Monthly Archives December 2009

Quick script to batch create Magento categories

A site we administer with a reasonable amount of SKUs (far in excess of 100,000), needed some quick category manipulation for a series of new data to be dropped in. The new information had a desired category tree that had … Continue reading

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[slightly] Lifesaving online tools for a web developer

Everyone needs some help to make their life easier and here are some of the on-line tools we use on a regular basis. We’ll keep the list updated whenever we find (or remember) another service that could come in handy … Continue reading

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Export Excel CSVs with double quotes

This is a necessary evil for anyone who is working with CSV files manipulating them for data import to Magento (when XML is not suitable). Add the following function (sub routine) to Excel and hit the Macro button to run … Continue reading

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Quick script to export Magento categories with IDs

If you are after a quick method to get all the category ID’s for your categories for some Excel lookups (for new data imports), then this quick PHP script should help you out: <?php   define(’MAGENTO’, realpath(dirname(__FILE__))); require_once MAGENTO . … Continue reading

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The #sonassi_network is tracked via Twitter

After the disaster suffered at the London Internet Exchange, there has become a necessity to track network complications externally. We have always tracked any network complications internally via www.theclientarea.info, however, we have expanded on that functionality by extending our #sonassi_network … Continue reading

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