$proxy = new SoapClient('http://your.magento.domain/api/v2_soap/?wsdl');
$sessionId = $proxy->login('username', 'password!');
$product = new stdclass();
$product->attributes = array(
     'description',
     'short_description',
     'price',
     'custom_attribute_code'
);
$data = $proxy->catalogProductInfo($sessionId, $sku, null, $product);
var_dump($data);

The above var_dump() would show the values of requested fields except the custom_attribute_code. The reason for this is because a custom product attribute is available in additional_attributes property instead.

Get custom product attribute:

To get the value of custom_attribute_code, use the following code:

$proxy = new SoapClient('http://your.magento.domain/api/v2_soap/?wsdl');
$sessionId = $proxy->login('username', 'password!');
$product = new stdClass();
$product->additional_attributes = array('custom_attribute_code');
$data = $proxy->catalogProductInfo($sessionId, $sku, null, $product);

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Solution:

To do that, you must open the file js/mage/adminhtml/wysiwyg/tiny_mce/setup.js and locate the line below:

var settings = {

Right after the code plugins : plugins, add the lines highlighted in grey:

        var settings = {
            mode : (mode != undefined ? mode : 'none'),
            elements : this.id,
            theme : 'advanced',
            plugins : plugins,
            forced_root_block: false,
            extended_valid_elements: '+ul[*],+li[*],+p[*],+span[*],+div[*],+a[*]',
            remove_linebreaks : false,
            theme_advanced_buttons1 : magentoPlugins ...

Save the file and clear your cache to apply the changes.

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catalogProductCreate Error:

SQLSTATE23000: Integrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`db`.`catalog_product_super_link`, CONSTRAINT `FK_CAT_PRD_SPR_LNK_PRD_ID_CAT_PRD_ENTT_ENTT_ID` FOREIGN KEY (`product_id`) REFERENCES `catalog_product_entity` (`entity_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE)

An empty url_key value causes the above issue. To fix it, make sure that the configurable product being created has a valid url_key. This is required for any product that is available on both catalog and search listings as shown below:

Do not forget that a url_key needs to be unique because this is used to generate the hyperlink of the product.

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Upon investigation, I noticed that the method _beforeSave() is being called multiple times regardless if the field is for timezone or not as shown in the screenshot below:

The error occurs when the value of a non-timezone field is validated against the array result of the method DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers($allWithBc).

To fix this, duplicate the core file:

app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Model/System/Config/Backend/Locale/Timezone.php

into this path (create the directory if it doesn’t exists)

app/code/local/Mage/Adminhtml/Model/System/Config/Backend/Locale/Timezone.php

Locate the method _beforeSave() and add the code below at the beginning:

if($this->getField() !== 'timezone')
    return $this;

The content of the method _beforeSave() should be similar to the one below (note this is for Magento CE 1.7.0.2 so adjust accordingly with the code changes)

protected function _beforeSave()
{
    if($this->getField() !== 'timezone')
        return $this;

    $allWithBc = self::ALL_WITH_BC;
    if (defined('DateTimeZone::ALL_WITH_BC')) {
        $allWithBc = DateTimeZone::ALL_WITH_BC;
    }

    if (!in_array($this->getValue(), DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers($allWithBc))) {
        Mage::throwException(Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Invalid timezone'));
    }

    return $this;
}

After that, you should now be able to save your configuration changes in the admin.

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Parse error: parse error in /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/fontis/australia/ payment/directdeposit/form.phtml on line 42

Some would ask you to check the file permission while others would tell that you need to turn off compilation. If you did all these already and still see the error, I would suggest for you to check if short_open_tag is enabled in your php.ini file. This setting enables the syntax <? ... ?> to work instead of typing <?php … ?>.

Upon checking the form.phtml file, the code in line 31 would show that it is using the short_open_tag (see code below) so you must change it from:

<?endif;?>

to this:

<?php endif;?>

Refresh your page to see the now working Direct Deposit block.

