Magento System Admin Backup Error in “foreach” Loop
I just hit this on one of my installations, and finally got around to caring enough to look for a fix, which I found here: http://www.simplehelix.com/blog/2009/07/magento-backup-error/. What happens is you blow right up on line 234 of lib/Varien/Data/Collection/Filesystem.php and you can’t run backup. I’m just expanding on the SimpleHelix fix with a little more context, [...]
Magento Product Create API: use_config_min_sale_qty (and max) attributes
In a site I maintain I have a separate web application for adding products. The reason for this is that products need to be added to both a backend warehousing system as well as magento. I’m posting this because the documentation on the magento site isn’t clear about how one goes about setting these attributes: [...]
Installing git on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5)
Background I am looking for a more flexible, faster Source Code Management system as development expands both in and out of house. Especially now with our increased use of Magento – some people are doing style sheets, some doing templates, some doing new scripts and still others code. It’s increasingly difficult to manage with CVS [...]
Magento: How to Turn On Template Path Hints and Inline Translation
Background These settings – especially template path hints – are unclear in existing documentation.The Magento User Guide makes no mention of either. My guess is that it’s considered beyond the scope of that manual. I’ve not seen any mention in php|Architect’s “Guide to E-commerce Programming with Magento” so far, either. Magento Inline Translation This is [...]