Agile Development
Think this is only really funny to people that follow an agile agenda…
Magento FCKEditor Product Validation
Implementing WYSIWYG editing is fairly straightforward in Magento using either TinyMCE or FCKEditor. However, a known issue means that TinyMCE doesn’t work within the CMS section. So FCKEditor is the only real option at the moment.
There is however one issue to sort out. The product description field is mandatory; when you enter text into this field, and click ’save’ or ’save and continue’ the validation doesn’t pick the text up. You need to tell FCKEditor to update the textarea.
Magento Migration
As with most things Magento, it isn’t too straightforward moving an installation from one domain to another.
I have provided this post as an outline on how to approach migrating your Magento installation.
Selenium & TinyMCE
Selenium’s ‘type’ command will not work with forms using TinyMCE for WYSIWYG markup. To test TinyMCE forms, you need to use ‘runScript’ to fire off some JavaScript to set the value.
PHP Alternative Syntax for UI
PHP has a slightly underused alternative syntax for control structures, which generally is more effective in template files than the standard block-style code.
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Magento Language Localisation
Magento is very much geared to users in the US. Although I like Magento, documentation is still a bit lacking, and it is a bit of a chore to find out how to do things which many would consider straight forward or fundamental to get a site working. One such task is to change text so it is more appropriate to a UK audience.
Wiki User Guides
Many of the more complex websites we produce at Sandbox Media require more than just an intuitive administration user interface to allow our clients to use the system we have built for them.
osCommerce Shipping Module Required OMG
Working with osCommerce is never fun and games at the best of times, but what Don Cheng is asking would drive a developer mad…
4 Awesome ways to get listed in Digg Technology
There seems to be regular repitions of the types of article that are featured and rated highly on Digg.com’s Technology section (as a web developer it is rare that I wander from this section). It’s not hard to spot patterns of these repetitions and so I have listed them here.