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First, let’s create a file called index.php and inside it, create function (I named it getCustomers()) that will extract an array of customer list and their information. The function should be able to access the Mage.php file of your Magento instance.

<?php
function getCustomers() {
	/* Magento's Mage.php path
	 * Mage Enabler users may skip these lines
	 */
	require_once ("../magento/app/Mage.php");
	umask(0);
	Mage::app("default");
	/* Magento's Mage.php path */

	/* Get customer model, run a query */
	$collection = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')
				  ->getCollection()
				  ->addAttributeToSelect('*');

	$result = array();
	foreach ($collection as $customer) {
		$result[] = $customer->toArray();
	}

	return $result;
}
?>

Once you’re done with the function, add the HTML tags needed to create the a page with a table for the customer information.

<html>
<head>
<title>Customers</title>
<style>
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
	<td>ID</td>
	<td>Lastname</td>
	<td>Firstname</td>
	<td>Email</td>
	<td>Is Active?</td>
	<td>Date Created</td>
	<td>Date Updated</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

After line 47, press return/enter key and add the following script to loop through the array result of our getCustomer() function:

<?php
$result = getcustomers();
if(count($result) > 0){
	foreach($result as $key => $value){
		echo "<tr>";
			echo "<td>".$value['entity_id']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['lastname']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['firstname']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['email']."</td>";
			echo "<td>";
			echo $value['is_active'] == 1 ? "Yes" : "No";
			echo "</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['created_at']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['updated_at']."</td>";
		echo "</tr>";
	}
}else{
	echo "<tr><td colspan=\"7\">No records found</td></tr>";
}
?>

There are several available information within the array that you can also use. Here’s an example of a record result from our function:

[0] => Array
	(
		[entity_id] => 1
		[entity_type_id] => 1
		[attribute_set_id] => 0
		[website_id] => 1
		[email] => john.doe@example.com
		[group_id] => 1
		[increment_id] => 000000001
		[store_id] => 1
		[created_at] => 2007-08-30 23:23:13
		[updated_at] => 2008-08-08 12:28:24
		[is_active] => 1
		[firstname] => John
		[lastname] => Doe
		[password_hash] => 2049484a4020ed15d0e4238db22977d5:eg
		[prefix] =>
		[middlename] =>
		[suffix] =>
		[taxvat] =>
		[default_billing] => 274
		[default_shipping] => 274
	)

Save the file as index.php and access it through your browser. It should display a table similar to the one below:

Here’s the index.php for your reference:

<?php
function getcustomers() {
	/* Magento's Mage.php path 
	 * Mage Enabler users may skip these lines
	 */
	require_once ("../magento/app/Mage.php");
	umask(0);
	Mage::app("default");
	/* Magento's Mage.php path */
	
	/* Get customer model, run a query */
	$collection = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')
				  ->getCollection()
				  ->addAttributeToSelect('*');
	
	$result = array();
	foreach ($collection as $customer) {
		$result[] = $customer->toArray();
	}
	
	return $result;
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Customers</title>
<style>
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
	<td>ID</td>
	<td>Lastname</td>
	<td>Firstname</td>
	<td>Email</td>
	<td>Is Active?</td>
	<td>Date Created</td>
	<td>Date Updated</td>
</tr>
<?php
$result = getcustomers();
if(count($result) > 0){
	foreach($result as $key => $value){
		echo "<tr>";
			echo "<td>".$value['entity_id']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['lastname']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['firstname']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['email']."</td>";
			echo "<td>";
			echo $value['is_active'] == 1 ? "Yes" : "No";
			echo "</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['created_at']."</td>";
			echo "<td>".$value['updated_at']."</td>";
		echo "</tr>";
	}
}else{
	echo "<tr><td colspan=\"7\">No records found</td></tr>";
}
?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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There are other ways of doing it. Oddly enough, some are pretty simple and straight forward.

