Zend, Magento and WordPress – working together
I recently wanted to integrate WordPress, Magento and a bespoke Zend application to work together. For the main part, this was easy. I put the Magento installation into a seperate Read More »
Author Archives: Douglas Radburn
Magento – Getting a custom image type in your view
Every now and then, you might end up with a custom image type in your Magento store. Maybe the initial ones don’t allow enough flexibilty or you need to show Read More »
Magento and a free shipping option for Google Checkout
When using flat rate shipping options for Google Checkout, you can include a free delivery option. However, when you click through to Google Checkout, the free option is missing. Google Read More »
Getting category thumbnail images with Magento
Magento provides facilities to get the Image URL from a category by using the catalog/category model.
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However, by default, it doesn’t provide the facility to get the thumbnail category Read More »
MySQL issues from apt-get update
I did an apt-get upgrade from one version of Debian to another – I think it was etch to lenny. Upon restarting the box, mysql wouldn’t respond. hq-lnx-001:~# /etc/init.d/mysql start Read More »
How to get number of cart items in Magento
Many websites show a “total number of items in your basket”. So, how do you get that information out of Magento if you’re not in the checkout process? You can Read More »
Think Visibility September 2011
This is the third Think Visibility I’ve attended (much thanks to Branded3 for forking out for the ticket!) I’ve really enjoyed the previous conferences and this one was no exception. Read More »
Where has apache2-ssl-certificate gone?
I was setting up SSL on our local Debian box at work, and needed to generate a new cert. apache2-ssl-certificate failed to work though, so what have they done with Read More »
Viewing another users’ Crontab
I had the need recently to find a cron job on a server. I was logged in as root, but I didn’t know who the cron job was set up Read More »
jQuery UI Tabs and the Stylish Select Plugin
I was having issues with a site recently whereby the jQuery UI Tabs that were on the site weren’t working in IE. After chopping out all other includes and HTML/CSS Read More »
Upgrading PHP
I was reading about the impending release of WordPress 3.2 and the fact that it will only be supporting PHP 5.2 and above. This also sparked discussion at http://yoast.com/requires-php-52/ regarding Read More »
WordPress MU on main domains
WordPress MU, or just WordPress now as of v3, supports “networks” of sites. Once you set up the main site, you can install other sites into folders, or on to Read More »