When doing Magento optimization, developers are often finding ways to boost performance by turning off some of the core modules that are not needed. There are multiple sites that provide recommendations on what modules should be disabled if not needed. Weee was one of them.
During development of payment method I encountered one issue related to this.
Implementing observer on Magento module
Posted on Category:MagentoThis post describes the steps necessary for creating an Magento Observer
Creating virtual subdomain with htaccess
Posted on Categories:PHP, MySQL, Symfony, UNIX/Linux in generalIn order to create a virtual subdomain in PHP, the following conditions must be fulfilled:
– enabled Apache’s Mod_rewrite module
– existing wildcard DNS record
– properly configured .htaccess file
Getting the backend routing from frontend application in Symfony and vice versa
Posted on Categories:PHP, MySQL, SymfonyWhen using Symfony frontend application it is sometimes necessary to access other application’s routing to create an internal url that points to that application.
In order for that to be posssible, a method for getting the desired application’s routing is required.
Customizing Symfony form rendering by using form formatter
Posted on Category:UncategorizedAlthough you can always customize Symfony’s form by using templates, it is not necesarily the most practical solution. You might want to customize the way Symfony renders the form somewhere where the HTML structure is being generated in the first place. That’s where the form formatter comes in.
Five reasons why I don’t like php templating engine
Posted on Category:PHP, MySQLRecently, I’ve been asked (yet again) by my superiors to use a templating engine on my project. The main reason for this was so that end users can edit the application templates more easily.
Therein lies the first reason:
Creating new relations by using jQuery Autocompleter widget in Symfony
Posted on Categories:PHP, MySQL, SymfonyThis post describes how to create new relation by usin jQuery Autocompleter widget in Symfony project.
Recently, I’ve had a situation where I had to create a form for entering a product details, with a dropdown or autocomplete input for selecting product’s brand. If a user entered a non-existing brand, it had to be automatically created and assigned to product that the user was editing.
Using sfFormExtra Captcha on a Symfony based project
Posted on Categories:PHP, MySQL, SymfonyThis post describes how to quickly implement a Captcha on a project that already uses sfFormExtra Plugin. Since sfFormExtra Plugin already has Captcha integrated, it is not necessary to install sfReCaptcha Plugin.