We will use a single HTML file which will serve as our ‘external’ site. The source code of our index.php is shown below:

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      WebFontConfig = {
        google: { families: [ 'Josefin Sans Std Light', 'Lobster' ] }
      };
      (function() {
        var wf = document.createElement('script');
        wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +
            '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';
        wf.type = 'text/javascript';
        wf.async = 'true';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(wf, s);
      })();
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
      .wf-active p.text {
        font-family: 'Calibri', serif;
		font-size: 16px;
		text-align: justify;
		color:#666666;
		border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
		-moz-border-radius: 20px;
		-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
		padding: 20px
      }

	  .wf-active h2 {
	  	font-family: 'Lobster', serif;
        font-size: 20px;
		color: #666666
      }

      .wf-active h1 {
        font-family: 'Lobster', serif;
        font-size: 45px;
		color: #006699;
		margin-bottom: 10px;
      }

	  div.body {
	  	max-width: 850px;
		margin: auto;
		background-color: #FFFFFF;
		padding: 30px 50px 0px 50px;
		text-align: left;
		height: 60%;
	  }

	  p.bugs {
	  	font: 12px/1.55 Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
		text-align: center;
	  }

	  p.otherdata {
	  	font-family: 'Calibri', serif;
		font-size: 15px;
		color: #999999;
		margin-bottom: 20px
	  }

	  .otherdata strong {
	  	color: #000000
	  }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
  	<div class="body">
		<h1>How to add Magento blocks, CSS and Javascript to an external site</h1>
		<p class="otherdata">Written by <strong>Richard Feraro</strong> | Posted on <strong>July 2, 2010</strong></p>
		<p class="text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis a quam massa. Nullam eget erat metus. Sed vel justo enim. Proin rhoncus laoreet bibendum. Nullam eget est nisi. In eget sem in erat sodales bibendum. Morbi gravida augue sed felis tincidunt a congue dui placerat. Aliquam purus risus, mollis sed ullamcorper non, viverra eu odio. Suspendisse nibh nisi, suscipit at viverra eu, convallis ac odio. Morbi nec sapien eros. Suspendisse nec nulla erat, ac porttitor neque. Integer felis dolor, sollicitudin sed semper et, imperdiet nec turpis. Proin blandit luctus egestas. </p>
	</div>
  </body>
</html>
The code above shall produce a page like the one in the screenshot below.

We’ll start editing at the beginning of the file by adding a require_once() for our Mage.php file.
// Your Magento Mage.php
// Mage Enabler WordPress plugin users may
// skip these lines
require_once ("/your/magento/app/Mage.php");
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");
Proceed with adding the if(class_exists('Mage')){...} which encloses our Magento scripts to prevent the site from breaking if in case the Mage object failed to be instantiated. Check the inline comments for more details.
// Make sure to execute this block of code
// only if Mage object is present
if(class_exists('Mage')){
	// Instantiate session and generate needed cookie
	Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
	$Block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout');

	// Start pulling the blocks
	$head = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Head');
	// Add default css
	// Magento adds the default skin directory
	// 'skin/frontend/default/default' before 'css/styles.css'
	// making it look like the URL below:
	// http://localhost/magento/skin/frontend/default/default/css/styles.css
	$head->addCss('css/styles.css');
	// Add Prototype JS file
	// Note that it automatically adds the 'js' directory at the beginning
	// making it look like the URL below:
	// http://localhost/magento/js/prototype/prototype.js
	$head->addJs('prototype/prototype.js');

	// Get the header's HTML
	$header = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Header');
	$header->setTemplate('page/html/header.phtml');

