Archive for November, 2009
Migrate a Magento store without SSH access
Nov
27th
We were recently asked to migrate a store to our Sonassi Hosting platform, but the client did not have SSH access to his previous hosting account.
So we quickly knocked up a script to take care of the backup process
<?php
$db_host = "";
$db_name = "";
$db_username = "";
$db_password = "";
// Backup database
shell_exec("/usr/bin/mysqldump -h ".$db_host." -u ".$db_username." -p".$db_password." >...
RBC Claim Management
Nov
24th
RBC Claim Management are leading specialists in making sure you can reclaim mis-sold payment protection insurance, unfair bank and credit card charges. PPI Claim Management operate on a no win no fee scheme and have helped thousands of people challenge the banks and credit card companies in recovering unfair charges and insurance policies.
Sonassi built the...
We are hiring: Developers wanted
Nov
16th
That time has come that Sonassi is looking for some additional staff to help our day to day running. We’re hoping to pick a few happy developers from the unemployed-recession pile and take them under our wing.
Whether you are an experienced developer or you have some mild experience, we might well be interested – as...
Magento PayPoint/Meta-Charge extension fault and fixes (PayPoint Fastrack 1.3.1)
Nov
11th
At a customers request we were given the opportunity to use PayPoint/Meta-Charge as the payment gateway. As an extension already existed there was little point re-inventing the wheel, so we took advantage of PayPoint Fastrack by Deeson Group Ltd.
However, after a few days use it was become apparent there was a bug with the extension...
Magento eBay Extension (ESS-UA) bug fixes
Nov
7th
We have been working on some mild Magento >< eBay integration using the extension above, but we had run into a few hurdles with the code, so we have improved portions of it.
Prices displayed with 4 significant figures, line breaks not displayed in descriptions
In the page body, prices were displayed as £18.5000 instead of £18.50...
Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object
Nov
6th
Maybe you would be interested in a better way to integrate Magento and Wordpress if you are having difficulties with the below.
If you are using Lazzymonks Wordpress integration extension for Magento and experience the following error, here is the resolve.
Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in app/code/community/Mage/Blog/Model/Layouts.php
There is...
94% less SPAM in 24 hours – we’ll call that a success!
Nov
5th
It is still quite early to be celebrating, but we have already seen a marked improvement in the reduction of SPAM in less than 24 hours with the new anti-spam measures implemented.
But we’ll let the pictures do the...
Spam prevention has been kicked up a gear
Nov
4th
Following several recent publications documenting increases in Spam, and more importantly malware present in Spam. We have been making a determined effort to assist our customers by developing more sophisticated, less obtrusive anti-spam measures.
As standard, all mail passing through Sonassi Hosting’s mail servers is subject to several security sweeps. But we have felt it necessary...
We’ve unbranded the default domain page
Nov
3rd
Following a recent request from a customer – we have removed all references to Sonassi from the default landing page after you create your new domain, on Sonassi Hosting.
From now on, a plain, simple greeting page will kick start your web...