If you use the Magento event / observer system for extending Magento (if you don't you should) then you will find this little script handy for parsing out all of the events in the latest (eg Magento 1.4) version of Magento. This is a Linux shell script so either use it on your server or [...]
http://symfony-reloaded.org/, a quick run down on the latest version of Symfony. It's looking really good, especially exciting is the promise of massive performance advantages (3 times faster than Zend!). More Reading:Yii Setting up Authorisation – the Missing ManualSymfony Training UKSymfony Developer UKPlaying with SymfonyPHP Force Download with Custom FilenameMagento 2 – Key Points for Developers!Magento [...]
If you have any issues with the default Flash based image uploader for the Magento admin, check out this extension which replaces it with a much slicker, faster and less - well flash - image uploader. http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1756/no-flash-uploader nice More Reading:Magento Media Save Path Dispretion MethodMagento 2 – Key Points for Developers!Magento 2 Source Code Available [...]
If you use table prefixes (you should) but you need to get the name of a table without having to hardcode in the table prefix, use this little snippet: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $tableName = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getTableName('catalog_product_option'); More Reading:Magento 2 – Key Points for Developers!Magento 2 Source Code Available on GitHubAdding Confirm E-mail Address Field to Magento [...]
A nice little shell script for quickly install WordPress on Linux:: #!/bin/bash wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip unzip latest.zip cp -rf ./wordpress/* ./ More Reading:Horse Transport Wordpress CustomisationWordpress Bash Install ScriptMagento Wins Best of Open Source Enterprise Software
1] Download the latest version of ( XAMPP For Linux ) here 2] Install it. To install lampp, extract and put in /opt directory. Remember to extract it as ROOT. 3] Download Development package from same site. 4] Extract it, copy and paste "include" folder from Development package to /opt/lampp directory. ( This package would [...]
If you need to work collaboratively on some Javascript then check out JS Bin It's just like pastebin, but with Javascript compatability, handy. More Reading:Adding Confirm E-mail Address Field to Magento Frontend FormsGot the Insecure Content on a Secure HTTPs Page Problem – Easy SolutionConsole Log not working in Magento + solutionPHP SimpleXML CData not [...]
If your shiny new Magento 1.4 is displaying this error message at the bottom of the page then you might want to apply this fix. Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0 The solution is to comment out a small section of code in app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Cache.php line 180 PLAIN TEXT [...]
The latest and greatest version of Magneto has just been released (last Friday). This release includes some great new features like WYSIWYG editors on the admin side, performance improvements and loads more. Here's what has been added: Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard) Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new [...]