	// And the footer's HTML as well
	$footer = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Footer');
	$footer->setTemplate('page/html/footer.phtml');
}
That’s it. The codes above will generate the Magento session, the 3 blocks for CSS/JS (which uses the default skin of Magento and adds the Prototype JS file) and the HTML tags for the header and footer.
To use the blocks, insert the CSS/JS block right before the end tag of </HEAD>:
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the needed tags for CSS and JS
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $head-&amp;amp;amp;gt;getCssJsHtml() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;/head&amp;amp;amp;gt;
Proceed by adding the Magento header block right after the <BODY> tag but before the <DIV> tag.
&amp;amp;amp;lt;body&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the Header HTML
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $header-&amp;amp;amp;gt;toHTML() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  	&amp;amp;amp;lt;div class="body"&amp;amp;amp;gt;
Finally, add the Magento footer block right between the end tag of </DIV> and </BODY> tag
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the Footer HTML
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $footer-&amp;amp;amp;gt;toHTML() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  &amp;amp;amp;lt;/body&amp;amp;amp;gt;
It should display a page of our external site which now uses the header and footer of Magento. Check the source to see the additional tags generated.

The full index.php can be found below:
&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
// Your Magento Mage.php
// Mage Enabler WordPress plugin users may
// skip line numbers 5, 6 and 7
require_once ("/your/magento/app/Mage.php");
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");

// Make sure to execute this block of code
// only if Mage object is present
if(class_exists('Mage')){
	// Instantiate session and generate needed cookie
	Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' =&amp;amp;amp;gt; 'frontend'));
	$Block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout');

	// Start pulling the blocks
	$head = $Block-&amp;amp;amp;gt;createBlock('Page/Html_Head');
	// Add default css
	// Magento adds the default skin directory
	// 'skin/frontend/default/default' before 'css/styles.css'
	// making it look like the URL below:
	// http://localhost/magento/skin/frontend/default/default/css/styles.css
	$head-&amp;amp;amp;gt;addCss('css/styles.css');
	// Add Prototype JS file
	// Note that it automatically adds the 'js' directory at the beginning
	// making it look like the URL below:
	// http://localhost/magento/js/prototype/prototype.js
	$head-&amp;amp;amp;gt;addJs('prototype/prototype.js');

	// Get the header's HTML
	$header = $Block-&amp;amp;amp;gt;createBlock('Page/Html_Header');
	$header-&amp;amp;amp;gt;setTemplate('page/html/header.phtml');

	// And the footer's HTML as well
	$footer = $Block-&amp;amp;amp;gt;createBlock('Page/Html_Footer');
	$footer-&amp;amp;amp;gt;setTemplate('page/html/footer.phtml');
}

?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;html&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  &amp;amp;amp;lt;head&amp;amp;amp;gt;
    &amp;amp;amp;lt;script type="text/javascript"&amp;amp;amp;gt;
      WebFontConfig = {
        google: { families: [ 'Josefin Sans Std Light', 'Lobster' ] }
      };
      (function() {
        var wf = document.createElement('script');
        wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +
            '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';
        wf.type = 'text/javascript';
        wf.async = 'true';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(wf, s);
      })();
    &amp;amp;amp;lt;/script&amp;amp;amp;gt;
    &amp;amp;amp;lt;style type="text/css"&amp;amp;amp;gt;
      .wf-active p.text {
        font-family: 'Calibri', serif;
		font-size: 16px;
		text-align: justify;
		color:#666666;
		border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
		-moz-border-radius: 20px;
		-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
		padding: 20px
      }

	  .wf-active h2 {
	  	font-family: 'Lobster', serif;
        font-size: 20px;
		color: #666666
      }

      .wf-active h1 {
        font-family: 'Lobster', serif;
        font-size: 45px;
		color: #006699;
		margin-bottom: 10px;
      }

	  div.body {
	  	max-width: 850px;
		margin: auto;
		background-color: #FFFFFF;
		padding: 30px 50px 0px 50px;
		text-align: left;
		height: 60%;
	  }

	  p.bugs {
	  	font: 12px/1.55 Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
		text-align: center;
	  }

	  p.otherdata {
	  	font-family: 'Calibri', serif;
		font-size: 15px;
		color: #999999;
		margin-bottom: 20px
	  }

