Archive: repair

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 [...]

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 [...]