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I came across this issue to begin with using the Wildcardbi_RulePriceAttribute module to be able to specify custom prices for specific customer groups (in this case, wholesale/trade pricing) without having to setup an entire new store view for it.

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I’ve come across a handful of sites now that either do (or want to) automatically add a default shipping charge to the cart when it’s created or updated. As I had a bit of trouble finding a method for this, I thought I’d post my exact method here for usefulness and future reference.

In order to get this working, you need a module which hooks into the event ‘sales_quote_save_before’. We’ll use the namespace BTS.

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I’ve come across several places where I’ve needed to get the current category (or information from it) in one way or another. Some blocks have the ability to do this:

$_category = $this->getCurrentCategory();

However, if you need to get the current category in a block (or model, helper, whichever) where this method isn’t present, then we can simply do this instead:

$_category = Mage::registry('current_category');

They both return exactly the same object (unless overridden, that is Mage_Catalog_Model_Category).

Caveat: If you are in a block that doesn’t have access to ‘getCurrentCategory’ nor is Mage::registry(‘current_category’) defined (for example, the product list being applied to the home/front page) you can load by category ID if known. In this example, the Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List has been applied to the front page, so you’d need to do this instead:

// Check for $_category's existance/status after initial block load, and grab the category ID from the object's parameters/attributes.
// Replace $this->getCategoryId() with a category ID, whether defined statically or retrieved from another method.
if (!is_object($_category))
     $_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($this->getCategoryId());

Of course, this ends up being slightly different depending on where you need to get the category object.