：

Color Thumbnails is a Magento extension for configurable products. With Color Thumbnails your customers can see how a product looks like in different colors, shapes or designs. This Magento extension is very similar to Color Views. The difference is that Color Thumbnails can be used with many attributes – in the first step all available colors (or designs) are shown, followed by other attributes. Thumbnails are shown for the first drop down only. In this way, one can see how many different colors or designs of a product are available. To achieve this images are saved in folders for each configurable product. If the Magento extension cannot find a certain image or thumbnail, placeholder images or thumbnails are used. Each color can have any number of additional images. This Magento extension works extremely fast – additional images are displayed very quickly when you move the mouse over an additional picture. It is very good suitable for shops for apparel, shoes or other items in various colors or patterns – in the first step, all available colors or patterns are displayed, then size, length, etc. selected.

本插件可以在Magneto麦金斗前台浏览产品是通过Vehicle，Model和Year来过滤浏览的商品，这个主要是提高用户体验的。如果有需要的话可以使用这个插件 - Year Make Model。看下面效果图：

Magento Connect：magento-community/Year_Make_Model_Filter_Box

特点：

This is "Select Vehicle" box for Auto Parts web sites.
It adds ability to select Make Model Year.
Then when you navigate with categories menu you see only products that match the make, model, year selected (and the products that don't have any make, model, year restrictions).
The selected make, model, year options are stored in the visitor's browser cookies. So when he visits the site the next time the year, make, model are already selected and he sees only the products for his car.

HOW TO USE:
Go to your Magento admin panel -> Ymm -> Manage Items and add YMM items to all your products.

NOTE: The products without model/make/year/ set are treated as for all models, all years, all makes.
If you want to select BMW and see only BMW products all the other products should be set to another car.
So you have to add YMM items to all your products to see the effect.

NOTE: You should know your product id to be able to add an YMM item to it.
You can find product id in the product description page url:
http://yoursite.com/magento/catalog/product/view/id/119/s/coalesce-funct...
The number 119 is the product id in the url.

CHANGE LOG:
in version 2.0 import feature was added

在Magento麦金斗中本插件的作用是可以在有新产品，产品库存更新，促销信息和其他一些你希望的一些产品更新状态，可以通过Product Updates Notifications来通知客户。这个功能是一个营销的手段。方便管理老客户和可疑获得更多的回访率，随时知道商店的变化。

价格要79美元，不便宜呢。

值不值得购买就要看你的需求了。可以在下面列举的地方放这个插件功能的链接：
- under the title above the reviews block;
- after reviews before the price;
- after the price before "Add to cart" button;
- after "Add to cart" before short description.
You can also insert it anywhere you wish via CMS.

在Magento麦金斗中订单号的生成方式是默认的方式，可能有很多人不喜欢这样的格式。包括Invoice，Shipment和Credit Memo号码的。这个插件就是可以自定义这些号码的格式的插件，不过是一个收费的插件，感觉不值。

Magento麦金斗插件价格：24.95美元。

下面介绍的是一些修改的例子，当然也可以自定义这些格式的了：
- Custom prefixes for orders, invoices, shipments and credit memos;
- Custom postfixes for orders, invoices, shipments and credit memos;
- Set a starting number for orders, invoices, shipments and credit memos;
- Individual prefixes, postfixes and starting number may be used for each store;
- Support templates values for prefix and postfix, for example: %STOREID%, %YY%, %YYYY%.

Highslide是一个被广泛使用的JS图片浏览特效，客户体验效果很好。Magento麦金斗中默认的图片浏览方式并不是Highslide的方式，本插件可以轻易的把Highlslide效果整合到Magento麦金斗建立的网店中。

不过这个也要收费的呢，要15美元。

其实有很多的Magento麦金斗主题也已经集成了Highslide功能的了。如果你对Magento麦金斗的模板制作有点了解的话，也可以自己加入进去的。你可以通过本网站的Magento麦金斗设计人员手册对这方面的知识进行学习。

当你不想在Magento麦金斗后台中为每个分类页面都设定一个头部图片或分类描述的时候，而是想用一个通用的图片显示在每个分类页面的话。可以使用这个插件-EASY TOP CENTER COLUMN IMAGE。

不过这个也要钱的，太不厚道了，要€7.00。

不值得。