The php simpleXML object is my preferred way of working with XML, but it has some unusual quirks that can drive you up the wall. One of these is that, by default, it will not read CDATA within an XML file, and will just leave the node blank. If you need to access this data [...]
Well known is how Loaded Commerce/CRELoaded protect their google banners they wack on all opensource versions of their code. Once you have removed the footer in the current version though, it checks the output buffer and you will find it after the closing html tag of your page. The function that does this is cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(); [...]
Due to our load-balancing router being a little “harsh” on closing connections that appear to be unused, ssh often sits and hangs. Using a standard ssh config option though we can set a server keep-alive (on the ssh client, which also keeps sshfs alive) In the “~/.ssh/config” file, simply adding the following keeps the connection [...]
One of the things that can catch you out if you have a paranoid server admin is that various magento extensions will contact external servers (such as SagePay or Mailchimp). If the server admin has blocked outbound web traffic (to avoid DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic), these extensions will slow you down at every [...]
When migrating one server to another you often hit bumps in the road. Todays was transferring a database from one server to another. During this standard procedure I found that the restored database was missing a few tables. Irritating as Magento doesn’t like missing tables. Digging down into the backup and extracting the first missing [...]
If you use Netbeans along with Xdebug to facilitate step through debugging when coding PHP then you may come across this issue. It’s possible to get it into a semi working scenario where you can have working breakpoints and see variable values but you have no idea which bit of code you are actually stepped [...]
If you are getting a little bit frustrated trying to figure out why the admin configuration for the number of products to display on a page and the options in the products per page drop down are not working then this is quite possibly your soluiton. The template file in question is in catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml You [...]
Reducing prices Falkenhaug Holding BV's website is currently being developed so that they can have a page of where sale items are listed and reduced automatically when they have decided to put a sale on their products. Latest fashion trends from Amsterdam Falkenhaug Holding BV are e-commerce fashion retailers in Amsterdam, selling their fashion ranges [...]
I've recently had to upgrade a shop that lists products on amazon. They wanted to automatically add new products and keep their inventory up to date, so I set up a feed generating system and installed AMTU to send the data through to amazon. After putting together a test run I saw that the Inventory [...]
I in the middle of carrying out an upgrade for a client, which is causing the usual compatibility problems... Normally I rely on Developer mode to point me in the right direction with these, but in this case no matter what I did, I could not get magento to display errors. Finally I came across [...]