Warning: Parameter 3 to plgContentcsspopup::onPrepareContent() expected to libraries/joomla/event/event.php on line 69

After hours on end of hunting down  this error, ready to give up.  I figured to try disable all content related plugins. And what do you know, some plugin was the culprit!!

The plugin is called ‘Content-Css Popup’ .  So disabling this meaningless plugin, has restored my sleep to normal, for the moment.  

Next headache, is upgrading to 2.5, SIGH…

try{
$cart = new Mage_Checkout_Model_Cart();
$cart->truncate();//clear existing cart items
$cart->init();
$cart->addProductsByIds($productIds);
$cart->save();
}
catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
}

Of course the above snippet will not work in isolation.  Below is an example of how I used it. I have put this snippet into a controller that then redirects to the users’ shopping cart. e.g. http://myshop/mycheckout/addmultipletocart/?product_id[]=1&product_id[]=24&product_id[]=987&customer_id=32

$params = $this->getRequest()->getParams();
$redirect = "checkout/cart";
Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session');
Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->loginById($params['customer_id']);//login the customer, so that we add items to this customers' cart and then redirect them to their cart.

$productIds=$params['product_id'];

            try{
                $cart = new Mage_Checkout_Model_Cart();
                $cart->truncate();//clear existing cart items
                $cart->init();
                $cart->addProductsByIds($productIds);
                $cart->save();
            }
            catch(Exception $e){
                echo $e->getMessage();
            }

$this->_redirect($redirect);

Happy coding!

When I get an answer, I’ll let you know, for now it’s good bye buzz…

I was quite chuffed to discover a tool called Feed Gator. Apparently its been around since Joomla 1.0 days; I didn’t know that, and neither did I know of auto-blogging then, so its cool.

As a matter of preference I ignore Joomla’s default content manager and rush to quickly install K2 just because its better and easier for most layman to understand. And so its a big plus that Feed Gator can feed into it; and you can separate each feed into categories, yey!

For the benefit of others, auto-blogging is the stealing art of content from other bloggers via RSS feeds. You take a bunch of feeds and create your own blog articles with them.

DOWNLOAD LINK : http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/automatic-articles/13573

Happy auto-blogging!

Extension key : magento-community/TBT_Enhancedgrid

Download: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/WDCA/extension/748/enhanced-product-grid

Solution:

The fastest and easiest solution is to run Magentos clean-up. All it essentially does is to reset the file permissions and clear out all Magentos’ miscellaneous cache folders.

Get it here : http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/resetting_file_permissions

The longer route is to do what the cleanup does; manually, and I know you are not going to try that.

Having chosen my site to use Zim Dollar for sells, the symbol is $Z. I wanted to change that to $ZWD. So you have to go to \lib\Zend\Locale\Data

Default symbols are in root.xml and if you’re using other translations the symbols are in one of many .xml files in there. e.g if the translation was shona, the file would be sn.xml

So assuming you’re using the default language, open root.xml and search for the symbol you want to modify and change it accordingly.

If you ask me, a backend symbol modifier would be cool.

Oh, my dear magento… we’re a simple folk…

And we use it like so:

WRONG:

$category = $_GET['category'];

RIGHT:

$category = JRequest::getInt('categoryid'); //integer
$category = JRequest::getVar('category'); //mixed variable
$category = JRequest::getString('categoryname'); //string variable

How simple is that?? That small change in your extensions and modules will save you headaches with vulnerable exploits in your custom developments.

Happy coding; the proper way this time!!

wp-comments-notifier is an open source application that simply alerts you when new comments are posted on your WordPress blog (works with WordPress MU too – awesome!). it just docks in your system tray nicely and neatly.

Enjoy!!

$this->getRequest()->getParam('variable');