Magento Index Management ...
There are many great third-party extensions available for Magento. But often a third-party extension isn’t the best solution and can, in some cases, cause issues for your web application. On one occasion, one of my clients attempted to install a third-party extension that didn’t work out, so he proceeded to manually uninstall that extension himself. Consequently, it caused a few problems in the database, since...
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Cast as Integer in Propel...
I like to be able to quickly find what I need and quickly check out when shopping online, as do most online shoppers. I had to fix some major shopping friction, for a client eCommerce website, which was caused by product item options not displaying in the proper order (there are many options for each item). The issue was caused by the application trying to sort a VARCHAR table field in the PostgreSQL database, which looked...
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Remove .svn folders with ...
A handy Linux command that I use frequently is the find command. There are several command options that make the find command very useful and robust, a few of which are -name, -type, and -exec. You can specify a file name or directory name with the -name option, and specify the type to search – either directory (d) or file (f) with the -type option. The -exec option allows you to execute a command on each of the...
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Magento Migration to New ...
I like working with Magento. Now that I’ve said it, you might consider me a person who likes pain if you’ve worked with Magento… A few years ago when I started working on my first Magento project, I would have agreed with you that Magento is painful. I struggled with the documentation, the steep learning curve, the use of tons of XML *gulp*, and the complexity of working with an EAV database structure. ...
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