	  .otherdata strong {
	  	color: #000000
	  }
    &amp;amp;amp;lt;/style&amp;amp;amp;gt;
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the needed tags for CSS and JS
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $head-&amp;amp;amp;gt;getCssJsHtml() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  &amp;amp;amp;lt;/head&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  &amp;amp;amp;lt;body&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the Header HTML
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $header-&amp;amp;amp;gt;toHTML() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  	&amp;amp;amp;lt;div class="body"&amp;amp;amp;gt;
		&amp;amp;amp;lt;h1&amp;amp;amp;gt;How to add Magento blocks, CSS and Javascript to an external site&amp;amp;amp;lt;/h1&amp;amp;amp;gt;
		&amp;amp;amp;lt;p class="otherdata"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Written by &amp;amp;amp;lt;strong&amp;amp;amp;gt;Richard Feraro&amp;amp;amp;lt;/strong&amp;amp;amp;gt; | Posted on &amp;amp;amp;lt;strong&amp;amp;amp;gt;July 2, 2010&amp;amp;amp;lt;/strong&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;
		&amp;amp;amp;lt;p class="text"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis a quam massa. Nullam eget erat metus. Sed vel justo enim. Proin rhoncus laoreet bibendum. Nullam eget est nisi. In eget sem in erat sodales bibendum. Morbi gravida augue sed felis tincidunt a congue dui placerat. Aliquam purus risus, mollis sed ullamcorper non, viverra eu odio. Suspendisse nibh nisi, suscipit at viverra eu, convallis ac odio. Morbi nec sapien eros. Suspendisse nec nulla erat, ac porttitor neque. Integer felis dolor, sollicitudin sed semper et, imperdiet nec turpis. Proin blandit luctus egestas. &amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;
	&amp;amp;amp;lt;?php
		// Display the Footer HTML
		echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $footer-&amp;amp;amp;gt;toHTML() : '' ;
	?&amp;amp;amp;gt;
  &amp;amp;amp;lt;/body&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;/html&amp;amp;amp;gt;
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					This is a follow up post to a previous article I wrote on how to add products into Magento but this time the script includes custom options (attributes) of the product. I used Magento version 1.4.0.1 in this example. Just copy the whole script and save it as index.php.

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										This is a follow up post to a previous article I wrote on how to add products into Magento but this time the script includes custom options (attributes) of the product. I used Magento version 1.4.0.1 in this example. Just copy the whole script and save it as index.php.


<?php
require_once ("/var/www/your-magento-directory/app/Mage.php");
umask(0);

// Initialize Magento
Mage::app("default");

// You have two options here,
// "frontend" for frontend session or "adminhtml" for admin session
Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend"));

// get the current Magento cart
$cart = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart');

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

	// call the Magento catalog/product model
	$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
					 // set the current store ID
					 ->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
					 // load the product object
					 ->load($_POST['product']);
	
	// start adding the product
	// format: addProduct(<product id>, array(
	//         'qty' => <quantity>, 
	//         'super_attribute' => array(<attribute id> => <option id>) 
	//     ) 
	// )
	$cart->addProduct($product, array( 
			'qty' => $_POST['qty'], 
			'super_attribute' => array( key($_POST['super_attribute']) => $_POST['super_attribute'][525] )
			)
		);
		
	// save the cart
	$cart->save();
	
	// very straightforward, set the cart as updated
	Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->setCartWasUpdated(true);
	
	// redirect to index.php
	header("Location: index.php");

