Magento: Product image Deep Zoom Extension

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/mygento-deepzoom.html

JQuery library for Magento

 jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/utilities/developer-tools/mygento-jquery-library-and-powerful-plugins.html

Magento Custom Admin Theme

http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/custom-admin-theme-in-magento/

Just create new theme and place modified files and new files only instead of all the stuff from default theme.

Magento: Free banner extensions

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/multiple-banner-extension.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/banner-slider-3912.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/simple-banners.html

Magento: Programtically Cancel the coupon code on the shopping cart

$quote = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote();
$oldCouponCode = $quote->getCouponCode();
if (strlen($oldCouponCode)) {
    $quote->setCouponCode('')->collectTotals()->save();
}

Delete Test data from Magento

Delete Test Products from Magento:
http://www.sonassi.com/knowledge-base/magento-kb/mass-delete-products-in-magento/


Delete Test Orders from Magento:
http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/delete-test-orders-in-magento/

Magento Database Diagram and tables:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/2_-_magento_concepts_and_architecture/magento_database_diagram
http://www.magereverse.com/


Delete all products:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/20553/

Best PHP IDE

http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/phpunit.html
http://netbeans.org/features/php/index.html

Image resizing and croping using PHP

Below to sample scripts i found useful to resize and crop the images using PHP. Both resources doing the samething.

http://forrst.com/posts/PHP_Resize_Crop_Image_to_Best_Fit-sel
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/image-resizing-made-easy-with-php/

Simple PHP script to resize the images:
http://www.kavoir.com/2009/01/php-resize-image-and-store-to-file.html


Image upload and crop using JQuery and PHP:
http://www.9lessons.info/2011/06/image-upload-and-cropping-with-php-and.html
http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop/
 

Face detection using PHP

We need to install Facedetection, OpenCV PHPextensions to use these functions to find the coordinates of the faces. Go through the following resouces for more information.
http://corpocrat.com/2009/08/18/automatic-face-detection-with-php-in-linux/
https://github.com/infusion/PHP-Facedetect
http://www.xarg.org/project/php-facedetect/

You can detect face without any PHP extension using below Script:
http://devlup.com/programming/php/face-detection-using-php/1140/
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2010/07/06/php-face-detection-class/

http://www.codediesel.com/algorithms/face-detection-in-images-using-php/

http://svay.com/blog/face-detection-in-pure-php-without-opencv/

Create, Design And Deliver Your Email Newsletter

How To Create, Design And Deliver Your Email Newsletter:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-create-design-and-deliver-your-email-newsletter/

Email clients and supporting designs:
http://www.email-standards.org/

Test credit card numbers for test mode integration

Here is a list of sample/dummy/test credit card numbers, which are safe to use when you test credit card functionality on a website or application that involves credit card transactions. These credit card numbers validate properly but they are not actually in use.
American Express:
378282246310005
3111111111111117
343434343434343
370000000000002
340000000000009
371449635398431
378734493671000
Visa:
4111111111111111
4007000000027
4222222222222
4012888888881881
MasterCard:
5105105105105100
5111111111111118
5454545454545454
5500000000000004
5555555555551111
5555555555554444
Discover:
6011111111111117
6011000000000004
6011000990139424
6011601160116611
6111111111111116

JQuery Video and Audio players

The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library
http://www.jplayer.org/latest/demos/

Get Events from Facebook

http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/Facebook-Programming-API-Events-P852.html

Magento: Get current Router name

Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName()

Add Remove class name to parent node based on the selected country has states or not

Add class to parent node based on the selected country has states (dropdown) or not (textbox)

Open the file js\varien\form.js and navigate to _checkRegionRequired: function()

Add the following code to add new class name to the parent tag
        
                if (!currentElement.parentNode.hasClassName('hide-select-design')) {
                    currentElement.parentNode.addClassName('hide-select-design');
                }

Add the following code to remove new class name from the parent tag
                if (currentElement.parentNode.hasClassName('hide-select-design')) {
                    currentElement.parentNode.removeClassName('hide-select-design');
                }