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The Magento site has recently switched from serving search results internally to using Google to provide the results. Whilst the Google results pages are a lot faster, we now miss the opportunity to search specific areas of the Magento site. In particular, its now a bit of a pain to track down a suitable module [...]

Just thought I would drop a quick blog and link to this nice succinct guide for setting up SSH to be able to log in via public key. SSH public key tutorial Using public keys offers you a more secure way of logging into an SSH server and also opens up the possiblity of being [...]

I seem to use this little snippet loads so I thought I would post it up for safe keeping: Toggling all checkboxes on a page: PLAIN TEXT CODE: <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleCheckboxes() { // written by Daniel P 3/21/07 // toggle all checkboxes found on the page     var inputlist = document.getElementsByTagName("input");     [...]

If you are getting a weird "cant' save customer" message in your local Magento development environment when trying to save a new account, but the bug is not on your live store, this might be the solution.. If like me you not only develop Magento sites but also use Zend Framework for other projects (which [...]

Here's a nice little PHP snippet for you. The next weekday as a DD/MM/YYYY string: PLAIN TEXT PHP: <?php if(preg_match('%(Sat|Sun|Fri)%', date('D'))){     $next_working_day = date('d/m/Y', strtotime('next Monday')); }else{     $next_working_day = date('d/m/Y', strtotime('+1 day')); } echo $next_working_day; ?> More Reading:Yii Setting up Authorisation – the Missing ManualPHP Force Download with Custom FilenameMagento 2 [...]

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If you are using PHP5 on Ubuntu and are having strange issues with missing functions including imagerotate() then you have come up against the problems created by the Ubuntu/Debian packagers decision not to include the GD library included with PHP5 but instead include a more purist version of the GD library which unfortunatley has some [...]

Just came across another useful keyword research tool. http://www.google.com/insights/search/ This is a bit like the google trends tool but with more detailed information. Handy helping to choose which variations of a search term to go for. More Reading:

Varien have just released a new tool to help repair Magento databases. The system works by taking a reference database (a clean installation of the same Magento version your store is running) and comparing this to your live store DB. It then goes through and repairs your store DB, fixing things like missing foreign keys [...]

Recently came across this article all about working with IE6. http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/definitive-guide-to-taming-the-ie6-beast/ Noted here for future reference and for anyone else looking for this. More Reading: