find / -type f -size +30000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $5 “: ” $9 }’ |sort -n

Helps if you are running out of space. It can take a while to complete though so have patience!

EG .html files over 28 days old

find -name “*.html” -mtime +28 -type f -exec rm {} \;

I had a <select> which displayed all the products and when the selected option value changed it would perform an ajax request and load the products options to be displayed below the product.

This worked like a charm however I needed to ensure that when I was viewing a subscription the form was preloaded with the chosen product option value and also the product options. So i needed to figure check to see if there was product and if so trigger the change. This can be done like so:

$('#subscription_type_product_id').change(function(){
        //Code here for the ajax request to load product options...
});

Above was the original .change() function. Now to trigger the above we simply call:

$('#subscription_type_product_id').trigger('change');

Please note that the trigger needed to be placed after the original .change() declaration.

The database was very helpful. With the query:

select mail_name,name,password
from accounts,mail,domains
where mail.account_id=accounts.id
and mail.dom_id = domains.id where name = "domain.com";

From here it showed a list of all the emails under a set domain together with their passwords.

The problem is that the mime types were not up-to-date so it thought they were zip files.

In order to fix this I added the following to my /etc/mime.types

 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet xlsx
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow ppsx
 application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12 .docm
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template dotx
 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12 potm
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx
 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12 ppam
 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12 ppsm
 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12 pptm
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx
 application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12 xlam
 application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12 xlsb
 application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12 xlsm
 application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12 xltm
 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template xltx

These are the new mime types for things like docx and xlsx etc.

A quick restart of apache with:

apachectl restart

And the problem was no more.

The error was:

“Error parsing XML; message from parser is: The entity “Acirc” was referenced, but not declared.”

After hunting around and a bit of searching on the net, the issued stemmed from having a `£` in a product’s option name. Removing the `£` sign seemed to fix the issue. So if you ever run into this issue it would be wise to check if there are any £ signs in your xml.

Strange error so I thought I would note it here for future ref and others to see.

The file you need to look in is:

/shop/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml

Remember default/default should be changed to your current interface and theme for the site.

In this file around line 46 you should see a line of code looking like this:

__('Category') ?>

Change this to whatever you want to display eg. ‘Brand’. So my line will now look like:

__('Brand') ?>

Save the file and hit refresh and voila! New title in your layered navigation.

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 “en_US”.

Also the template could differ, we were using the default template.

Now in the translate.csv file add the following lines:

“My Cart (%s item)”, “My Basket (%s item)”
“My Cart (%s items)”, “My Basket (%s items)”
“My Cart”, “My Basket”

Save the file and upload it to the location above. Login to the admin and refresh the cache by going to System->Cache Management. Select refresh in the drop down and press “Save Cache Settings”

Refresh your website front end to notice the difference.

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 do but I feared that I would need to be doing it again this time next year.

The solution was to use PHP to output the current year.

   echo date("Y");

If your server doesn’t support PHP check see if there are any other server side scripting languages such as ASP, Perl, Python or Ruby etc They all have similar functions for returning the current year.

After a bit of searching with google I came across FFMPEG which turned made the task really easy.

ffmpeg -i input.flv -an -vcodec copy output.flv

-i is the input fil
-an disables the audio which is really important here.
-vcodec copy ensures that the codec of the input file is used for the output file.

output.flv is the name of the output file.

Hope that you find this useful! I know it saved me some time!