Magento Dealer Locator Extension

How to: Dealer Locator extension for Magento, which was kind of an abstract overview of how to write the Dealers extension for Magento. After the article I got several feedback’s from people requesting the actual extension. Since I was very limited with time back then I kind of just ignored these requests. Lately however, I was able to spare some time to re-engage with articles on Inchoo.net. Since most of my articles are full blown extension, why make this one an exception
Below are several screen shots of the extension functionality, both from administration and front-end area.

 You can download the extension here.

Embedding WordPress Blog into OS Commerce Store

I published my first tutorial on embedding WordPress into OS Commerce. At the time, I was relatively new to working with OSC, so I was unaware of the many different template modules available for the software. Through the comments on my post, I learned that the OSC install that I was working with used the Basic Template Structure (BTS). However, people inquired about adjusting my tutorial for use with the Simple Template System (STS). Still more persons asked questions pertaining to default installs of OSC MS2.2.

 Keeping all of these comments in mind, this month I put together a
default install of OSC MS2.2 with an integrated WordPress blogWhat follows is a step-by-step tutorial (with the novice in mind) showing you how to do this. For the many people who are looking for an effective way to integrate OS Commerce and WordPress, I hope this tutorial proves to be a valuable and effective contribution to the OSC Community.

1. First, you will need to install OSC MS2.2 on your web server. This tutorial will assume that your OSC install is located in the default location for a typical OSC install: http://yourdomain.com/catalog/.
2. Next, install WordPress in the /catalog/ directory (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/catalog/wordpress/). Once you’ve installed WordPress, login to your WordPress admin and set Options > General > Blog address (URI) to “http://yourdomain.com/catalog/blog.php” (Note: If you would prefer to have your blog file named something other than blog.php, be sure to set this value accordingly and rename the file that you upload in step 4).
3. Now, just after the opening comments of the /catalog/includes/application_top.php file, add the following PHP code:

   // turn off WordPress themes and include the WordPress core:
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
   require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');

4. Next, download these two files (blog.php and stylesheet.blog.css) and place them in the root of your OSC install.