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PHP Tips – Remove That Bad Character

Posted on: 29th Jul 2010 By: Robert Kent No Comments

There is a very common occurrence in websites. A bad character will appear on your web page for no reason whatsoever. Or so you thought…

Some amateur designers and developers can sometimes forget to play web-safe. Meaning your pound signs should be written £ rather than £ or your & [...]

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New Version of Magento

Posted on: 28th Jul 2010 By: Robert Kent 1 Comment

It’s that time again! A new version of magento is out and about – terrorizing your neighborhood! It’s called 1.4.1.1 – not as catchy as the “beast of Bodmin moor” but what are you gonna do?

Some of the major changes in this one you can find here.

But from a [...]

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PHP Tip – Find all Images in a Folder

Posted on: 26th Jul 2010 By: Robert Kent 2 Comments

There may come a point in your lives when you need to find some images in a folder. There are many reasons why this may be so, but not many that come to my mind immediately – only this – find all images and organize them for some reason.

Well [...]

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Migration Issues Magento DB Connection

Posted on: 23rd Jul 2010 By: Robert Kent No Comments

Just a quick post about a strange problem that occurred when transferring or migrating a site between plesk servers the other day.

Basically the error we received was one I have seen many times but not in magento. The error was:

The problem was simply when the site migrated, the database [...]

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Creating a YouTube Video Tab

Posted on: 22nd Jul 2010 By: Robert Kent No Comments

For this tutorial, you will need the modern theme installed.

What we are going to do is to add an attribute to our attribute set where you can embed the youtube video code. This will then display on the front end of the website for your products.

The files you will [...]

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