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If you need to do a bulk find and replace operation on a load of files within a particular folder structure, for example when refactoring some of your code, then instead of trying to use your IDE you could give this little app a try. It’s called Regexxer: http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ And is in the Ubuntu repositories [...]

If you use Git for version control and you would like to also keep a track of your database schema (and possibly content though I'm not doing that due to potential file sizes / speed issues) then all you need to do is this simple step: 1. Go to your project folder and into the [...]

With some trepidation I decided that I really had to implement pagination into a Zend Framework project I am working on. Zend Framework is great, but some of the sections can be a little tricky to get your head around at first attempt. However, less than an hour after first looking at it, I have [...]

If you are browsing around a load of files on your object oriented project using the great features like right click -> go to definition, then you like me are probably also hankering after a nice backwards and forwards functionality so you can easily jump between places in your project. After a bit of looking [...]

If like me you miss the duplicate tab extension from Firefox 2, this little tip might cheer you up: Hold down [ctrl] then drag and drop an open tab onto the green + (or any free tab bar space) and you will clone that tab. Unfortunately this doesn't clone the history as well, so its [...]

Edmonds Commerce have been specialising in Magento for a while now. We have been involved in numerous Magento sites doing things ranging from setting up entire stores (including multi store) through to developing custom Magento modules for specific client requirements. If you are looking for a Magento Developer based in the UK, particularly the Leeds [...]

If your osCommerce checkout starts behaving badly and bits of info seem to go missing eg billing address then you should definitely try this fix before you tear your hair out completely. Most osCommerce installs store session information to a MySQL table called (suprisingly) sessions. Sometimes (I have only seen this twice on umpteen osCommerce [...]

If you are having a weird problem with your payment modules not saving the configuration when you edit them via the admin, try this to see if it fixes it: in admin/modules.php find: PLAIN TEXT PHP: while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { and replace it with PLAIN TEXT PHP: //while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { [...]

Jquery, arguably the most popular Javascript library has has a new version released. The release features some dramatic performance improvements, especially on widely used functions like .html() It also features a host of new functionality and improvements. For full details check out this page: http://jquery14.com/day-01/jquery-14 More Reading:JQuery Keeping Click Handler when Updating Content – Live [...]

My favourite PHP framework of the moment, Symfony, is now moving to my favourite version control system - Git. read more about it Symfony 2 Migration to Git Its only for the version 2 release, but its a nice step forwards. Github is a really nice system. The blog post also mentions this great online [...]