}else{
?>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div style="width: 400px; margin: auto">
	<h3>Very Nice T-shirt</h3>
	<hr>
	<div style="width: 180px; margin:auto; line-height: 30px">
		<form action="index.php" method="post">	
			Size: 
			<select name="super_attribute[525]">
				<option value="">Choose an option...</option>
				<option value="100">Small</option>
				<option value="99">Medium</option>
				<option value="98">Large</option>
			</select><br>
			Quantity: <input type="text" name="qty" size="1" value="1"> 
			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add This">
			<input type="hidden" name="product" value="119">
		</form>
	</div>
	<hr>
	<strong><?php echo "Cart Qty: ".$cart->getItemsQty();?></strong>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<?php } ?>
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					You want to extend WordPress’ functionality and decided to download some plugins found in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. After searching the repo, you’ve found two plugins that accomplishes the tasks you needed to implement in your blog. Downloading the plugins gives you two ZIP files that when double-clicked, shows you the contents in the […]

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										You want to extend WordPress’ functionality and decided to download some plugins found in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. After searching the repo, you’ve found two plugins that accomplishes the tasks you needed to implement in your blog. Downloading the plugins gives you two ZIP files that when double-clicked, shows you the contents in the following format:

plugin-a.zip
plugin-a-folder
---- plugin-a-main-file.php
---- plugin-a-readme.txt



plugin-b.zip
plugin-b-folder
---- plugin-b-subfolder
-------- plugin-b-main-file.php
-------- plugin-b-readme.txt


There are two ways to install a plugin. Option 1 is to unzip the file and upload the contents to wordpress_root/wp-content/plugins/ directory. Option 2 is to use the Add New -> Upload option found in the left panel bar of the administrative page of WordPress. Let’s assume the two plugins went through the two installation options.
Installing ‘plugin-a.zip’ using Option 1

Unzip the file
Upload the contents to wordpress_root/wp-content/plugins/
Login as admin and go to Plugins -> Installed.
Locate plugin and click Activate link.
Result:
Plugin activated.


Installing ‘plugin-a.zip’ using Option 2

Login as admin and go to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload
Locate the file plugin-a.zip by clicking the Browse button.
Click Install Now button.
Result:

	Unpacking the package?

Installing the plugin?

Plugin installed successfully.
	
Click Activate Plugin link.
Result:
Plugin activated.

Installing ‘plugin-b.zip’ using Option 1

Unzip the file
Upload the contents to wordpress_root/wp-content/plugins/
Login as admin and go to Plugins -> Installed.
Locate plugin and click Activate link.
Error: Plugin does not exists in the list.

Installing ‘plugin-b.zip’ using Option 2

Login as admin and go to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload
Locate the file plugin-b.zip by clicking the Browse button.
Click Install Now button.
Result:

	Unpacking the package?

Installing the plugin?

Plugin installed successfully.
	
Click Activate Plugin link.
WordPress ? Error
The plugin does not have a valid header.

Based on our testing, plugin-b.zip seems to fail on both methods of installation. To find out what is causing the error, we have to understand how the plugin installation works. Upon checking the core files I found this excerpt in get_plugins() function:
* WordPress only supports plugin files in the base plugins directory

 * (wp-content/plugins) and in one directory above the plugins directory

 * (wp-content/plugins/my-plugin). The file it looks for has the plugin data and

 * must be found in those two locations. It is recommended that do keep your

 * plugin files in directories.
The plugin data that the function is looking for can be found below:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Name Of The Plugin
Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates
Description: A brief description of the Plugin.
Version: The Plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
Author: Name Of The Plugin Author
Author URI: http://URI_Of_The_Plugin_Author
License: A "Slug" license name e.g. GPL2
*/
?>
So in order to properly install and activate a plugin, the following two conditions must be satisfied:

that a plugin main file (.php) must be placed in plugins root folder or in first-level subdirectory within plugins folder
and it should contain the necessary plugin data for identification/validation purposes

In the case of plugin-b.zip, although the main PHP file contains the needed plugin data, the validate_plugin() function returned an error since neither the file can be found or check if it contains the plugin data because it is placed in the second level subdirectory, a directory location in which the function is not designed to scan the content.
To fix the plugin-b.zip file, it needs to have the following content structure:
plugin-b.zip
plugin-b-folder
---- plugin-b-main-file.php
---- plugin-b-readme.txt


