How to fix the ‘The plugin does not have a valid header’ error when activating a WordPress plugin

May 27

Richard FeraroFeeling guru , , , , 2 Comments

You want to extend WordPress’ functionality and decided to download some plugins found in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. After searching the repo, you’ve found two plugins that accomplishes the tasks you needed to implement in your blog. Downloading the plugins gives you two ZIP files that when double-clicked, shows you the contents in the following format:

plugin-a.zip

plugin-a-folder
---- plugin-a-main-file.php
---- plugin-a-readme.txt

plugin-b.zip

plugin-b-folder
---- plugin-b-subfolder
-------- plugin-b-main-file.php
-------- plugin-b-readme.txt

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Mage Enabler is now available for download in the Official WordPress Plugin repository!

May 12

Richard FeraroTechie Daw , , , 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!

Click! click! click!

WordCamp Philippines on October 2010!

Apr 28

Richard FeraroEvents , , , 3 Comments

I’m sooo excited about this! For those who don’t know what WordCamp is, here is an excerpt from their site:

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

It is scheduled on October 2 this year and they haven’t publish any details yet, but what the heck! I’m still going! So fellow WordPress bloggers, hop on to our mothership!

How to use Magento’s session within WordPress

Apr 08

Richard FeraroFeeling guru, Techie Daw , , , 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.

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How to add a product into Magento shopping cart from an external site?

Apr 27

Richard FeraroFeeling guru, Techie Daw , , , , 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.

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How to delete a quote in Magento?

Apr 13

Richard FeraroFeeling guru, Techie Daw , , , , 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:

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How to run Magento session into an external site?

Apr 13

Richard FeraroFeeling guru, Techie Daw , , , , 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:

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