change product image on hover in catalog page Magento

To show different image on hover on magento product category page  you have to change the small code in the list.phtml file located at

app->design->frontend->default->your theme->template->catalog->product->list.pthml

and in this file around line 58 you will see something like this

       <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" class="product-image"><img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(135); ?>" width="135" height="135" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" /></a>
      
       just search for this and replace it with
      
        <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" class="product-image"><img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->constrainOnly(FALSE)->keepAspectRatio(TRUE)->keepFrame(FALSE)->resize(135); ?>" width="135" height="135" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" onmouseover="this.src='<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'thumbnail')->constrainOnly(FALSE)->keepAspectRatio(TRUE)->keepFrame(FALSE)->resize(135) ?>';" onmouseout="this.src='<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->constrainOnly(FALSE)->keepAspectRatio(TRUE)->keepFrame(FALSE)->resize(135) ?>';" />
       
       
        that’s all we need to do
        note in list file there are two modes list and grid above will work for list mode to make it work in grid mode change it around line 95 in same file
       
       

multiple website

i have recently configure a multi store for my client and i want to share this with you and in a simple way

 setting up multiple stores in Magento is somehow easy but configuring up multiple website in Magento is a bit difficult task :).

This step-by-step tutorial will guide you to do so.

I suppose that you have installed Magento in folder named ‘magento’. So, your website URL will be http://yourwebsite.com/magento/

- Create Website, Store, and Store View

- Create Website
- Go to System –> Manage Stores
- Create Website
- Name = My Website
- Code = mywebsite
- Sort Order = 10
- Save Website

- Create Store
- Go to System -> Manage Stores
- Create Store
- Website = My Website
- Name = Main Store
- Root Category = Root Catalog

- Create Store View
- Go to System -> Manage Stores
- Create Store View
- Store = My Website -> Main Store
- Name = English
- Code = English
- Status = Enabled
- Sort Order = 10

- Change Link URL
- Go to System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Web
- Change ‘Current Configuration Scope’ to ‘My Website’
- Unsecure -> Base URL = http://yourwebsite.com/magento/
- Unsecure -> Base Link URL = http://yourwebsite.com/magento/mywebsite/

- Change Theme (Optional: If you want different design for your new website)

- Suppose your new design template and skin folder is named ‘mywebsite’
- Copy ‘mywebsite’ template folder to magento/app/design/frontend/default/
- Copy ‘mywebsite’ skin folder to magento/skin/frontend/default/

- Go to System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Design
- Change ‘Current Configuration Scope’ to ‘My Website’
- Themes -> Default = ‘mywebsite’
- Uncheck ‘Use Default’
- Save Config

- Create a new folder named ‘mywebsite’ inside ‘magento’ folder.

- Copy index.php of magento folder into mywebsite folder.

- Open index.php of mywebsite folder.
- Change $compilerConfig = ‘includes/config.php’; to $compilerConfig = ‘../includes/config.php’;
- Change $mageFilename = ‘app/Mage.php’; to $mageFilename = ‘../app/Mage.php’;
- Change Mage::run(); to Mage::run(‘mywebsite’,'website’);

- Copy .htaccess file from magento folder to mywebsite folder

Finally, you have created a new website for your magento shop. Your base installation can be browsed by http://yourwebsite.com/magento/ and your new website can be browsed by http://yourwebsite.com/magento/mywebsite/

install language pack in magento

In magento to make multilanguage store work properly  we need to add a language pack in magento by default it has only english language for frontend 

to make it work we have to download the language pack and upload it to root directory

we can download the language pack from this url http://www.magentocommerce.com/translations here select your desired language and download it . In which you willl get a app folder , just upload it to root directory or merge into your app folder  and now go to admin -> system-> configuration -> you will see something like this

now click on locale tab under general  you will see something like this 

now in locale select box choose your language for which you have upload the language pack and its done .

create multilanguage store in magento

Magento has a very rich feature of multi language and normally the international sites which need to sell there products internationally needs to give information to the users in there language , for this magento has a inbuilt multi language store feature So lets see how we can do this . I assume that you have a fresh install magento now go to sytem->managestores and than click on it

and than you will see like this

now click on createstoreview tab in the right corner and you will see something like this

in the name field === give the name to your view like spanish, German etc

and in code field ==== give it like en or gm which will be useful for in files to distinguish the languages

set status === enable

and now save it now go to frontend and check in header a language switcher will be in right corner

The requested URL /magento/index.php/install/ was not found on this server. Solved

to fix this issue all you have to do is to open your  htacess file in magento folder in your favourite text editor and in the end of file just add

AcceptPathInfo On   and thats it