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Symfony2 DBAL QueryBuilder

Symfony2 DBAL QueryBuilder

ba1969@sxc.hu

Sometimes, when we have some relatively complex queries to write, it’s so long and inflexible statement that it’s pretty hard to understand few days after we wrote it, or we have to add some dynamic parameters or conditions that writing plain DBAL statement could be real nightmare … Read more

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Geocoding Customer Addresses in Magento via Google Maps

Geocoding Customer Addresses in Magento via Google Maps

Geocoding is the process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes)… so says Wikipedia. Geocoding an address is pretty simple if you are using Google Maps API. Since all we do here is Magento, let me show you how easily you can geocode customer address. Read more

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Delete test orders in Magento

Delete test orders in Magento

You got a Magento project to develop, you created a Magento theme, you placed initial products and categories and you also placed some test orders to see if Shipping and Payment methods work as expected. Everything seems to be cool and the client wishes to launch the site. You launch it. When you enter the administration for the first time after the launch, you will see all your test orders there. You know those should be deleted. But how?
This is a new version of the same article.
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Display HTML code (block) of product options in Magento

Display HTML code (block) of product options in Magento

This simple helper will help you to display html code of your product options. It works with simple, virtual and configurable products. I believe you can use the same approach for other product types as well.

Getting HTML code for options of configurable products its little different from simple and virtual (well they are more or less same).

Update: for all types in configurable product.

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Symfony2 DBAL array parameters

Symfony2 DBAL array parameters

wimster@sxc.hu

Few days ago I had to use DBAL statement that will execute SQL IN(somearray) statement.

Considering that I used Doctrine DBAL in this part of code, I had to find the proper way of doing it.
I wrote some basic things about using Doctrine DBAL inside Symfony2 project, but I didn’t ever need this one before until now … Read more

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MyDeals.cz

As you probably noticed by now, our company specializes in development of Daily Deal websites. This time you can meet MyDeals site from wonderful Czech Republic. Websites are developed in partnership with Kolektiva Group and Rebate Networks. If your path gets you to Praha or Brno, make sure to check their daily deal offers.

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Kolektiva & FunDeal

We expanded the boundaries of Magento again by creating a number of Daily Deal websites in Balkan region. This time it is for 6 European countries where Kolektiva is the #1 shopping social website. They are: Kolektiva Croatia, Kolektiva Serbia, Kolektiva Slovenia, FunDeal Romania, Kolektiva Bulgaria and Kolektiva Macedonia. Websites are developed in partnership with Kolektiva Group and Rebate Networks. Let the Cyrillic alphabet and Lightning Speed not confuse you. This is really tailored solution based on Magento Professional Edition. We need to thank Croatian company Plus.hr that did a terrific job with hosting configuration.

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Deal24

Deal24 is a Daily Deal business operating in four Baltic countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. These websites use custom-built Magento platform, developed by Inchoo. Project is developed in partnership with Kolektiva and Rebate Networks. So, if you are traveling to Baltic region, check out their Daily Deal offer.

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Using custom php.ini file with php CLI

Using custom php.ini  file with php CLI

pk2000@sxc.hu

Considering that I have never been real Linux user before, there was few things that I had to learn to successfully handle my code on server through SSH.

One of these things is forcing php CLI to use my custom php.ini file on server.

Let me start this story from beginning … Read more

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Reusing Magento’s calendar control

Reusing Magento’s calendar control

One of the cool things in Magento is that there is so many controls (widgets, blocks), etc. that you can reuse on the frontend or on the backend. One such control is the calendar control. Calendar control is mostly just used on the backend, aka “adminhtml” area. You can easily figure that one out if you do a quick search for a “Calendar.setup” string on “app/design” folder, in which case you would get several search results but all from “app/design/adminhtml/” folder. Read more

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