How to disable PHP 5.3 Deprecated errors

Created on 2010-Feb-05

If you installed PHP 5.3, then you may have noticed many deprecated errors from older web apps and even current ones--like some drupal modules.

NOTICE: this is not a true fix, you could be ignoring critical errors by doing the following... but most likely you should be fine... though make sure you do not log errors, or your log files will quickly grow to an unmanageable size.

anyhow...

via php.ini :

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED
; change this to Off if you still get errors.
display_errors = On
log_errors = Off

after your done... as always, restart apache...

service httpd restart

also, some sites may be using their own .htaccess or error_reporting... therefore you may need to go to affected ones and modify the .htaccess file and insert the following to disable PHP 5.3 ... I had to do this for really old web apps.

php_flag display_errors off
php_flag log_errors off

Tags: php drupal

Magento Featured Products Listing on Home Page

Created on 2010-Mar-25

There are a few articles and extensions I've come across showing how to add "Featured Products" on the home page of Magento. The problem is that none that I have read, seem to fully tackle the issue of being compatible with Magento 1.4.x (Magento 1.4.0.1 at the time of this writing) AND fully using Magento's features while being fairly easy to implement (i.e. without adding complicated, unnecessary,redundant or outdated code)

Tags: magento featured products

phpMyAdmin database export "Save as file" template

Created on 2009-Nov-25

Whenever you do a database backup using phpMyAdmin, you are presented with a default file name structure for saves, usually like so:

__DB__

which basically gives you the name of the database you just backed up. Which is ok, however, most people would also like the date and time stamp included as well...

So...

This is how it's done... replace the above with :

__DB__-%F-%T

or for newer version of phpMyAdmin

@DATABASE@-%F-%T

__DB__ = name of database Example: my_database
%F = Same as "%Y-%m-%d" (year-month-day) Example: 2009-11-25
%T = time stamp . (24 hour format, hour_minute_second) Example: 11_07_31

which will save a file with the naming structure similar to:

my_database-2009-11-25-11_07_31.sql

You can easily use other date/time structure, to suit your personal preference.

Tags: Linux admin mysql

HOW-TO: Install Eaccelerator (Turck MMCache replacement)

Created on 2007-May-14

Install/Update eaccelerator:

cd /ea
rm -rf ./eaccelerator*
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-*
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/eaccelerator/eaccelerator/eAccelerator%200.9.6.1/eaccelerator...
tar xvfj eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2
cd eaccelerator-0.9.6.1
export PHP_PREFIX="/usr/local"
$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
./configure --enable-eaccelerator=shared --with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config
make
make install
cd /tmp
rm -fr /tmp/eaccelerator
mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator
vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Add/Edit right after "Windows Extensions":

zend_extension="/ea/eaccelerator-0.9.5.3/modules/eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="32"

Tags: PHP / MySQL

Magento 1.4 product-name quotes are converted to html and then escaped

Created on 2010-Feb-23

After upgrading from magento 1.3 to 1.4, if your product headings used quotes " " or ampersands & , then magento may convert these into HTML and then escape that HTML counterparts hence showing e.g.:

"Thermo Balance" Tub & Shower Valve Rough In Valve

like:

"Thermo Balance" Tub & Shower Valve Rough In Valve

The fix is to go into "view.phtml" and change:

            <h1 class="product-name">
                
<?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()), 'name') ?>

            </h1>

to

            <h1 class="product-name">
                
<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName())?>

            </h1>

Tags: howto magento

How to remove <br /> added by magento.

Created on 2010-Feb-16

In case you're wondering why your product description is all spaced out, then that's because magento is adding automatic line breaks into the content description area...

To get rid of it... look for

nl2br

specifically in description.phtml you'll see

<div class="std">
    
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->productAttribute($this->getProduct(), nl2br($this->getProduct()->getDescription()), 'description') ?>

</div>

it should look like this after you take the nl2br out:

<div class="std">
    
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->productAttribute($this->getProduct(), ($this->getProduct()->getDescription()), 'description') ?>

</div>

Tags: magento code

Magento 1.4 toolbar error (How to properly upgrade to Magento 1.4)

Created on 2010-Mar-04

In case you upgraded to magento 1.4, and noticed that your category listings that require pagination (page 1, 2, 3) no longer show, here's the fix...

1. copy the new 1.4 toolbar.phtml from

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml

and paste it into your custom theme

app/design/frontend/*/YOURTHEME/template/catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml

(note: make sure you put this into your currently used theme directory. If you installed a theme via Admin-->System-->Design then get the name of the theme from there)

2. edit your app/design/frontend/*/YOURTHEME/layout/catalog.xml

Find:

<block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

Tags: magento

How to remove Yoast MetaRobots from Magento

Created on 2010-Mar-03

In case you want to upgrade to magento 1.4, and have Yoast MetaRobots installed, you'll have to uninstall it first, since it's not compatible with 1.4.

