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Symfony2 data fixtures setup

Symfony2 data fixtures setup

First time I was wondering: what will I do with this? Do I need data fixtures?

When started project, soon I realized that fixtures is a must in my project. Read more

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HowTo – “Google +1″ extension for Magento

HowTo – “Google +1″ extension for Magento

Embedding Google’s +1 button is pretty easy and straightforward. All it takes is to include 2 code snippets in your web page. One goes in the header of the page, and the other one goes to wherever where you want the +1 button to render. To do so all you need is to follow the official Google guideline outlined here.

With that in mind, let’s build us Magento extension, preferably the non-obtrusive one. Read more

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Inchoo Team Segmentation

Inchoo Team Segmentation

Customer segmentation is one of the most powerful tools used by marketers today. Magento offers some great segmentation options you can use out of the box with its Enterprise Edition. But, here we’ve done some of the work for you – check out the latest Inchoo Team Segmentation!

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Develop your own Magento mobile application

Develop your own Magento mobile application

Hi everybody.

Do you want to develop your own Magento mobile application?

Great! I’ll give you some pointers on how to get a grasp on Magento’s XMLConnect, an extension that serves Magento Mobile application.
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Enhanced Catalog Product Grid – Custom Attribute Filter

Enhanced Catalog Product Grid – Custom Attribute Filter

Sometimes one needs to have additional filtering criteria inside of a catalog’s product grid. Here is an extension that adds custom product attribute to search filter. You can choose to use any product attribute and it will be shown in the product grid.

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Robots.txt vs meta tag conflicts

Robots.txt vs meta tag conflicts

Have you ever wondered what would resolve if your robtos.txt and your meta tags had conflicting directives regarding content indexing? Don’t worry, this question can be a real challenge to even very advanced SEOs. To make this issue a bit clearer to the general public, I decided to make this guide that will show you exactly what happens in these situations. Read more

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TWIG with wordpress part2

TWIG with wordpress part2

Using TWIG plug in we made in part1 of this article

It’s highly advised to read part1 first to understand what’s going on.

When our TWIG engine autoloader is ready, and our plugin is activated from wp-admin side, we can go to wordpress themes folder and make new theme folder. Inside our theme folder, let’s make starter file: ‘index.php’ slightly modified to fit our needs: Read more

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TWIG with WordPress part1

TWIG with WordPress part1

Making TWIG autoload from WP plugin

Maybe someone will say: this is a crazy idea. Why would someone want to do that?
Maybe it really is crazy, but I would say: why not? Read more

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Parsing Amazon affiliate links in WordPress

Parsing Amazon affiliate links in WordPress

Recently my team had problem with Amazon affiliate links on our web site.
On the web, we have wordpress installation and inside main content of web page we have some Amazon affiliate links that entered in the content few years ago and not working any more because Amazon changed API somehow. I searched the web for some new version of wordpress plug-in for new API version, because our old plug-in for displaying that links properly was turned off.

FYI that links inside content look like this: Read more

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Symfony2 – Internal server error 500

Symfony2 – Internal server error 500

Did you ever had problems with Internal server error 500 with symfony2? I did few days ago. When I open my web application in development mode (http://mysymfony2url/app_dev.php/something) It works OK, but when I tried to open it in ‘production’ mode I always got ‘Internal server error 500′ response, so I decided to look at error.log inside my localhost to see what is happening.
Here is what I saw there: Read more

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