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izzyb - Fool Proof Magento Upgrades

izzyb — Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:06:54 +0000

Hello Nick, Great article. A couple of questions: 1. Would this work on a hosted solution as well? Or would you recommend some changes? 2. I have a 1.3.1 version that I would like to upgrade to 1.6.1 - what would be the best way of doing that? Thanks

Jason - Merging Magento Installations

Jason — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:56:31 +0000

Nick, I am about to do this with our current site redesign. Our Merch team has been updating the new testing site with products to get ready for the new launch while the old site is still running. That said, we will need to update quite the way you've said but will also need to keep the products, along with the cms and any other new tables, from the new site. Did you drop the existing tables you were replacing? Did you just export the data and add to the new tables? Any specifics and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Harshit - A Developer's Guide to using the Magento Cache

Harshit — Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:40:25 +0000

Brilliant! Thanks. This is quite useful while fetching data from external URL which does not change too often.

Guest - Awesome C Exam Question

Guest — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:08:28 +0000

I wouldn't say that this is a particularly "awesome" question to ask, as it appears to be undefined behaviour in C to modify the variable twice in the same sequence point (as a and b are, on lines 12 and 13). See http://c-faq.com/expr/seqpoints.html and/or compile with the GCC flag -Wsequence-point.

Joel Taylor - Dissecting the Magento Cron System

Joel Taylor — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:25:10 +0000

Awesome write-up Nick. Simple to understand. I was looking at the cron observer model and didn't see any event dispatches. Does the cron dispatch any events that we could tie into?

Nick - Magento How-to: Custom Error Page Design

Nick — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:23:00 +0000

Sorry guys, but that's not correct! The 404 is handled by the CMS module of Magento which, as default, redirects people to the CMS page with the identifier "no-route", although you can change this in the administration area. To see the error page you could just add a "maintenance.flag" file to your site root. That'll pop your site into maintenance mode and serve the error template.

syntax3rror - Magento How-to: Custom Error Page Design

syntax3rror — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:40:54 +0000

hmmmm... I think you may access the none existing URL.. THis will take you an error.. Error 404.. :)

Jinoy - Magento How-to: Custom Error Page Design

Jinoy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:02:07 +0000

Please write any file name which doesn't exist in site after index.php. Like pp.html or blahblah.html. You will get the error page.

Sandy - Magento How-to: Custom Error Page Design

Sandy — Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:57:13 +0000

thanks your very much, your method to config error page is userful

Gavin - Fool Proof Magento Upgrades

Gavin — Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:37:40 +0000

yes, i'm pretty sure it exists as I made a straight copy of the public_html folder into /upgradefolder/ I'm just about to do another upgrade on a site, I'll let you know if I get any other strange results.

Nick - A Developer's Guide to using the Magento Cache

Nick — Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:45:02 +0000

Impossible to tell without knowing the error.

dmtpt - A Developer's Guide to using the Magento Cache

dmtpt — Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:39:46 +0000

Thanks for this Nick, would be really useful if i could get it working. is this a new thing in 1.4? i just get an error on 1.3

napster6669 - Building Phonegap on Ubuntu

napster6669 — Sun, 3 Apr 2011 19:15:32 +0000

thank you - excellent

Nick - Fool Proof Magento Upgrades

Nick — Wed, 9 Mar 2011 01:05:04 +0000

I\\\'m fairly sure that this is triggered when it can\\\'t find app/etc/local.xml. Did that file exist?

Gavin - Fool Proof Magento Upgrades

Gavin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:37:45 +0000

Hi Nick, I've done this a few times and its worked great but on a few occassions, the root site has upgraded which has resulted in a 'complete magento download' installation screen?? Is there somewhere in the .pear installation files that point to the root? In my case i did www.livewebsite.com www.livewebsite.com/upgradefolder/ I ran ./pear mage-setup and upgrade on the /upgradefolder/ which contains an exact copy of the root website, a copy of the database and all the core-config paths updated to be www.livewebsite.com/upgradefolder/ any ideas?

javichu - Mage_Cms_Block_Widget_Interface not found

javichu — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:57:00 +0000

Thank you so much !!!!!

Kristof, Fooman - Proper Magento Class Overrides

Kristof, Fooman — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:25:00 +0000

If you want to replace core logic with your own logic there is unfortunately sometimes no other way then extending a core class. Also while event listeners are great and certainly underused at the moment they can also have their own set of problems in the current implementation (ie send too late in the code, object is unused on return and at some stage the order of event observers will need to be addressed). And sometimes it takes digging a little bit deeper to find an event/observer solution. Adding to the massaction dropdown is possible via core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before then check in your observer $observer->getEvent()->getBlock() instanceof Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Massaction and use $observer->getEvent()->getBlock()->addItem() you might want to additionally restrict by controller to not add to every massaction drop down.

mjtm - Enabling Magento Maintenance Mode

mjtm — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:55:52 +0000

Dear Nick, I need some help on the maintenance mode.

adam - Fool Proof Magento Upgrades

adam — Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:07:54 +0000

hey nick this worked wonders for me, i;'ve inherited a magento 1.1.8 install i need to upgrade the theme for. The back up finally worked a treat, after i'd worke dthrough all the magento code for depricated calls. Shame to upgrade to 1.4 it seems i must install 1.2/1.3/1.4 consecutivley and use the admin back up system any help or advise woudl be appreciated.

david - Proper Magento Class Overrides

david — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:51:14 +0000

Too sweeping. Retail is huge. There will always be a case that requires extending the core.