During the past 5 years I have been working on eCommerce and always with Magento. Magento “1”. Magento 1 has become the natural option to recommend to anyone who wants to implement a secure, complete, extensible ecommerce site. I have learned a lot while developing on Magento, but also when Read more…
At my company we’ve been using tools like Munin to monitor the server. Munin is a great tool that shows all type of graphs of what’s going on in the server: Apache processes, Varnish memory, Database performance, Server load, Disk usage, Memcache performance… and a lot more. Basically, you can Read more…
The «Class “Mage” not found» issue has been recently a headache in most of our projects. I could say that there was a specific change eventually (either a package update, package installation, configuration change…) that make this error appear. The problem is not the error itself, the problem is that Read more…
I was lazy enough to look up on Google before checking my Magento database. I found nothing regarding where Custom Variables are stored in a Magento Database. And that’s normal. Custom Variables are stored in: core_variable core_variable_value
We have recently had an issue with a weird 404 page in Magento. Basically, when accessing to some stores, we got a 404 page: but not the 404 page when a page doesn’t exist. It was a 404 Magento page, different than the ordinary ones. After investigating we have finally Read more…
Recently I asked a question on Stackoverflow about a weird issue when using Paypal Express in Magento. If the customer is registered during the payment process, when the order is completed, the customer is not assigned to any group and no taxes are applied to the order. I finally found Read more…
Magento has a very nice script on the shell directory called “log.php”. You can do many things with it, these are the 2 most interesting ones for me: Wiew the log data’s size Clean log data based on a number of days:
Magento had been using the same theme during years. It was cool at first… but time went on, web design changes and the initially cool theme ended up being something to get rid of as soon as you installed Magento from the scratch. But this has finally changed and Magento Read more…
Today one of my colleagues shared a really nice extension with me: Magento Cron Scheduler. This extension lets you easily list and manage all the scheduled tasks in Magento, it also shows the the processes that will run in the following hours and the ones that were already executed. Available Read more…
When having many different servers I have faced more than once issues related to module installation/upgrades. Here you have a quick script that upgrades all modules from terminal: