Archive: upgrade

Magento have released the latest version of Magento CE (community edition), 1.6.2.0 Major interest to most of our clients will be the refactoring of the indexing process to prevent duplicate indexing processes. Along with that is a nice list of fixes. If you are looking to upgrade your Magento store to the latest version simply [...]

There is a new feature in Netbeans that tries to auto fill the variables for methods and functions in PHP. Whilst this may be something that is a time saver for some, it often gets these wrong, and if you are using descriptive variables in the method then these are overwritten if you have a [...]

Magento Upgrade with Custom Modules Rewrite The aim of this project was to upgrade a store from 1.3 to 1.5, without losing the functionality of the site. The old version had had its core files modified, requiring a forensic examination of them in order to find and extract what had been changed. Love My Frames [...]

Abordage – Magento Upgrade and multi language implementation Abordage required a Magento Upgrade from 1.3 to the latest version. This was to ensure future compatibility with extensions and add new functionality. Abordage Abordage specialises in the production of quality scale wooden ship models and matching display cases. Implementing multiple languages can be interesting as it [...]

Aston’s of London – Magento Upgrade Aston’s of London required that their Magento site be upgraded from 1.3 CE to the latest version. This is required so that new functionality can be easily introduced on to the site when required. Aston’s of London Aston’s of London is an eCommerce company specialising in the sale of [...]

Over Board – Migration to Magento from OSCommerce Over Board wished to move away from OSCommerce due to limitations encountered while using OSCommerce. Using Magento allows the company the flexibility they desired. This project involved implementing a new site design as well as importing data from the old OSCommerce site. Over Board Over Board are [...]

Magento Site Upgrade Kevin Mayhew Ltd. required their Magento site to be upgraded from Enterprise 1.7 to the current release. They are looking to do this because the current site is having problems with some of the functionality which can only be correct by upgrading an extension and the extensions latest version is not compatibility [...]

If you use Git a lot, you probably want to run the latest version. Scroll down for some reasons why. The standard repository version for Ubuntu is 1.7.1, the current latest is 1.7.5 and there are some significant differences. How to Upgrade Git To get 1.7.5 on Ubuntu without too much messing about you can [...]

If you want to disable Magento's logging functioality (which can cause a lot of issues due to very large tables being generated and the overhead associated with that) then this is a possible solution. You can disable events by putting some special XML in your app/etc/local.xml file. This file does not get touched by upgrades [...]

Magento have just released the latest version of Magento Community Edition: 1.4.2.0 This continues the 1.4 branch of Magento. If you are still running Magento 1.3 or earlier you definitely need to be upgrading onto the 1.4 branch, there are so many improvements. Now that this version has come out there has never been a [...]