A few years ago, we wrote a module that would monitor checkout activity ( article) on checkouts and then apply certain business rules based on observations (ie: ban the session after x attempts of a credit card checkout). Another fit of fraudulent activity has started, but for some reason it […]
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We had a spare product that we used in a previous bundle for a sale, but had lost track of it. We wrote a quick and dirty script, to parse through all of our bundles, to find if that product still exists in the bundle.
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While working on a new Magento 2 site, we were trying to customized a menu item to display the current number of items in a user shopping cart, dynamically. For some reason the code was working properly and then suddenly stopped when we added a new patch. The error we […]
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Due to increased BRAM Mastercard Requirements, a Magento customer recently came to us with a request to build a system that verifies the age of a customer after they have purchased a product falling within a specific category of products.
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UPDATE: 10/19/16. It also breaks your attribute editing in some instances: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/53352/magento-1-9-no-upload-image-buttons app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/media/uploader.phtml To fix the product image upload button not loaded in Magento CE 1.9.2.1, I had to add ‘ character in maxUploadFileSizeInBytes value. Change var maxUploadFileSizeInBytes = <!–?php echo $this->getDataMaxSizeInBytes() ?–>; To var maxUploadFileSizeInBytes = […]
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Self signing certificates and MySQL never seem to work the same way each time you set them up on dev servers (maybe we are just cursed). Nothing is more frustrating then trying to connect to an SSL server and getting the dreaded “ERROR [HY000] Unknown Error”. Its like an error […]
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Just a quick tip, but recently we stumbled into a strange situation, when having added our WordPress blog to Varnish, the visual tab went missing in the WP Admin. This seems like a common issue and we tried every fix we found on the web, but to no avail. We […]
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A customer recently setup a new VPS from GoDaddy. As soon as we had setup the code and firewall, we immediately noticed that mail was not being delivered.
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From the “Here we go again” The latest round for Patches from Magento (Supee-7405) is a brand new bundle of critical patches. Just like the previous 6788 version, this is proving to be anything but an easy patch.
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We’ve started to bring another store online recently that was to be added to an existing Magento hosted store. The existing store already had a blog setup and running with the store under a specific sub-directory. The challenge was the we wanted to bring online a new blog instance that […]
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