May 12
Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, open source, wordpress 4 Comments
I’m soooo happy to see my very first plugin to be released for everyone to use. I hope it will help a lot of Magento and WordPress users!
May 11
Feeling guru, Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, php, plugin, programming, wordpress 92 Comments
Update (May 12, 2010): Mage Enabler is now available in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Get it here!
It’s been a while since I posted my tweak that allows Mage object to be utilized within any WordPress installation. The tweak requires the blog owner to modify functions.php as stated in my post. I’m inspired by the feedback of the readers who used the tweak so I decided that a plugin that does the same thing should be made to prevent modifying the WordPress core files thus preventing the tweak to cause inconsistencies when an upgrade is necessary.
Apr 08
Feeling guru, Techie Daw Magento, open source, php, wordpress 120 Comments
Update (May 11, 2010): I created a WordPress plugin for this one. Check it out here.
You have a free WordPress blog that has been online for sometime. You love its simple yet powerful way of managing your content so you’ve decided to have it hosted to a different provider in order to have a more granular control to its code and functionality. Eventually, you needed cash to support the hosting expenses so you decided to utilize your blog for e-commerce use. That’s when Magento comes in to the scene. You want to find a way to use Magento as your backend while pulling your catalog and customer information to be posted to WordPress site. This is what my article is for.
Mar 25
Feeling guru, Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, php, programming 42 Comments
This post is an update for my blog entry on how to extend the Magento session to an external site but instead of using the version 1.2.1.2, I used the the latest stable version as of this writing which is version 1.4.0.1. The script below also implements the login() and logout() method the Magento way as well as extracting the customer data (firstname and lastname) using getCustomer() method.
Mar 24
Feeling guru, Techie Daw Magento, php, programming 115 Comments
You want to install a new Magento instance (version 1.4.0.1 at the time of this writing) in your machine. You followed every steps from downloading up to the setting up of your admin account. Everything went fine so you assumed you’re good to go. You tried to login using your admin account… nothing happened. You tried again… Same login screen with no error whatsoever. You wonder what went wrong. You checked the files and the database as well as clearing the cache. You even tried resetting your account’s password found in the Magento’s admin_user table using the MD5 function thru phpMyAdmin but to no avail. You gave up and tried to reinstall everything only to be greeted by the very same login screen after clicking the Login button.
Feb 11
Feeling guru, Techie Daw career, office, Outlook 2007, PDF, software, technical No Comments
I’ve been dealing with a lot of PDF files since I started working with my current employer. Unfortunately, Outlook 2007 which is by default installed in my machine doesn’t support PDF previewing. So for those with Windows XP OS and MS Outlook 2007 and above (yes, you read it right, version 2007+ only) you may download this nifty free application from Foxit Software which is modified by Tim Heuer (check out his blog here) to preview your PDF in Outlook in no time. Click here to download the file.
Don’t forget to thank him for this very useful app! Ciao!
Apr 27
Feeling guru, Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, open source, php, programming 15 Comments
Yes, I know. This topic has already been discussed here. But it seems the article isn’t really helpful for those people who would integrate Magento into a custom website because it will redirect the page to Magento’s default web store provided in the installation. The technique I’ll discuss here assumes that you know HTML and ofcourse familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP.
Apr 13
Feeling guru, Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, open source, php, programming 4 Comments
If you’re using an external site with Magento as a backend for e-commerce functionality, you will notice that the shopping cart items doesn’t get deleted after you checkout. Actually in Magento, a shopping cart is a quote. So to remove everything in the shopping cart, you must delete the quote currently used by the user. To do this, follow the code below:
Apr 13
Feeling guru, Techie Daw e-commerce, Magento, open source, php, programming 58 Comments
Recently I received a programming task requiring to use Magento as backend system while implementing its e-commerce functionality to a website created using CodeIgniter framework. After reading a book related to the software mentioned, I found this piece of code that will enable me to use all Magento’s power into my custom website:
Sep 05
Techie Daw Adobe Air, meebo No Comments
YES. Your eyes are not fooling you.
A screenshot of meebo running as a desktop application
I know dear. You hate those Network Admins who always find a way how to block your chat client. I’ve been there and like you, I’m really thankful that Meebo provides us a way of connecting us to our chat friends.
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