Here's how:

1. uninstall it from magento connect
2. Remove the config xml file from /app/etc/modules/Yoast_Metarobots.xml
3. Remove the module files and directories from /app/code/community/yoast/Metarobots/
4.Clear your cache
SSH into your root magento directory and:

rm -rf var/cache/*

5. run this SQL query (easily done in phpMyAdmin)

DELETE FROM `eav_attribute` WHERE `eav_attribute`.`attribute_code` = 'meta_robots';
DELETE FROM `core_resource` WHERE CODE = 'metarobots_setup';

You should be good to go after this...

Tags: magento extensions

Drupal: How to create a View that shows results only from the current node

Created on 2010-Feb-06

Let's say you want to create a Views block that shows on a bunch of different pages/nodes that have multiple (imagefield) images per page, and you want the block to dynamically display ONLY the images from the particular node you're on--and not display images from other nodes.

This is how you would do it:

1. Create your view as you normally would.
2. Add "Node: Nid" under "Arguments".
3. Select "Provide Default Argument" under "Action to take if argument is not present:"
4. Select "Node ID from URL" under "Default argument type:"
5. Leave everything else as is...
6. Hit "Update" and then "Save"... and you're done.

Tags: Drupal

How to search and replace text in multiple files in linux

Created on 2010-Feb-04

Here's how to replace a string of text in multiple files under a specific directory and all it's sub directories.

cd /to/directory/containing/files
find . -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e "s/OLDSTRING/'NEWSTRING'/g;"

Real world example:

Let's say we want to replace the following in every .php file:

'profile', 'load_profile'

with new string

'profile_load_profile'

Hence, we do the following...

cd /home
find ./ -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e "s/'profile', 'load_profile'/'profile_load_profile'/g;"

Tags: linux admin php

How to install mod_expires using custombuild

Created on 2010-Feb-04

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
mkdir -p custom/ap2
cp configure/ap2/configure.apache custom/ap2/configure.apache
vi custom/ap2/configure.apache

add: --enable-expires

so it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
"./configure" \
        "--prefix=/etc/httpd" \
        "--exec-prefix=/etc/httpd" \
        "--bindir=/usr/bin" \
        "--sbindir=/usr/sbin" \
        "--sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf" \
        "--enable-so" \
        "--enable-dav" \
        "--enable-dav-fs" \
        "--enable-dav-lock" \
        "--enable-suexec" \
        "--enable-deflate" \
        "--enable-unique-id" \
        "--with-suexec-caller=apache" \
        "--with-suexec-docroot=/" \
        "--with-suexec-gidmin=100" \
        "--with-suexec-logfile=/var/log/httpd/suexec_log" \
        "--with-suexec-uidmin=100" \
        "--with-suexec-userdir=public_html" \
        "--with-suexec-bin=/usr/sbin/suexec" \
        "--with-included-apr" \
        "--with-pcre=/usr/local" \
        "--includedir=/usr/include/apache" \
        "--libexecdir=/usr/lib/apache" \
        "--datadir=/var/www" \
        "--localstatedir=/var" \
        "--enable-logio" \
        "--enable-ssl" \
        "--enable-rewrite" \
        "--enable-proxy" \
        "--with-ssl=/usr" \
        "--enable-headers" \
        "--enable-expires"

./build clean
./build apache
service httpd restart

you may need to recompile php after this

./build php

Tags: linux apache

Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable.

Created on 2010-Jan-27

if you try running the following:

phpize

and get this error

$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.

Then it's because you don't have autoconf installed.

To fix this error, do the following:

yum install autoconf

or you can install from source (if you want to use the latest version)


cd /usr/local/src/

/* find latest version of m4 here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/ */

Tags: Server Linux

How to remove Paypal Quick Checkout button from Magento when using Paypal.

Created on 2009-Dec-03

If you disable "guest checkout" in magento -- and are using PayPal -- guest check is still possible via Paypal button--it will show below the "Proceed to Checkout" button.

In order to completely remove the possibility of Guest checkout, you'll need to alter the following:

app/design/frondend/default/YOURTEMPLATE/template/paypal/link.phtml

  • copy link.phtml to link-01.phtml or whatever
  • open/edit link.phtml and delete (or comment out) everything.
Tags: paypal magento

How to add custom javascript into the drupal webform module <form> <submit>

Created on 2009-Dec-01

Recently, one of our clients asked to have custom tracking code implemented into their form submissions.

Since the client's site is built on Drupal, all forms are dynamically generated using the Webform module.

Their marketing company instructed us to add an 'onclick' code to :

<input type="submit" class="form-submit" value="Receive Coupons" id="edit-submit" name="op" onclick=tracking("track_submit_quote") />

However, since the Webform module creates all forms dynamically, there was no convenient way of hard coding the code into the form... i.e. there was no way for this to be done via webform admin.

Tags: Drupal module