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PHP PDO Fetch Object and Columns with Spaces

Joseph Edmonds — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:39:35 +0000

If you use PDO and Fetch Object, it might not be clear exactly to access row properties that are based on columns that have spaces. I know I searched for things like: PDO Columns with spaces PDO::fetchObject spaces and PDO spaces in column names I eventually found what I was looking for in the depths [...]

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Payment has failed… Magento and SagePay CE Error + Solution

Ross Mitchell — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:58:25 +0000

I recently upgraded a magento store and installed the Sage Pay Suite CE module from EbizMarks. The following error came up twice during the testing of the module, once in the frontend and once in the admin. Payment has failed, please reload checkout page and try again. Your card has not been charged The error [...]

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Using Magento Database Migrations to Track Configuration Changes

Joseph Edmonds — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:11:44 +0000

Often when working on a Magento site, there is a requirement to build custom functionality or implement new themes etc but to finish the job, the final step will be to perform some admin configuration. This manual step can introduce the possiblity of human error if a step is missed or not performed exactly correctly. [...]

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Magicento has a super quick way to enable Template Path Hints in Magento

Kenneth — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:58:20 +0000

Magento’s Template Path Hints feature can be super handy for working out which templates are in use, but logging into the Admin, navigating to System, Configuration, Developer, Debug, Change Store Scope, Change to Yes, Press Save, Reload is an arduous process. So much so that often it’s easier to just suss it out from the [...]

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Testing a Magento site in maintenance mode

Kenneth — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:15:23 +0000

Often you’ll have your site in maintenance mode, but obviously before you show your changes to the world you’ll want to check the site over. The best way to set Magento into Maintenance Mode is to add a maintenance.flag file to the web root, and there’s a snippet of code in Magento’s index.php which handles [...]

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How to Setup Balsamiq for Fast Mockup Process

Kristaps Romanovskis — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:12:37 +0000

Here at Edmonds Commerce when we are working on Magento design projects we use MyBalsamiq on-line mockup tool which We’ve found as one of the greatest in terms of support provided and especially for – live linking, which allows you to create live mockups in order to deliver the overall feel of navigation and User [...]

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Prestashop Debug Mode using the Magento Environment Variable Method

Joseph Edmonds — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:14:30 +0000

Magento developers are no doubt familiar with the concept of defining a server environment variable MAGE_IS_DEVELOPER_MODE so that when running Magento locally it is always in developer mode but there is no chance of accidently deploying a live site in developer mode. This little trick will allow you to use the same environment variable to [...]

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Apache Mod Rewrite and Escaped Hashes (and other characters)

Joseph Edmonds — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:57:49 +0000

If you are having issues with mod rewrite apparently abandoning sections of variables after encoded hashes then this could be your solution. The use case is particularly clear when using mod_rewrite in front of a search engine (such as Solr which I am really enjoying working with at the moment). Imagine someone search for a [...]

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Apache Mod Rewrite Escaped Slashes Problem + Solution

Joseph Edmonds — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:05:20 +0000

As part of our Magento SEO service, the first thing we do is to make sure there are no issues with the crawlability and general health of the clients web site. Whilst working on the Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors for a client I noticed one specific and intruiging problem for which I couldn’t immediately [...]

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Magento Category Move Error Exception General error: 1205 + solution

Ross Mitchell — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:44:14 +0000

There is a problem in Magento that when you try to move a category by dragging it in the admin, it can cause the above error, whilst causing the rest of the site to slow down. This is caused by the system trying to re-index every product within the space of a transaction. An easy [...]

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