Please Note: This post is more of an anecdotal post as opposed to a tutorial. There are no code samples and the actual code that I discuss may not be 100% accurate as I am typing this at the end of a 12 hour work day. I wanted to get this story out so if there are… Read more »
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New Happenings Coming Soon
I have been relatively quiet about my day job in the past. I was unsure if they would have an appreciation for sharing my knowledge and experiences. However, I have discussed my blog with the company I work for and they have given me their blessing to share more knowledge and some source code (with… Read more »
Getting and Setting Session Variables in Magento
Working in the Magento ecosystem can seem daunting at first. Even experienced PHP programmers have a steep learning curve to work through before they really get the sense that they know what they are doing. One thing that is very easy to do in regular PHP programming is setting a session variable. All you really… Read more »
Magento Debugging Basics
Magento is a big system. If you are developing for Magento it is inevitable that you are going to either need to trace down a big or just figure out how a particular process works. The best thing to do is to start with the controller that is triggered when the process starts. If you… Read more »
Have Your Magento Caches Update Themselves
Magento has a lot of caches. They are (in my opinion) the biggest reason Magento is usable as a platform (If you think Magento runs slowly now – turn them off for a little bit). One thing that I as a programmer find odd is that the caches in Magento are intelligent enough to flag… Read more »
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