About the Author
Richard Feraro is a PHP Developer living in Manila, Philippines. He has been programming for nine (9) years and working on different open source application mostly done in PHP and MySQL. He usually spends most of his time online, reading blogs of vast topics which are mostly inclined to Science, blogging, open source application, how-to, current events and lifestyle.
He started as a web designer but realized that he’s more interested in programming when he saw colleagues converting Java application to PHP way back 2002. Since then, Richard studied the language and the rest is history.
37 Responses to About the Author
music
January 8th, 2008 at 7:38 am
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
Kreamy
April 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
nyc blog!!!!
karthi
November 25th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
which version very convenet to working on xampp using magento because i have a error report install in magento.
i using magento version 1.4.0.1 and Xampp 1.7.3
Richard Feraro
November 26th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Any version will do, but get latest of course.
Drew
January 13th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Do you do consulting/coding?
I am in need of immediate help with magento, on a basic installation, with adding a cart block of my magento installation to an external website. Please email me as soon as possible.
Wes Davis
January 27th, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Hi Richard, I have a smalle WP/Magento integration job that needs doing. Are you available for freelance work?
Cheers, Wes
Hong
March 25th, 2011 at 5:51 am
Richard, how do I contact you privately?
Richard Feraro
March 25th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Sent you an email.
James
April 7th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Hi Richard, please could you get in touch with me. Thanks, James.
Brit
April 21st, 2011 at 4:40 am
Hi, I wanted to contact you about an Opportunity I have, can you please e-mail me?
Thanks!
Brit
Sean
April 21st, 2011 at 5:30 am
Hey Richard do you have any websites that use this plugin now so I can look at examples? I’m just making sure that I want my WORDPRESS website as the foundation and the Magento store to feed into my wordpress pages. Is this the correct plugin?
Thanks
Richard Feraro
April 21st, 2011 at 11:18 am
There are some links provided in the support page:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/mage-enabler-any-sample-sites
jp Tuason
April 24th, 2011 at 11:14 am
Richard,
Very cool site you have. I run a local company that teaches people to race gokarts, cars, drifting, etc.
We have been running the race school for about 12 years now and get both local and foreign drivers on a monthly basis. We are looking for new ways to promote our company and would like to possibly invite you to the track to experience what we do. We are also about to launch the most expensive local race simulator (it costs about 15K USD) and is available for your guys to try. Let me know if you are interested to discuss. Thanks!
BTW here is a very cool video we made to give people an idea of what we do. Feel free to post it if you can!
Proudly Pinoy Made! First in the World diesel powered championship winning drift 4×4 pick up!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TuasonracingTV#p/a/u/0/Tb8zSJI6hlI
JP Tuason
0918 9297859
Sean
May 6th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Hey Richard I can’t get the absolute url work for the life of me. /snowtechnologiestesting/shop/app/Mage.php I would assume this would work but nothing is working. snowtechnologiestesting.com is the website and it would be snowtechnologiestesting.com/shop is where the magento install is located.
Sean
May 6th, 2011 at 6:09 am
Here is the actual Absolute Path my hosting company told me but still is saying its invalid /home1/snowtech/public_htm/snowtechnologiestesting/shop/app/mage.php Any thoughts?
Eugene Gutierrez
May 11th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Hi Richard, can you please contact me? My email address is: gene.gutierrez@transfast.com My office number is 576-4205 and my Cell is 0917-853.1958. Re: position. Thanks
Pantho Bihosh
May 13th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Hi Richard!
But I am trying.
I am feeling happy listening your story. I am a Bangladeshi boy, who love to work with Programming, but unfortunately I am a student of Zoology. That’s why, I am working hard to learn Java, PHP & MySQL. No I am facing a great problem with English…
To reading your profile, I am feeling interest from you. So thanks.
hope
June 7th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
sir where did you learn magento? is there a school that teaches that program po ba in the philippines? or do you know anybody who can give one on one tutorials?
