PHP Spell Checking, Easily Integrated Spell Checking for Magento, osCommerce, Wordpress, Drupal

If you would like your users to be able to spell check their text before they send it and need something more than the browser based spell checking then this could be of interest. Recently came across this and it looks very impressive: http://www.phpspellcheck.com/ There is a commercial licence for $89 which is a reasonable price I think. You can download the package and integrate it for free though so you don’t need to buy the licence until you decide to deploy it to a commercial site.

Console Log not working in Magento + solution

If you are writing any javascript in magento and try to debug using console.log, you may find that nothing happens in Chrome, but everything works as expected in Firefox. The reason for this is that varien have included a blank console object to prevent any calls to the console throwing an error if a console isn’t defined. However they explicitly check for firebug, which means if your running chrome the built in console is replaced. Read On →

Secure dropbox alternative

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 So there is often a requirement for sharing files but what happens if those files are files that absolutely must be secure, like private ssh keys? Well Dropbox whilst a good product is third-party and not encrypted so if there’s an exploit, the contents of the files could well be exposed to people you don’t want. Read On →

Question: How to Create Bootable Linux USB Key/Drives Easily from Linux

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 Answer to this quite clear and simple question is: unetbootin Not the easiest to find but definitely one of the easiest solutions. If you search for USB bootable drive generators mostly you will find windows apps. Read On →

Simple way to check Magento email setup

So, you’ve just moved a magento setup from one host to another, and you want to check if the email setup is correct, how do you do it? The simple easy way to do this is to have a test front-end user (which you probably already have) and send a password change email to the user. A simple trick but a good timesaver.

PHP SimpleXML CData not loading + solution

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 The php simpleXML object is my preferred way of working with XML, but it has some unusual quirks that can drive you up the wall. One of these is that, by default, it will not read CDATA within an XML file, and will just leave the node blank. Read On →