I hope this post will enlighten WordPress users who wants to maximize their blog’s potential 
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					Update (May 12, 2010): Mage Enabler is now available in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Get it here! It’s been a while since I posted my tweak that allows Mage object to be utilized within any WordPress installation. The tweak requires the blog owner to modify functions.php as stated in my post. I’m inspired by […]

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Update (May 12, 2010): Mage Enabler is now available in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Get it here!
It’s been a while since I posted my tweak that allows Mage object to be utilized within any WordPress installation. The tweak requires the blog owner to modify functions.php as stated in my post. I’m inspired by the feedback of the readers who used the tweak so I decided that a plugin that does the same thing should be made to prevent modifying the WordPress core files thus preventing the tweak to cause inconsistencies when an upgrade is necessary.
It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Mage Enabler plugin. Just copy the whole code snippet below and save it as mage-enabler.php. Place it inside a folder named mage-enabler together with the readme.txt available right after the code block. Please take time to read and follow the readme.txt instruction on how to install the plugin in your WordPress setup.
How to use the plugin?
To show you how the plugin works, I’ve decided to convert my example in my previous post by providing a single login page for both WordPress (subscriber) and Magento (customer). This setup assumes that the account credentials (subcriber/customer) in both database are the same and that the function collision problem between WordPress and Magento has been fixed. If you followed the functions.php update in that post, remove the block of code added at line 4123 to 4138.
Location of functions.php
path-to-your-root-htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php
Let’s start by opening the index.php file of the WordPress theme Twenty Ten. I’m using version 3.0-beta1 of WordPress in this article. You can replicate the same code update to any WordPress version and theme you have.
wordpress_root\wp-content\themes\twentyten\index.php
Copy the necessary codes (lines 16-18 and 22-40) to make it similar below:
<?php

/**
 * The main template file
 *
 * This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme
 * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).
 * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query.
 * E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.
 * Learn more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty Ten
 * @since 3.0.0
 */
 if(class_exists('Mage')){
 	Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
 }
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
<!-- Magento's custom greeting -->
<div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 1px solid #000; padding-bottom: 10px;">
<?php
if(class_exists('Mage')){
	$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session");
	$magento_message = "Welcome ";
	// Generate a personalize greeting
	if($session->isLoggedIn()){
		$magento_message .= $session->getCustomer()->getData('firstname').' ';
		$magento_message .= $session->getCustomer()->getData('lastname').'!';
	}else{
		$magento_message .= "Guest!";
	}

	echo $magento_message;
}
?>
</div>
<!-- End of Magento's custom greeting -->
The purpose of the code change above is to display a ?Welcome [customer name here]? when a customer is logged in, and show ?Welcome Guest? when they are not. Make sure that if you’re going to use any Magento related script in your code, always write it within the following if condition:
if(class_exists('Mage')){
	// Write your Magento codes here
}
This will prevent your page or theme files from breaking up if in case the plugin is deactivated, not working or if Mage.php can’t be found.
Open user.php file found at following address below:
path-to-your-root-htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/user.php
Locate the function wp_authenticate_username_password()  and find the similar code below. I found mine at line 108.
	if ( !wp_check_password($password, $userdata->user_pass, $userdata->ID) )
		return new WP_Error('incorrect_password', sprintf(__('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Incorrect password. <a href="%s" title="Password Lost and Found">Lost your password</a>?'), site_url('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword', 'login')));
Right after the code above, add the following code starting at line 111 to make it similar to the code below. This update allows us to run the login request of Magento within WordPress:
	if ( !wp_check_password($password, $userdata->user_pass, $userdata->ID) )
		return new WP_Error('incorrect_password', sprintf(__('<strong>ERROR</strong>: Incorrect password. <a href="%s" title="Password Lost and Found">Lost your password</a>?'), site_url('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword', 'login')));
	// Start Magento
	if(class_exists('Mage')){
		Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
		$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session");
		try{
			$login = $session->login($username, $password);
		}catch(Exception $e){
			// Do nothing
		}
	}
Finally, to call the Magento’s logout function, locate the file below and open it:
path-to-your-root-htdocs/wordpress/wp-login.php
Find the switch case statement at line 352. Add the necessary code to make it similar to the code below and save it:
switch ($action) {

