Migrating osCommerce Sites to a New Server (also CRE Loaded, Zen Cart etc)

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 need to move your osCommerce (and derivatives such as CRE Loaded and Zen Cart) based site to a new server, here is a quick explanation of our approach which enables you to handle the migration without any downtime and no loss of order or customer information despite the fact that in the propagation period, visitors may visit the new server or the old server. Read On →

Magento Huge Database? - Solution

If your Magento database has swelled to truly gargantuan proportions, then perhaps you have suffered the same fate as a recent client. Magento happily logs all kinds of data to a collection of tables beginning with the prefix log_ It is possible to configure Magento to clean out these logs on a regular basis as part of its Cron schedule (you have created a cron job to run the cron.php script haven’t you?). Read On →

Checking Product Coverage with the ICEcat system.

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 want to check coverage against ICEcat, the best thing to do is to import their dump file available here into a MySQL database. The file format is a bit unusual, but here is a nice command you can run. Read On →

New Easy MVC Framework for WYSIWYG Designers (and PHP developers)

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 I seem to be incredibly busy this month… Managed to do a lot though. One cool thing is the creation of a shared hosting friendly (and also wysiwyg designer friendly) MVC framework. Read On →

#PHPNW09 Round Up

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 This weekend saw the second annual PHP North West conference in Manchester. It was great :) After seeing two talks that touched upon the Symfony framework plus the plethora of other developers with an almost religious passion for the framework that I spoke to, I will definitely be getting into it soon. Read On →

Javascript Associate Arrays / Objects with Dynamic Key Access

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 are trying to use associative arrays in Javascript, the first thing is to not use the Array type and instead just use objects. The weird and wonderful thing is that if you create your array as an object, you can still use the array style square brackets to access object properties. Read On →