Magento Connect exceeds 4000 listed extensions

I just noticed that MagentoConnect has over 4000 extensions listed… way to go Magento!

Magento Connect’s Top 10 Contributors

Did you ever want to know who’s contributing the most extensions to Magento Connect? Have a look below.

	Image	Latest Extension	Price	Developer	Extensions
1.		sports	180.00	templatemonster	232
2.		CleanUp	99.00	VisualFrames	137
3.		Magesupport HandBag Theme	109.00	magesupport	129
4.		Image Slider	69.00	aheadworks	90
5.		Rock Star Premium Theme	250.00	TemplatesMaster	77
6.		Easy Ajax Cart	79.00	Mage-World	76
7.		Product Social Media	99.00	magestore	60
8.		HelloDisplay Theme	79.00	HelloThemes.com	59
9.		MT Moscho fashion themes	80.00	Magenthemes	53
10.		Magik Handbags	99.00	MagentoMagik	50

Last Updated: 05/04/2011

See the full list here

magentopop – my new magento focused blog

I’ve finally decided to organize and download all my magento experiences into one place. For now it will be over at magentopop.wordpress.com until I get it onto a more permanent home at openstepmedia.com.

Magento – get at $_POST inside module Observer.php

Interesting dilemma, the module observer is getting triggered off a _before_save event, so the $observer passes in the save event that is internal to magento, not off a controller action. So how to get at the $_REQUEST variables? Well… the right way, I mean, of course we could go over Magento’s head to the global vars. But let’s keep things nice and neat.

To get at the request variable use this:

Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getParam('default_shipping', false);

Needless to say, I’ve been playing around, customizing the address book feature of magento.