Aug 26, 2009 ·
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magento
If you are getting a weird “cant’ save customer” message in your local Magento development environment when trying to save a new account, but the bug is not on your live store, this might be the solution.. If like me you not only develop Magento sites but also use Zend Framework for other projects (which Magento is based upon) then you might find that there are some clashes between your version of Zend Framework and the Magento version.
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Aug 22, 2009 ·
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php
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 Here’s a nice little PHP snippet for you. The next weekday as a DD/MM/YYYY string: <?php if(preg_match('%(Sat|Sun|Fri)%', date('D'))){ $next_working_day = date('d/m/Y', strtotime('next Monday')); }else{ $next_working_day =
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Aug 20, 2009 ·
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magento
To find out about our Magento Training - please Get in Touch Edmonds Commerce are pleased to announce our new venture in offering professional training on the Magento open source ecommerce platform. We are firm believers in the Magento platform, but we realise that for many new or even established businesses running on Magento, the system can seem a bit daunting. There are so many great features built into Magento as standard that it really does make sense to make sure you are utilising them all to their fullest potential.
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Aug 19, 2009 ·
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php
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 using PHP5 on Ubuntu and are having strange issues with missing functions including imagerotate() then you have come up against the problems created by the Ubuntu/Debian packagers decision not to include the GD library included with PHP5 but instead include a more purist version of the GD library which unfortunatley has some missing components.
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Aug 17, 2009 ·
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seo
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 another useful keyword research tool. http://www.google.com/insights/search/ This is a bit like the google trends tool but with more detailed information. Handy helping to choose which variations of a search term to go for.
Aug 17, 2009 ·
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magento
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 etc. I haven’t personally seen a requirement for this as yet, but if they have gone to the effort of releasing a tool I imagine it is because there is a requirement for this kind of tool.
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