case 'logout' :
	check_admin_referer('log-out');
	// Start Magento
	if(class_exists('Mage')){
		Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
		Mage::getSingleton("customer/session")->logout();
	}
	wp_logout();
Now test your WordPress by accessing the homepage at http://localhost/wordpress/. It should display the ‘Welcome Guest’ similar to the image below with a cookie named as ‘frontend’ in your Firebug cookie tab. That is your Magento cookie.

Clicking the login for WordPress redirects us to the login form like the one below while still showing the ‘frontend’ cookie. Since I have a customer with same credentials on both Magento (Customer) and WordPress (set as Subscriber), all I have to do is to use the username and password to login in the form below.

At this point, your Magento session should be running with an active customer session. To check if it does, go back to your homepage by clicking the top header text or going to http://localhost/wordpress/. It should display now the welcome message with your customer’s name.

For those who will use this plugin, let me know the version of WordPress and Magento you’re using so I can keep track of the list of versions in which this plugin is compatible. Until such time that the plugin is moved to the Official WordPress Plugin repository, I’ll accept and answer inquiries here thru comment/feedback form below. Mage Enabler is now available in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Get it here!
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					This post is an update for my blog entry on how to extend the Magento session to an external site but instead of using the version 1.2.1.2, I used the the latest stable version as of this writing which is version 1.4.0.1. The script below also implements the login() and logout() method the Magento way […]

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										This post is an update for my blog entry on how to extend the Magento session to an external site but instead of using the version 1.2.1.2, I used the the latest stable version as of this writing which is version 1.4.0.1. The script below also implements the login() and logout() method the Magento way as well as extracting the customer data (firstname and lastname) using getCustomer() method.


<?php
// Include Magento application
require_once ( "/var/www/your-magento-directory/app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);

// Initialize Magento
Mage::app("default");

// You have two options here,
// "frontend" for frontend session or "adminhtml" for admin session
Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend"));
$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session");

if(!isset($_REQUEST['action'])) {
	$_REQUEST['action'] = '';
}

switch($_REQUEST['action']){
	case "login":
		try{
			// Do login request.
			// I know, there are ways to sanitize the form.
			// But for simplicity's sake, let's assume we already
			// did our homework regarding the matter.
			$login = $session->login($_POST['username'],$_POST['password']);
		}catch(Exception $e){
			// Do something for the error message
			$message = $e->getMessage();
		}

		header("location: index.php");

		break;
	case "logout":
		// Execute the logout request
		$session->logout();
		header("location: index.php");

		break;
	default:
		// If the customer is not logged in, show login form
		// else, show logout link
		if(!$session->isLoggedIn()){
		?>
			<html>
			<head>
			<title>External Page for Magento</title>
			</head>
			<body>
			<h3>Login here</h3>
			<form method="POST" action="index.php">
			Username <input type="text" name="username" size="10" />
			Password <input type="password" name="password" size="10" />
			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="login" />
			<input type="hidden" name="action" value="login" />
			</form>
			</body>
			</html>
<?php
		}else{
			$firstname = $session->getCustomer()->getData('firstname');
			$lastname = $session->getCustomer()->getData('lastname');
			echo "Welcome ".$firstname." ".$lastname."!<br>";
			echo "You're currently logged in ";
			echo "[ <a href=\"index.php?action=logout\">click here to logout</a> ]";
		}
}
?>

Just copy the whole script and save it as index.php and run the script.
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