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Magento USPS Rate Calculator Break

Posted Wed, 2011-02-09 14:23 by Brian Tafoya

On December 17, 2010 the US Postal Service let customers know that a change was coming to the domestic shipping services.  These changes went into effect and caused the USPS shipping calculator in Magento to stop working.

The root cause is that the shipping method name now has a “®” symbol at the end of it.

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Magento Move / Magento Transfer

Posted Thu, 2011-01-06 13:46 by Brian Tafoya

Magento Move / Magento Transfer

This tutorial provides detailed information how to move a Magento store from one host to another (or to a different hosting account).

MySQL database backup.

This tutorial assumes you have phpMyAdmin included by default in cPanel for your account. In other cases you will have to use the same tool or a similar one that is capable of exporting your MySQL database.

Alternatively if you don’t have phpMyAdmin installed but you have shell access you can use mysqldump tool. The syntax is as follow

SSL, INTERNET EXPLORER, AND YOUR E-STORE

Posted Tue, 2010-09-07 12:15 by Brian Tafoya

So having to deal with the issue for what feels like the billionth time I figured I would blog about it and share with the world this wonderful 'situation' known as Internet Explorer (for short, IE) and SSL certificates.

A month ago we launched Fierce Costumes (www.fiercecostumes.com) and shortly after, Fierce and Sexy (www.fierceandsexy.com). Both stores are running on the fantastic e-commerce platform, Magento.

Magento Dataflow Export/Import form the command line

Posted Fri, 2010-07-09 04:04 by Brian Tafoya

One issue with Magento is the overhead involved in importing/exporting data which can cause timeouts when run from the web. Here is a script which will run from the command line....

Magento Manage Category Product Grid Edit Link

Posted Wed, 2010-06-30 11:19 by Brian Tafoya

One common request from my clients has been to include an 'Edit' link in the category product list, since strange enough Magento does not have one.

Fortunately this is a very simple task!

in the file 'app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Catalog\Category\Tab\Product.php' location the function 'protected function _prepareColumns()' and add to the end the below snippet.

Magento Update to 1.4.1.0 Soap Fatal Error

Posted Tue, 2010-06-29 11:40 by Brian Tafoya

There is another show stopper if you are utilizing web services.

A typo in Magento Soap.php file at lines 133-135:

} else {
 $this->fault('0', 'Unable to load Soap extension on the server');
 return $this;

to the patched version:

} else {
  $this->fault('0', 'Unable to load Soap extension on the server');
}
return $this;

Add the missing curly brace!

Magento Update to 1.4.1.0 Fatal Error - Blank Front End

Posted Tue, 2010-06-29 06:07 by Brian Tafoya

The latest upgrade of Magento (1.4.1.0) has a minor change with a major impact that affects most templates.

in page.xml under app/design/frontend/base/default/layout (or your custome page.xml) change the line...

<block type="core/profiler" output="toHtml"/>

to

<block type="core/profiler" output="toHtml" name="core_profiler"/>

Also make sure you file permissions are correct and clear the cache.

PHP Developers Wanted!!!

Posted Thu, 2010-03-11 01:53 by Brian Tafoya

We are looking for talented freelance PHP developers in the Phoenix Are for immediate contract work!!!

Experience in the following plaforms is preferred:

  • Drupal
  • Wordpress
  • Magento
  • Zend

JavaScript Experience a PLUS

  • jQuery
  • YUI

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