Joomla – Annoying plgContentcsspopup – Error

For over 3 weeks I have had an irritating error  on 1 of my joomla 1.5.x sites. Warning: Parameter 3 to plgContentcsspopup::onPrepareContent() expected to libraries/joomla/event/event.php on line 69 After hours on end of hunting down  this error, ready to give up.  I figured to try disable all content related plugins. And what do you know, some plugin [...]

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Programatically add multiple products to a cart

After a few days of hunting for a solution, I finally bumped into this snippet and boy did I feel dumb. Anyway, I hope someone will find this useful. try{ $cart = new Mage_Checkout_Model_Cart(); $cart->truncate();//clear existing cart items $cart->init(); $cart->addProductsByIds($productIds); $cart->save(); } catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); } Of course the above snippet will not work [...]

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Buzz-er canned, is social networking really beneficial?

More than 3 months ago I decided to call it quits on google buzz. I just didn’t see the relevance of it all. Any who, I only realised today that I still had a feed and icon running on my site (kind of gives you an idea of how many visitors I actually get, coz [...]

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Joomla Auto-Blogging with K2 & Feed Gator

Having been working on auto-blogging with WordPress for a few months now and I wondered aloud as to whether there was anything that could match some of the auto-blogging plugins available in Joomla. I was quite chuffed to discover a tool called Feed Gator. Apparently its been around since Joomla 1.0 days; I didn’t know that, [...]

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Magento Extension | WDCA Enhanced Product Grid Extension

An excellent extension that allows you to view product thumbnails and customise the columns to what you need and what is relevant. Its a shame that its not compatible with the Enterprise Edition. Extension key : magento-community/TBT_Enhancedgrid Download: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/WDCA/extension/748/enhanced-product-grid

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Magento Connect 404 Error – in Magento CE 1.4.x

If we were to count the number of annoying errors one encounters in Magento; we’d need an entire century. 1 of them comes after you upgrade Magento CE to 1.4.x. This happens when you try to access the Magento Connector.  You get a 404 Error page no matter how you try to access the Connector. [...]

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Changing the currency symbol

I donno why things have to  be so difficult to do in magento . Displaying a  currency is simple enough, you go into the admin section and modify the currency as you want. However if you want to change the symbol, then its another typical magento nightmare. Having chosen my site to use Zim Dollar [...]

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Joomla – fetching ‘GET’ Variable the proper way

So apparently there’s a lot of security risks in using our traditional $_GET['item'] within our custom developed modules / extensions. I for one am guilty of using a lot of GETs simply because they’re easy and pretty straight forward. So in order to dispense the ‘risk’ and combat some known exploits we’re advised to use [...]

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Comments on your Desktop with WP-Comments-Notifier

I love tools that make life easier and in some way efficient. This little desktop tool is perfect for high traffic; high comments blogs. Give it a try on your blogs and life will be that much more easier without having to login to the backend to approve/ delete user comments. wp-comments-notifier is an open [...]

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Magento – Proper use of the ‘GET’ Variable

Once you start doing some Magento coding, you may be faced with loads of errors if you try to use the $_GET['variable'] within functions or some views. So instead try using $this->getRequest()->getParam(‘variable’);

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