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Utilizing Magento Power within Facebook

Utilizing Magento Power within Facebook

We bring you a short article on a new platform that actually enables you to use Magento within Facebook – we’ve been in touch with the Sortal team, the brains behind this, and what they have to present is very exciting – we’re still checking it out in detail, but we wanted to give them a chance to present their platform in a guest blog post to everyone following Inchoo as it looks very promising. So, make sure to read on…  Read more

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Symfony2 registering Doctrine Event Listeners

Symfony2 registering Doctrine Event Listeners

by alaasafei/sxc.hu

Handling for example status change inside one entity and automatic updating status on another entity is not so trivial task. We should be aware of possible status combinations depending of actions taken. Read more

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New Croatian version of our website

New Croatian version of our website

Yesterday we launched a new, redesigned version of our Croatian website – inchoo.hr. The new design follows the inchoo.net’s look and feel with a little twist in the header to improve the differentiation of the two websites. The difference is obvious in the color scheme and contour of our hometown Osijek that can be seen in the header. Read more

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Inchooers strike back (with a golf club)

Inchooers strike back (with a golf club)

Pop-quiz: Where can you listen to high-level Magento development lectures, experience amazing cuisine that caters to vegetarians and meatlovers alike, and then swing away on the golf course for as long as you can – all in the same day? Read more

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How do rel=”next” and rel=”prev” work?

How do rel=”next” and rel=”prev” work?

Image by boris_licina

When dealing with online stores with a lot of products, pagination on category pages can get really problematic for search engines. Link juice gets distributed all over the place, your internal linking structure is terrible, indexing of deep page products is difficult and anchor text values that pagination sends have nothing to do with the content of the page, but there was no better way to do it. It came down to choosing between SEO and usability. Read more

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Symfony2 translating validator messages

Symfony2 translating validator messages

After some digging and searching, I found the way that suit me best for translating messages from validation config file. I like to use yml format so let me show how I did it: Read more

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Creating simple Symfony2 service

Creating simple Symfony2 service

I am not talking about web services, but I am talking about symfony2 service container and the way of basic creating services inside Symfony2 project that are accessible from all other bundles via service container.

Why do I need to make some part of code like service inside Symfony2 anyway?

There is one possible problem: Read more

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Symfony2 translator

Symfony2 translator

Using built – in translator with Symfony2 project is pretty simple.

First make sure you enabled it in main config file: config.yml Read more

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Symfony2 REST

Symfony2 REST

Recently I started to write web services in my Symfony2 project that will provide JSON data for using with mobile and other devices that will consume that.

On the mobile side, RESTKIT will be used to connect to my services, and on my (web) side I used Symfony2 (of course).

So, let’s write a simple web service: Read more

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