Show category block on a magento page via cms

Add this snipp to any page’s body in the cms to show a category’s items on that page. “category_id” being the id of the category, duyee.

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”4″template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

i have a website in magento which contain url like mydomain/Parent-category/sub-category but i wnat to this URL for sub-category Like mydomain/Subcategory.. how can i remove main-category from the URL of sub-category in magento. i want URL like [URL]

Magento configuration is spread among dozens of .xml files. So this is a reasonable question – how does Magento operate all these files and find proper settings for each particular extension?

Let’s refresh some key points of the Magento structure

• Magento is a modular system, in which functionality is located in separate modules.

• There are 3 code pools in Magento – local, community and core.

• The structure of each module includes app/code/[codePool]/Namespace/Modulename/config.xml (this file contains all basic module settings) and app/etc/modules/Namespace_Modulename.xml (this file contains information about code pool and extension activation flag).

• Global settings for Magento installation, including database connection data and admin panel address, are stored in app/etc/config.xml и app/etc/local.xml.

Refer to our previously posted certification-related articles: Magento Codepools and Magento Module Structure

If we trace the code performance starting from index.php, we’ll get the following outcome:

If code written for Magento is executed outside of Magento—as occurs when running unit tests—Magento’s normal startup process (which registers its autoload functionality) is not run. Without the autoloader in place, the first time PHP encounters a request to initialize a class which it doesn’t recognize, it will error out with a “class not found” error. Also, without Magento’s startup process running, PHP doesn’t know about the Mage family of singleton methods (e.g. Mage::getModel(), Mage::helper()) which are commonly used to create class instances.

Solution

Include/require (perhaps using require_once) app/Mage.php in the code you execute from outside of Magento. When Mage.php is included, the code in that file will register Magento’s autoloader with PHP. Also, Mage.php contains the method definitions for the Mage singleton methods.

If you ever need to programmatically clear Magento’s shopping cart, use the snippet of code below. If you need to clear the user’s entire session, including the shopping cart, shipping information, billing information and chosen payment methods, please refer to the snippet further below.

Clear shopping cart

foreach( Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getItemsCollection() as $item ){
    Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->removeItem( $item->getId() )->save();
}