Magento
Magento – Stuck in Maintenance Mode
After upgrade magento to 1.5.0.1, my client’s website was stuck in magento maintenance mode. I wasn’t able to easily find a way…
Category: PHP
PHP
PHP MS SQL Truncated VarChar(255)
I don’t often have fields much longer than 256 char, but a web application I am working on makes use of varchar…
PHP
Resolving Session Not Saving
Tonight, I’ve encountered a very strange situation where the session data was empty after each page reload. Have you ever had an…
Magento
How do I upgrade magento?
Before you upgrade magento you should be sure to make a complete back up of your files and your database. (It also…
Magento
Magento – Adding Feaured Products to Front Page
The owner of Nature Bumz wanted to be able to add featured products to the home page of their magento store each…
Magento
Magento – Setting Paypal to Redirect Back
Quick steps on how to redirect back to your magento store upon a successful purchase. Unfortunately, you can only redirect to one…
Wordpress
WordPress – Auto Tweeting
A couple of visitors have asked me how I am automatically tweeting my post title to twitter: I’m of course using a…
Magento
BRCline Consulting – 1st Magento Site
BRCline Consulting has been busy working on its first ecommerce site to create Niagara Fall’s Natue Bumz Cloth Diaper Shop. The owner,…
PHP
Magento – How to Enable Logging
Magento is an excellent project that so far hasn’t been too difficult to program for. Initially learning how to use magento has…
JavaScript
jQuery + PHP to parse XML
jQuery is very well suited for cross browser JavaScript development, but I bet you didn’t know jQuery is also fairly well suited…
MODx
MODx – Evolution – 1st Impressions
I haven’t been using MODx for very long, but I have worked with several other content management systems previously and experienced both…
PHP
PHP Object/Variable Life Time
Many junior PHP developers seem to feel that PHP objects and variables are retained between requests. In PHP4 and PHP5, no variables are retained outside of the contents of $_SESSION and other stores between requests.
Drupal
Learning Drupal
For the last couple of weeks, I have began playing around with Drupal because I'm so sick of fighting proprietary CMS. The proprietary CMS suffers from the vendor updating only updating the CMS when convenient for them and this ends up holding the purchaser hostage. Overall, I know that drupal has enough of the functionality that I need in modules and the core to significantly improve the efficiency of my programming and possibly offer a large learning opportunity on software architecture.
PHP
PHP Update Finally Depreciates PHP MSSQL driver
The biggest advantage of the change is being able to better take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server features that probably made you choose to use SQL Server in the first place.Making the change wasn't overly difficult because I took time and wrote a simple Database Access Layer.
PHP
Installing PHPUnit on WAMPServer
Installing WampServer and PHPUnit doesn't have to be difficult. Check out this post on how to install PHPUnit on WampServer.
PHP
PHP On IIS & My Epic Battle (Failed to write session data)
Always make sure that you modify the session.save_path to somewhere meaningful and ensure the directory has the correct file permissions.