Fastostyle

Using SSH, go to the root directory of your Magento installation.

./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

Then

./pear upgrade-all

Then log in to your admin section, and refresh all caches.

We are excited to announce the availability of Magento CE Version 1.4.1.0 Stable for upgrade and download.

Some of the highlights of this release include: Enhanced PayPal integration (more info to follow), Change of Database structure of the Sales module to no longer use EAV, and much more.

To see a full list of features and fixed issues please visit our release notes page. Diff files are available here.

Please Note:  Since Database upgrade from EAV to flat sales might be a very heavy operation and can take up to several hours depending on number of orders and environment, please make sure to test the upgrade on a non-production environment and make sure the max_execution_time PHP option has appropriate large value that can handle this operation. We do NOT recommend upgrading a production installation of Magento directly. Please backup database and all files before upgrading. Please make sure to check file permissions before trying to upgrade through your Magento Connect Manager.We highly recommend disabling Magento cache before upgrading.

When the theme is downloaded, you should uncompress it and upload the theme and the Skin folders of the Magento installation through FTP under the corresponding locations:

magento_folder/app/design/frontend/default/

and

your_magento_folder/skin/frontend/default/

Then the two folders should be renamed to match. As an example we will install the Modern theme. The names of the folders are modern-theme and modern-skin. They both have been uploaded to the respective locations and renamed to modern. Because the installation of the script was performed in the public_html/magento folder, the corresponding locations are:

public_html/magento/app/design/frontend/default/modern/

and

public_html/magento/skin/frontend/default/modern/

When you upload the folders, navigate to your Magento admin area -> System -> Configuration -> Design. Click on the option Themes and enter the name of the theme in the Default, Layout, Templates and Skin fields. Picture Click on the button [Save] to install your new Magento theme.

Form not working after upgrade

It is a theme update thing. Replace yourtheme/yourtheme/templates/contacts/form.phtml with new base/default/templates/contacts/form.phtml

Or

Magento comes with built in function for retrieving URL paths. Function is called getBaseUrl() and its located under Mage class. However, function is not documented as it should be. Documentation only states that function retrieves $type parametar which is by default equal to “base”.

UPDATED: Included the following alternative method to add a home link with functional active state to the menu bar.

Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method)

Find the file called top.phtml in app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/template/catalog/navigation/ and make the following change:

<div class="header-nav-container">
 <div class="header-nav">
 <h4 class="no-display"><?php echo $this->__('Category Navigation:') ?></h4>
 <ul id="nav">
 <!-- ALTERNATIVE HOME BUTTON HACK -->
 <li class="home"><a href="/<?php echo $this->getUrl('')?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home') ?></a></li>
 <!-- ALTERNATIVE HOME BUTTON HACK -->
 <?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category):?>
 <?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
 <?php endforeach ?>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topLeftLinks') ?>
 </div>

Add the following to the menu.css file in skin/frontend/default/yourtheme/css/. This example is for a CMS home page which uses cms-home class in its body tag.

Show Hits at Joomla Category (Section) Pages with Each Item:

You want to show the hits for every article in category page too?

You need to add the following code in your category page:

<?php if ($this->params->get('show_hits')) : ?>
 <span class="articlehits">          
 (Read : <?php echo $this->item->hits; ?> times)
 </span>
<?php endif; ?>

You can change the "Read...times: " with anything you want...

Ideally your joomla template should have html override folder... i.e. you need to open this blog_item.php file, and add the above code where you want to display the hits.

your joomla template > html > com_content > category(section) > blog_item.php

This will work perfectly for you I am sure as we do this daily :-) If you do not know how to edit template or your current tempalte dont have the html override folder, let us know, and one of our coder will do implement this for you.

While I am updating magento 1.3 to magento 1.4, I have comparison :

Joomlart reported and outlined in the Blog Announcement, We are proud to release the preview of First JA Drupal Theme – JD Purity. JD Purity, at its core includes features similar to JA T3 Framework, and it would be the first template in Drupal arena, to offer native Mobile / Handheld support, Native RTL language support.

I knew  somebody have problems with toolbar.phtml when updating magento 1.4.0.1 ( don't have page navigation, duplicate toolbar...)  . Don't worry, You should remove \app\design\frontend\default\your templates name\layout\catalog.xml and remove app\design\frontend\default\your templates name\template\page\html\pager.phtml too .