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Mastering Magento Theme Design

By : Andrea Sacca
Book Image

Mastering Magento Theme Design

By: Andrea Sacca

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Magento Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Overviewing the System.xml fields


If you take a look at the code created previously, you can see that the fields are grouped inside the <fields></fields> tags, and each field includes many parts; let's explain them.

The following code is an example of single input field:

<input_field translate="label">
  <label>My Input Field: </label>
  <comment>This is a comment</comment>
  <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
  <sort_order>20</sort_order>
  <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
  <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
  <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
</input_field>

The elements used in the code are explained as follows:

  • <input_field>: This is the unique node name of the option

  • <Label>: This is the title of the field, displayed on the left

  • <Comment>: This is useful to provide extra descriptions or information for the store manager

  • <frontend_type>: This is the type...