As usual, I’m sharing a solution a problem that I personally encountered and couldn’t find a great solution for. So I’ve been using my laptop more and more as my local development environment in order to keep things private and secure while in the dev stage. Among learning how to fully utilize SVN locally, I’ve been trying to setup my laptop to be a fully functional server while also being extremely easy to maintain and change my environment on the fly. To do this, I’m running MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) available for free at mamp.info as well as the Zend Framework bundled with Zend Tool.
After my own frustrations and time wasted trying to solve an issue that Magento’s core really should handle better, I finally found a way to enable all custom statuses and manual overrides on Sales/Orders. This little tutorial will help you setup a module to override the core and hopefully help you find peace to a very frustrating issue in the core.
As a developer, I’m always looking for ways to improve my coding practices and efficiency. In the programming world, I work almost completely with frameworks such as Zend and CodeIgnitor using MVC at it’s fullest. On the front-end, I’ve learned to use Blueprint CSS combined with semantic markup to standardize my layouts. But now, I’ve [...]
There are many ways to communicate and store data from front-end to back-end, but many require AJAX which may take too much time to develop or might not fit the project correctly. A neat alternative to save data and be able to access that data from the server is using browser cookies. Cookies can be created and destroyed by javascript, and while the syntax can be confusing, I’ve gathered this little script that will make it easier to use…
There are SO MANY different types of lightbox scripts in the wild, and while most of them are absolutely fantastic (shadowbox being one of my favorites) most of them are very limited in the control that they give you over the style, function and code. To make things worse, most of these lightbox scripts are also 5k or bigger, which is 5k more than you need sometimes. If you’re like me, and you do a lot of customization or want to tweak your code to be as fast as possible, then you’ll want this simple little jquery lightbox plugin. Style your lightbox exactly how you’d like and then simple invoke the modal() function and you’ll be able to trigger the lightbox.
It seems my posts lately are always in relation to solving a problem or answering a question for someone else. If you’re looking for a way to display categories in the sidebar, change category display, or create a category menu then this post is probably for you.
