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Hide long category list in prestashop admin

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:35:51 +0000

This is a very quick fix for people having a very long list of categories inside prestashop.
The problem occurs because in the product edit page from admin you need to scroll a lot to get to the save button each time.

Enough with the talking, here is the piece of code:
open admin/tabs/AdminProducts.php
replace:

                        <td class="col-left">'.$this->l('Catalog:').'td>
                        <td>
                            <div style="overflow: auto; min-height: 300px; padding-top: 0.6em;" id="categoryList">

with:

                         <td class="col-left"><a onclick="javascript:openCloseLayer(\'categoryList\');return false;" href="#">'.$this->l('Catalog:').'a>td>
                        <td>
                            <div style="display:none; overflow: auto; min-height: 300px; padding-top: 0.6em;" id="categoryList">

cakephp page title in view cake1.3

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:06:32 +0000

In order to change page title in cakephp inside a view just use the code bellow
$this->set('title_for_layout', 'my cakephp page title');

remove comparison links from magento

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:56:02 +0000

Copy app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product/Compare.php
to app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product/ (create missing directories)

Edit
app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product/Compare.php
after:

public function getAddUrl($product)
{

add:

return false;

SVN set up for multiple projects

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:30:48 +0000

just a quick tutorial how to set up subversion, aka SVN to be used with multiple projects.

Setting up only one repository has the downside of incrementing revision number for all the projects no matter what project is modified. The logs tend to be messy too which I don’t like.

so let’s begin:

1. create a repository for let’s say projects

svnadmin create /home/demo/repo/project1

svnadmin create /home/demo/repo/project2

where repo, project1 and project2 are all directories that must be previously created

2. import the projects

a. copy the projects to the server – let’s say to /home/demo/project1 and /home/demo/project2

b. execute

svn import /home/demo/project1 file:///home/demo/repo/project1 -m “initial import of project1″

svn import /home/demo/project2 file:///home/demo/repo/project2 -m “initial import of project2″

Note: I am not using trunk branches and tags directories here just to keep things simple.

3. start up the server so we can checkout the projects remotely

svnserve -d -r /home/demo/repo/

Please note that using svnserve you can grant read/write permission to a certain user. Because we have separate repositories you need to configure the permissions for each repository. This is a little downside with having multiple repositories but I can live with that

4. setting up permissions

each repository will have a conf/svnserve.conf and a conf/passwd file. Edit svnserve.conf and add under [general]:

yourSvnUserForProject1 = write
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = project1

edit passwd:

yourSvnUserForProject1=aPassword

5. done install on your local pc TortoiseSVN, create a dir where you want the project 1 do be checkout, right click->checkout add svn://serveip/repo/project1 as url and then you will be asked for username pass (yourSvnUserForProject1=aPassword)

6. of course you also need to checkout the project to where your website will be live:

svn co svn://serverip/repo/project1

or if your website is already live and don’t want a downtime:
svn co svn://serverip/project1/ ./ –username xxx –password xxx –force

There is a lot more where it comes to subversion but I hope managing multiple projects with svn in the aproach I choose will prove to help others too.

Install SVN on CentOS problem

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:15:42 +0000

I run into a problem when installing subversion so if you have the same problem here it is:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

In order to solve it type this as root:

wget http://yum.trixbox.org/centos/5/RPMS/perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -i perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm
yum install subversion

That’s it! if you have questions please ask.

Oracle Recommends Achievo ATK PHP Framework

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:41:00 +0000

OTN (Oracle Technology Network) writes about how to develop a complete PHP application with no more than 30 lines of code using ATK PHP Framework.

I must admit they have a great and simple to follow tutorial. I am a fan of CakePHP framework unfortunately

However it caught my interest and plan to give it a go today and see how I can flex it’s muscles.

The 30 lines application tutorial can be found here
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/jansch_atk.html

PHP Local Date

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:18:37 +0000

Using date and time functions in PHP is as easy as it gets. However there are times when the website you build is addressed to a non-English audience, let’s say Greek.

We know that date(“F”) will echo “January” if we are in January and so on. So what if we wanted to echo the current month in Greek (January = Ιανουάριος)?

The following code snipped will say everything it needs to:
setlocale(LC_TIME, ‘greek’);
echo strftime(“%B”); //Ιανουάριος

Note: On some windows systems the above code won’t work so you may want to try:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ‘greek’);
setlocale(LC_TIME, ‘greek’);
echo strftime(“%B”); //Ιανουάριος

CakeFest Argentina

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:47:34 +0000

The only official gathering organized by the Cake Software Foundation, cakeFest will offer talks and workshops given by developers from the cakePHP community:
* Garret Woodworth: Keynote
* Nate Abele: Keynote
* Larry E. Masters: Keynote
* Felix Geisendörfer: Using jQuery with CakePHP
* Felix Geisendörfer: GIT for CakePHP projects
* Tim Koschützki: Unit Testing in CakePHP
* Mariano Iglesias: Internationalization made easy with CakePHP
* Mariano Iglesias: Behaviors en CakePHP
* Mariano Iglesias: Desarrollando shells
* Fabián Ramirez: CakePHP en las grandes empresas con casos reales
* Alejandro López Hernández: CakePHP en el Hospital General de México
* Martín Radosta: Seguridad a nivel de registro basada en SQL
* Guillermo Nuñez: Microformatos, su aplicación y helpers en CakePHP
* Ryan Peterson: Collective Inteligence algorithms with CakePHP

CakeFest will begin 2 dec this year in Argentina.

PHP & Oracle – Singapore Meeting

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:59:38 +0000

I recently invested some of my time to watch the PHP & Oracle presentation video from the meeting which took place this month in Singapore:

If you are in the PHP business it really worth considering porting your database to Oracle 10gR2 or 11g and using oci8 as oracle datasource for your application.

Just some of the performance features you will get:
-prefetching rows (reducing round trips from web to database servers)
guidelines to follow when prefetching rows:
* don’t prefetch more data than necessary
* use SQL to process data especially analytics functions

-binding scalars
(avoiding double parsing SQL statements like SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE user_id=2 and SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE user_id=3)
A great advantage is that avoids SQL injections too!

-transactions

-PL/SQL

-array binds

-statement cache