This is just a quick post about how to change the “Category” wording on the layered navigation of a site. I needed to change it to “Brand” and it took me a few minutes to locate the correct files as the developer guide lines were not showing up. I thought for this reason I will [...]
Read the rest of this articleA site we were developing needed to have the wording “My Cart” changed to “My Basket” in the header links of the site.
To do this we made a translate.csv file under “/app/design/frontend/default/default/locale/en_GB/”
The “en_GB” could be whatever locale you are using. Our store is setup for the UK so it is “en_GB” the US would be [...]
Just a quick post but it is one that I had to use recently so thought I would quickly make a note of it so that it helps others out.
With the new year coming I had to update a sites copyright year which was displayed in the footer. It was a simple enough thing to [...]
Today I needed to remove sound from an a flash video that was playing in the website. I was hoping that I would not have to get the DVD out and re-encode it for the web as this took me quite some time to get it to the required level of quality/size.
After a bit of [...]
Im uploading this scaffolding class so that hopefully some other people can find use for it. It is based on the excellent tutorial on building a scaffolding class by Ben Hirsch which can be found here http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/39-Creating-A-Scaffold-like-Class-in-PHP-or-An-Automatic-CMS-For-a-Table Sadly i can’t seem to find the original post however I’m sure its nothing a quick google can’t [...]
Read the rest of this articleI had the need to backup an entire site and its content when I couldn’t get access to the FTP details quickly. Luckily the site was just static content so I was able to just use one of the many tools available in a regular linux shell.
Here is the code I typed into my terminal:
wget [...]
I have recently been working quite hard on some projects for work and also I had about a month off over summer.
I have however got a series of updates to add to the site which include a basic framework I made for a project at work and also some tools I have found for web [...]
A php singleton database class which allows your database queries to be performed quickly and with very few lines of code.
Read the rest of this articleIts been a while. Too long in fact! I have updated the gallery with some pics I have taken while out and about.
I need to get some of my other work up here that I think could be useful to other people. My aim is to get my PHP scaffolding class up onto this site. [...]
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