Magento

This issue has bobbed its head a few times in various different ways. The example is that a user reaches checkout, my account or an equally session critical area, but instead of reaching the selected page, they are redirected to the homepage. This can be a conversion killer as usually the bug appears most notably … Continue reading

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 $xml = simplexml_load_file("app/etc/local.xml"); $db_host = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->host; $db_name = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->dbname; $db_username = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->username; $db_password = … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

All our customers should already know we install Magento free of charge on demand, but for those who want to be more self sufficient with their stores, they can use the install script. Log in via SSH as usual and run: # /data/lib/install-magento.sh [syntaxhighlighter]

This article is now deprecated and the issue has been resolved without changes to core code after our service change. We have recently spotted an issue after traversing our Apache sendmail application to mini_sendmail (read more about the change). In Magento's mail headers, the recipient and sender details have both the email address and respective … Continue reading

We have noticed this issue cropping up with Magento. Whilst we originally assumed it was a system level fault, further testing has revealed there is an issue with the implementation of iconv() in Magento. There was a problem with Magento converting strings between character sets, specifically when creating a PDF invoice. Initial testing with a … Continue reading

After noting some downtime issues recently with Magentocommerce.com - it has come to our attention that it has had a possible impact on stores. When Magentocommerce went down this afternoon - the admin area on all of our hosted stores became non-responsive. As a test, we thought perhaps the version checking facility in the admin … Continue reading

This article is now deprecated and the issue has been resolved without changes to core code after our service change. We have recently spotted an issue after traversing our Apache sendmail application to mini_sendmail (read more about the change). In Magento's mail headers, the recipient and sender details have both the email address and respective … Continue reading