Over the past 3.5 years, my blog has received 
88,070 SPAM comments. Averaged out, that’s 69 unwanted messages per day. Ouch!
I’ve tried various plugins in an attempt to combat these unsolicited messages but to no avail. Continue reading
$_POST was empty! Firebug showed that the web browser was submitting the form’s data to the server. Yet, for some reason, PHP was not putting the data into the $_POST array. If I switched the form’s action from POST to GET, PHP properly populated $_GET. What was wrong with $_POST?! Continue reading
If code written for Magento is executed outside of Magento—as occurs when running unit tests—Magento’s normal startup process (which registers its autoload functionality) is not run. Without the autoloader in place, the first time PHP encounters a request to initialize a class which it doesn’t recognize, it will error out with a “class not found” error. Also, without Magento’s startup process running, PHP doesn’t know about the Mage family of singleton methods (e.g. Mage::getModel(), Mage::helper()) which are commonly used to create class instances. Continue reading
Using code, how would we give a Magento item a one-time special price then add that item to the shopping cart?
The process is simple:
Yesterday, while building the admin interface for a Magento module, I wanted to populate a select control (a.k.a. combobox or drop-down list) with a custom list of options. Inserting the select control was simple. Building the custom options class also was easy. However, figuring out how to wire in the custom options list took a little bit of time. Continue reading
Thought I would share a few things I recently learned about coordinates when using Zend Framework‘s Zend Pdf library.