Make Multiple Directories in One Go - Yes!

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub If you work with applications that have a lot of nested directories (ahem Magento) then you might really like this. In one command, you can make an entire path of nested directories with the command mkdirhier. Read On →

Easily Create Colour Schemes

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Just came across Kuler - by Adobe. A nice little flash app for creating colour schemes http://kuler.adobe.com/

Magento Custom Model via Mage::getSingleton()

If you are trying to load a custom model using the build in Mage::getSingleton() method and are struggling because it keeps looking in the Mage/ directory for your model instead of your custom model, the best solution I found was simply to put the entire class name of the model. eg doesn’t work: //trying to load EC/Custom/Model/Blah.php Mage::getSingleton('EC_custom/blah'); does work //trying to load EC/Custom/Model/Blah.php Mage::getSingleton('EC_Custom_Model_Blah');

Magento XAMPP Portable Demo - Easily Try Out Magento on Windows

I have put together an XAMPP based portable Magento demo site. You can easily download it to your windows PC, drop the xampp folder into the root of your C: drive, launch the XAMPP control panel to start Apache and MySQL and then you are away. You can get the files on GitHub here: http://github.com/edmondscommerce/XAMPP-Magento-Demo-Site Please read the README which is displayed at the bottom of the GitHub page for up to date instructions.

Magento Training Course Details

As previously announced, we have started to run a Magento training course. The course is targeted at Magento site owners who are new to the system and are keen to get the most out of their Magento store. One of the key advantages of Magento is it’s wealth of professional ecommerce features that all come bundled as standard. These really make it stand proud of the competition. However, if you don’t know how to use those features then they are wasted. Read On →

Linux Split File (eg CSV) and Keep Header Row

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Linux has a great little utility called split, which can take a file and split it into chunks of whatever size you want, eg 100 line chunks. Read On →