Magento events list in Community Edition 1.6.1.0
This article is helpful for learning about events, and observers in Magento.
To get the most current list of events, run this from the shell in the base dir of Magento (../app)
grep -rin -B2 -A2 ”Mage::dispatchEvent” app/* > events.txt
And here’s a list of the events in Magento Community 1.6.1.0
add_synchronize_message admin_permissions_role_prepare_save admin_session_user_login_failed admin_session_user_login_success admin_user_authenticate_after adminhtml_block_eav_attribute_edit_form_init adminhtml_block_html_before adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform adminhtml_cache_flush_all adminhtml_cache_flush_system adminhtml_cache_refresh_type adminhtml_catalog_category_tabs adminhtml_catalog_category_tree_is_moveable adminhtml_catalog_product_attribute_edit_prepare_form adminhtml_catalog_product_attribute_set_main_html_before adminhtml_catalog_product_attribute_set_toolbar_main_html_before adminhtml_catalog_product_edit_element_types adminhtml_catalog_product_edit_prepare_form adminhtml_catalog_product_edit_tab_attributes_create_html_before adminhtml_catalog_product_form_prepare_excluded_field_list adminhtml_cms_page_edit_tab_content_prepare_form adminhtml_cms_page_edit_tab_design_prepare_form adminhtml_cms_page_edit_tab_main_prepare_form adminhtml_cms_page_edit_tab_meta_prepare_form adminhtml_cmspage_on_delete adminhtml_controller_action_predispatch_start adminhtml_customer_orders_add_action_renderer adminhtml_customer_prepare_save adminhtml_customer_save_after adminhtml_product_attribute_types adminhtml_promo_catalog_edit_tab_main_prepare_form adminhtml_promo_quote_edit_tab_main_prepare_form adminhtml_sales_order_create_process_data adminhtml_sales_order_creditmemo_register_before adminhtml_widget_container_html_before adminhtml_widget_grid_filter_collection api_user_authenticated application_clean_cache before_save_message_queue bundle_product_view_config catalog_block_product_list_collection catalog_category_change_products catalog_category_prepare_save catalog_category_tree_init_inactive_category_ids catalog_category_tree_move_after catalog_category_tree_move_before catalog_controller_category_delete catalog_controller_category_init_before catalog_controller_product_delete catalog_controller_product_init catalog_controller_product_init_after catalog_controller_product_init_before catalog_controller_product_view catalog_helper_output_construct catalog_prepare_price_select catalog_product_attribute_update_before catalog_product_collection_apply_limitations_after catalog_product_collection_load_after catalog_product_collection_load_before catalog_product_compare_add_product catalog_product_compare_item_collection_clear catalog_product_compare_remove_product catalog_product_edit_action catalog_product_edit_form_render_recurring catalog_product_flat_prepare_columns catalog_product_flat_prepare_indexes catalog_product_flat_rebuild catalog_product_flat_update_product catalog_product_get_final_price catalog_product_import_finish_before catalog_product_is_salable_after catalog_product_is_salable_before catalog_product_new_action catalog_product_prepare_index_select catalog_product_status_update catalog_product_to_website_change catalog_product_type_grouped_price catalog_product_upsell catalog_product_view_config catalog_product_website_update catalog_product_website_update_before catalogindex_get_minimal_price catalogindex_plain_reindex_after catalogindex_prepare_price_select catalogrule_after_apply catalogrule_before_apply catalogsearch_index_process_complete catalogsearch_index_process_start catalogsearch_reset_search_result category_move checkout_allow_guest checkout_cart_add_product_complete checkout_cart_product_add_after checkout_cart_product_update_after checkout_cart_save_after checkout_cart_save_before checkout_cart_update_item_complete checkout_cart_update_items_after checkout_cart_update_items_before checkout_controller_onepage_save_shipping_method checkout_multishipping_controller_success_action checkout_multishipping_refund_all checkout_onepage_controller_success_action checkout_quote_destroy checkout_quote_init checkout_submit_all_after checkout_type_multishipping_set_shipping_items checkout_type_onepage_save_order checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after clean_catalog_images_cache_after