Magento has a wonderful architecture behind its system that relies on us knowing where the files should be placed and how to structure our templates and modules. In this tutorial, we will learn about this architecture and how it applies to development with Magento. We will learn: • Where everything is within Magento • What all the base directory files and folders do • The basics of how the template
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No, not those privates. If you need help with those, this book might help. One question I get over and over again when talking about Unit Testing is this: "How do I test the private attributes and methods of my objects?"
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If you’re anything like me, you’d sooner forgo water than Firebug when working on a web project. The little ’bug is a fantastically useful HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax debugger. But did you know it can also be used to debug PHP? Yes, thanks to an additional Firefox extension called FirePHP.
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The first behavioral pattern of this part of the series is named Chain of Responsibility. Its intent is organizing a chain of objects to handle a request such as a method call. When a ConcreteHandler does not know how to satisfy a request from a Client, or it is not designed at all to do so, it delegates to the next Handler in the chain, which it maintains a reference to.
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Adam Leggett talks about how he has been using Codesion for their hosted subversion service.
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There might be situation where you need to change php configuration values when you work on server. In local apache server, you can easily change the php configuration values using php.ini file from directory. But what will you do as php.ini is not visible on server ? The solution is .htaccess which is visible on server(.htaccess invisible ?). Using .htaccess you can change the php configuration
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In this post I want to explain how to insert encrypted password while registration and accessing the same with login time. I had implement this at labs.9lessons.info login page. I'm just storing encrypted user password in database. Demo username ='test' and password = 'test'
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Web application caching is the process of storing dynamically generated data for reuse and leaving data closer to the end user. Caching can be used at a variety of levels to improve web application performance. Generally, caching reduces work load and results in users receiving content faster. Implementing a cache can be complex; often the simplest forms of caching produce the quickest and most c
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Home of Page module shows ID, Name, Full Path, Status and Actions.
We use jquery dataTables to show our information. This will allow us to sort by each column, display different number of rows and seach.
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Compiling Subversion 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny (FSFS backend - apache2) bug workaround
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I’m a planning whore. It’s true. I’m one of those weirdos that really enjoys creating data flows, use cases, wireframes, and functional requirements documents. My bizarre predalictions aside, wireframes are a critical part of planning any website or web based application.
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Writing code is easy. Instantiating objects, calling methods, memorising functions (or using the documentation instead); these are all trivial tasks that we have all taken time to study and practise. But engineering software is so much more than coding. As a software engineer you take on several roles throughout the software development life cycle. Let us take a look at some key roles that develo
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In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn’t.
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This month not much changed in the index. Objective-C and Go are still scoring all time highs, while staying close to each other. There are 4 programming languages that have a realistic chance of entering the top 20 next month. These are educational language Scratch, functional language Erlang and JVM languages Scala and JavaFX Script.
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PHP can be extremely useful when you are working on web applications or web services, they quickly allow them to be built and keep the app relatively lightweight. Whether your fluent in PHP or not, PHP frameworks can be huge timesavers for anyone creating apps or softwares and they have a pretty gentle learning curve.
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