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PHP Announced Winner
A pretty nifty blog post entitled Why PHP Won lists 4 main points as to why the adoption of PHP for most Web projects today outpaces those built on Perl CGI. You can read the post Why PHP Won here: … Read More
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How ToMagento
Magento Default Products Sort Order Newest
Magento currently does not sort category products and any product listing for that matter by Newest (highest entity_id). Since my store works best when showing fresh products we felt it necessary to have our Magento installation sort by newest product … Read More
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Joomla Development Toolbox – Smashing
Smashing Magazine the online resource for all types of stuff has a post pp called: Joomla Developer’s Toolbox It’s a nice post listing most of the Joomla resources you’d end up encountering while development a Joomla site. Here’s a quick … Read More
How To
How to Check Loaded Extensions on Linux
If you’d like to check your loaded extensions on a Linux machine, create a PHP file with this line: print_r(get_loaded_extensions()); If the file where named print_extensions.php, save and run your file from the command line: php print_extensions.php That’s it. This … Read More
How To
How to Change Shell to Bash
If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line: echo $SHELL To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter … Read More
How ToosCommerce
Google eCommerce Tracking with osCommerce
Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528 In order to add Google transactions tracking to my osCommerce store I needed to … Read More
How ToosCommerce
osCommerce Tax By State
There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that … Read More
How To
No Sound with Flash YouTube Embedded Video
There’s been huge issues with Flash 9 and embedded flash videos either not playing at all or playing without sound. This problem is sometimes associated with Firefox not playing video sounds, YouTube embedded videos not playing, and with Flash 9 … Read More
osCommerce
Update Shipping Methods with osCommerce Advanced Table Rate
Updating shipping options have some specials rules due to it being a custom module. I’ve listed the text below from the module’s README file for further reading. Updating shipping methods require the following steps. Uninstall Table Rate Shipping Module (in … Read More
osCommerce
osCommerce with SSL Shopping Cart empty
There is a minor issue with osCommerce when using either 3rd party or ssl certificates assigned to a sub-domain which results in an error reading “Your Shopping Cart is empty!”. This happens when ENABLE_SSL is set to true in the … Read More
How To
Increase Category Name Length in osCommerce
osCommerce allows only 32 characters for the Category name length. In order to allow for longer osCommerce category names you can simply update your database table. There are two ways to do this. The first is by using something like … Read More
How ToJoomla
How to Install Joomla FireBoard with Community Builder
I recently installed FireBoard with my Joomla installation, which also uses Community Builder. One thing I noticed is the absence of a decent set of step-by-step instructions for the FireBoard install. I’ll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions … Read More