clean_media_cache_after clear_expired_quotes_before cms_controller_router_match_before cms_page_get_available_statuses cms_page_prepare_save cms_page_render cms_wysiwyg_config_prepare cms_wysiwyg_images_static_urls_allowed controller_action_layout_render_before controller_action_layout_render_before_ controller_action_nocookies controller_action_noroute controller_action_postdispatch controller_action_postdispatch_adminhtml controller_action_predispatch controller_front_init_before controller_front_init_routers controller_front_send_response_after controller_front_send_response_before controller_response_redirect core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_after core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before core_block_abstract_to_html_after core_block_abstract_to_html_before core_collection_abstract_load_after core_collection_abstract_load_before core_layout_block_create_after core_layout_update_updates_get_after core_locale_set_locale core_session_abstract_add_message core_session_abstract_clear_messages custom_quote_process customer_address_format customer_customer_authenticated customer_login customer_logout customer_register_success customer_registration_is_allowed customer_session_init eav_collection_abstract_load_before enterprise_giftcardaccount_add gift_options_prepare_items google_checkout_discount_item_price googlecheckout_block_link_html_before googlecheckout_checkout_before googlecheckout_create_order_before googlecheckout_save_order_after http_response_send_before load_customer_quote_before log_log_clean_after log_log_clean_before log_visitor_collection_load_before model_delete_after model_delete_before model_delete_commit_after model_load_after model_load_before model_save_after model_save_before model_save_commit_after on_view_report order_cancel_after payment_form_block_to_html_before payment_info_block_prepare_specific_information payment_method_is_active paypal_prepare_line_items persistent_session_expired prepare_catalog_product_collection_prices prepare_catalog_product_index_select prepare_catalog_product_price_index_table resource_get_tablename review_controller_product_init review_controller_product_init_after review_controller_product_init_before review_review_collection_load_before rss_catalog_category_xml_callback rss_catalog_new_xml_callback rss_catalog_notify_stock_collection_select rss_catalog_review_collection_select rss_catalog_special_xml_callback rss_catalog_tagged_item_xml_callback rss_order_new_collection_select rss_wishlist_xml_callback rule_environment_collect sales_convert_order_item_to_quote_item sales_convert_order_to_quote sales_convert_quote_address_to_order sales_convert_quote_address_to_order_address sales_convert_quote_item_to_order_item sales_convert_quote_payment_to_order_payment sales_convert_quote_to_order sales_model_service_quote_submit_after sales_model_service_quote_submit_before sales_model_service_quote_submit_failure sales_model_service_quote_submit_success sales_order_creditmemo_cancel sales_order_creditmemo_refund sales_order_invoice_cancel sales_order_invoice_pay sales_order_invoice_register sales_order_item_cancel sales_order_payment_cancel sales_order_payment_cancel_creditmemo sales_order_payment_cancel_invoice sales_order_payment_capture sales_order_payment_pay sales_order_payment_place_end sales_order_payment_place_start sales_order_payment_refund sales_order_payment_void sales_order_place_after sales_order_place_before sales_quote_add_item sales_quote_address_discount_item sales_quote_config_get_product_attributes sales_quote_item_collection_products_after_load sales_quote_item_qty_set_after sales_quote_item_set_product sales_quote_product_add_after sales_quote_remove_item sales_sale_collection_query_before salesrule_rule_condition_combine salesrule_rule_get_coupon_types salesrule_validator_process sendfriend_product store_delete store_group_save tag_tag_product_collection_load_after tax_rate_data_fetch tax_settings_change_after wishlist_add_item wishlist_add_product wishlist_item_collection_products_after_load wishlist_items_renewed wishlist_product_add_after wishlist_share wishlist_update_item
Nathan Haskins is discussing.
Nathan Haskins 9:35 am on February 6, 2012 Permalink
There’s more events then listed above.. just found one called ‘controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_index’