Lee Taylor, Author at Elias Interactive

About: How To Create a Magento Custom Module and A “Cash On Delivery” Payment Method
Who’s Interested: Informative to the semi-technically savvy
What: Custom Magento Payment Method

So I’ve seen more and more people raising awareness about desire to create a new payment method that allows orders to be paid via “cash on delivery” or “on pickup” by customer. Is this helpful to companies who sell to local clients? Absolutely. But if you were to click here for info on the diversity of payments, you’d know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

So in offering a solution, I’ll go ahead and outline what files need to be created and why with hopes to help educate the intigued learner in how to create a Magento Custom Module as well. The benefit in knowing how to do this is modifying existing Magento functionality in a way that it will not be overwritten upon a successful Magento upgrade.

Thus, I’ll jump in. The following 5 files will be created (relative to one’s Magento root folder):

config.xml

system.xml

PaymentMethod.php

mysql4-install-0.1.0.php

NewModule.xml

Here are their contents (with comments) and relative paths:

Hi All,

I knew it, you were wondering what jQuery tool we used across our site and how we customized it, right? Well, here’s one small way in how we added a bit to the core code.

While reading along in some of the forums (located here: http://www.ndoherty.com/blog/2007/10/29/coda-slider-11/), I noticed some are wanting an “auto-slide” feature for this thing (great job by the way Niall Doherty).

Here’s how you do it:


Modify the js code included in the page's header into this:
jQuery(window).bind("load", function() {
	jQuery("div#slider1").codaSlider()
	// jQuery("div#slider2").codaSlider()
	// etc, etc. Beware of cross-linking difficulties if using multiple sliders on one page.

	//call every __ seconds
	  var autoSlide = setInterval(function()
	  {
		$("#left-link").click();
		}, 10000);

});


And change line 63 (i believe, or corresponding line of code) of coda.slider.1.1.1.js:
jQuery(this).before(”<div class=’stripNavL’ id=’stripNavL” + j + “‘><a href=’#’ id=’left-link’>Left</a><\/div>”);

 
And there you have it.

Feel free to check us out here where we may be hosting some cool developments.
 
Hat's off to Niall Doherty and others who have put their efforts towards this sweet tool.

Magento: Create New Payment Method – Cash On Delivery

Making It Happen: Coda-Slider