Richard Feraro
June 7th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
I learned through reading stuff online
ferdie de ramos
June 16th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
sir may i have your email address or any contact number?? thank you
Sourav Mondal
July 9th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
i have create a file abcd.phtml in app\desig\frontend\base\default\template\page\html
Now i want to access it from app\design\frontend\base\default\template\page\html\header.phtml
i add this code
getChildHtml(‘abcd’); ?>
in the header.phtml
also add
in the page.xml
under the
but abcd.phtml is not call by magento. i am using magento 1.5.1
please help me how can i do it.
Lasse
August 8th, 2011 at 2:44 am
Hi Richard, Are you available for freelance work? I am in charge of finding a good fit for my business Lux & Eco, and I really like your implementations of WordPress and Magento. We need to integrate our product feed with our blog, and it seems the Magento API can do that just well.
Melissa Soo
August 8th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Hi Richard!
Can I have our email pls?
Thanks
Jochem
August 16th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Hi Richard,
could you tell me if it is possible to use the Mage object in the backend of WordPress. I need it to fetch a list of products from the database.
Thanks in advance!
Jochem
Richard Feraro
August 16th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
You can try with the recent version of WordPress. The last time I tried it, I had difficulty removing the “Cannot send header information…” in the backend but that’s several versions ago.
Fulvio
August 26th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Hi Richard,
I just discovered your plugin. I’m a WordPress developer but I lack of experience with Magento. I have been asked to embed Magento into WordPress, ie use WordPress as CMS and display a Magento shop in one or more WordPress template pages (that would presumably include logins, user pages, etc). I am not sure if it’s possible to achieve that. The goal is to use the advantages of WordPress to create and manage the website layout and use only the backend of Magento for administrating the shop, without messing with Magento templating, except for some minimal CSS. Do you think this is possible to do? Would your plugin be enough? Thank you so much!
Fulvio
Peter
August 27th, 2011 at 5:23 am
Hi Richard,
I want to ask you a question but i dont know this is the place to ask my question:)
Regards Peter
Richard Feraro
September 1st, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Yes
Richard Feraro
September 1st, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Just ask.
Jochem
September 1st, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Hi Richard,
I have another question: I use the following code inside my index.php to create a magento session and user login.
Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’, array(‘name’ => ‘frontend’));
$session = Mage::getSingleton(“customer/session”);
if($login = $session->login(‘jochem.nabuurs@gmail.com’, ‘iEkE8832′)) {
echo ‘logged in : ‘ . $login .”;
}
else {
echo ‘not logged in’;
}
This works like a charm.
The code above runs on test.domain.com. My Magento install runs on test.domain.com/shop.
The problem I’m experiencing is that when i go to test.domain.com/shop, magento creates a new frontend session. When i look at my session cookies i see 2 frontend session cookies. One with path / and one with path shop/. So there are 2 different sessions. Do you know of a way to join these sessions, because now the session within wp is different from the magento session.
Thanks in advance!
Richard Feraro
September 2nd, 2011 at 5:12 pm
You may set your cookie domain to ‘/’ so that it is available even in subdomains.
Jochem
September 2nd, 2011 at 7:40 pm
How do i do that? Thanks in advance.
Jochem
September 2nd, 2011 at 7:40 pm
How do i do that? Thanks in advance.
Jochem
September 2nd, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Thank you. Found it allready: Magento admin -> configuration -> web -> session cookie management.
Thank you for your time.
Connie OrangeRoad
October 5th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Hi, Richard:
I am part of a social media research company based in Singapore. We have a Manila office but most of the staff are homebased. We will be having a 2-day seminar about social media. I was wondering if we could invite you to give a short talk.
Thanks.
Connie
John
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:13 am
Hi Richard,
Would you be interested in a new project?
Please email so i can send you the details
Thanks
Master Jrock
January 10th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Hi Richard,
Would you be interested in a new project that involves Online Auction Bidding via PHP and Java?
Please email so i can send you the details
Thanks