To disable Magento upgrade notifications from the admin, do as follow:
1) Remove from app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/main.xml two lines:
<block type="adminhtml/notification_window" name="notification_window" as="notification_window" acl="system/adminnotification/show_toolbar" template="notification/window.phtml" />
and
<block type="adminhtml/notification_toolbar" name="notification_toolbar" as="notification_toolbar" acl="system/adminnotification/show_toolbar" template="notification/toolbar.phtml"></block>
2) Change following code in app/etc/modules/Mage_All.xml
<Mage_AdminNotification>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>core</codePool>
<depends>
<Mage_Core />
</depends>
</Mage_AdminNotification>
into
<Mage_AdminNotification>
<active>false</active>
<codePool>core</codePool>
<depends>
<Mage_Core />
</depends>
</Mage_AdminNotification>
Magento update notifications should now be disabled. Tested in Magento 1.3.2.4
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On the Magento cart page, to display the product sku along with the product name and details:
edit the pag: app/design/default/yourtheme/template/checkout/cart/item/default.phtml
The following code will add the sku to the cart page. It will also add custom option sku definitions;
<div><em>Product #:</em> <?php if (is_object($this->getChildProduct())):
echo $this->getChildProduct()->getSku();
else:
echo $_item->getSku();
endif; ?>
</div>
Here is a sample of where the code should go:
<?php $_item = $this->getItem()?>
<tr>
<td><a href=”<?php echo $this->getDeleteUrl() ?>”><img src=”<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(‘images/btn_trash.gif’) ?>” width=”16″ height=”16″ alt=”<?php $this->__(‘Remove item’)?>” /></a></td>
<td><a href=”<?php echo $this->getProductUrl() ?>”><img src=”<?php echo $this->getProductThumbnail()->resize(75); ?>” alt=”<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getProductName()) ?>” width=”75″ /></a></td>
<td>
<h4><a href=”<?php echo $this->getProductUrl() ?>”><?php echo $this->getProductName() ?></a></h4>
<!– Code goes here to display directly under the product name–>
<div><em>Product #:</em> <?php if (is_object($this->getChildProduct())):
echo $this->getChildProduct()->getSku();
else:
echo $_item->getSku();
endif; ?>
</div>
<!– item custom options –>
The product sku will now be displayed on the cart page along with the added products.
Regarding the use of accounts and forcing customers to check out as guests, the folowing solution works in 1.3.x.
Edit: /app/design/frontend/default/detault/layout/checkout.xml
Comment out the reference to the “checkout.onepage.login” addLink under the checkout_onepage_index section.
<!-- <block type="checkout/onepage_login" name="checkout.onepage.login" as="login" template="checkout/onepage/login.phtml"/> -->
Edit: /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/checkout/onepage.phtml , replace the Script section at the bottom of the page, add after the </ol>.
<input type="hidden" name="checkout_method" id="login:guest" checked="checked" value="guest"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var accordion = new Accordion('checkoutSteps', '.head', true);
<?php if($this->getActiveStep()): ?>
accordion.openSection('opc-billing');
<?php endif ?>
var checkout = new Checkout(accordion,{
progress: '<?php echo $this->getUrl('checkout/onepage/progress') ?>',
review: '<?php echo $this->getUrl('checkout/onepage/review') ?>',
saveMethod: '<?php echo
$this->getUrl('checkout/onepage/saveMethod') ?>',
failure: '<?php echo $this->getUrl('checkout/cart') ?>'}
);
var cb = $("login:guest");
cb.checked = true;
checkout.setMethod();
//]]>
</script>
That will remove the register section from the checkout accordion.
To remove
