I thought I’d share a quick and simple method to improving loading times when extracting JSON data from an API within a Magento build. For one particular client, this improved loading times considerably and in some cases by over two seconds. $cache_key = ‘json_feed_name’; $cache_tag = ‘homepage’; if ( false !== ($list = Mage::app()->getCache()->load($cache_key)) ) […]

Here is a small snippet of code, which can be dropped into a helper.php file. function message_alert($timeout = 0) { $return = ”; //If has errors if( !empty(Session::get(‘errors’)) ){ $return .= ‘<div class=”fixed-bottom alert alert-danger mb-0″><div class=”container”> <ul class=”mb-0″>’; foreach ( Session::get(‘errors’)->all() as $error ): $return .= ‘<li>’. $error .'</li>’; endforeach; $return .= ‘</ul> </div></div>’; […]