Feb 17, 2011 ·
1 minute read
magento
If you want to calculate the actual save path that Magento will use for an image file for example then you might find yourself scouring the source code for the specific method that does this. It’s not the easiest to find, in fact its tucked away in the lib folder inside the Varien_File_Uploader class. The method in question is a usefully static method Varien_File_Uploader::getDispretionPath(); Sorted!
Feb 16, 2011 ·
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netbeans
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 your Netbeans project is behaving a bit weirdly with regards to code auto completion then this little fix might be for you. Netbeans maintains a cache folder and it looks like this can get corrupted sometimes and need clearing out.
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Feb 16, 2011 ·
1 minute read
magento
If you want to disable Magento’s logging functioality (which can cause a lot of issues due to very large tables being generated and the overhead associated with that) then this is a possible solution. You can disable events by putting some special XML in your app/etc/local.xml file. This file does not get touched by upgrades (AFAIK) and the effects should kick in as soon as the configuration cache is cleared and rebuilt.
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Feb 11, 2011 ·
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magento
Traditionally Edmonds Commerce have always recommended Sage Pay as a payment service provider however recently the service has been a bit patchy and they have made some mistakes in their general strategy. Its definitely a good time to evaluate the other available options and here are some that we recommend looking at: Total Web Solutions Iridium Both of these have free Magento connect extensions and offer competitive pricing and general feedback seems to be good so well worth taking a look at.
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Feb 10, 2011 ·
2 minute read
magento
If you need to send some custom emails as part of a custom Magento module development project, you will stumble into the Magento email template system and its confusing mixture of XML requirements. Rather than go into too much detail here are some pointers about how to achieve what you want to do. You need to set up your admin options in your system.xml file. I’m not going to go into the details on how to set up custom admin configuration, for that try here.
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Feb 8, 2011 ·
1 minute read
magento
Continuing with trying to improve the developer experience with Magento a key element has been my quest for a detailed exception dump that can also handle the various object recursion issues in Magento that can cause all kinds of issues when developing. Here is my most up to date version of the detailedExceptionDump method. Its designed to go into a customised version of Mage that you should ONLY use on development environemnts.
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