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Magento’s compiler feature to place all the files in one place.
To remedy this issue, Magento core class should be included as follow.

<?php

if(defined('COMPILER_INCLUDE_PATH'))
    require 'Mage_Customer_Model_Customer.php';
else
    require 'Mage/Customer/Model/Customer.php';

class Mycompany_Mymodule_Model_Customer extends Mage_Customer_Model_Customer
{
    ...
}

While developing on on Magento, it is a good way to manage variables using htaccess file based on the domain being used. e.g. we can set developer mode for locally developed site based on domain. This reduces possibility of accidently enabling developer mode on production environment.

Here is the code to programmatically create a new attribute of yes/no type, in custom module’s setup.php file.

Today I was setting up Magento with sample data and the default admin wouldn’t let me in the Magento backend. And because I was on windows I was unable to get the email from ‘Forgor your password link’ Here is what I did to unlock the admin user. The file ‘app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\IndexController.php’ contains the ‘forgotpasswordAction’ which [...]