Tag Archives: Zend Framework

Getting the “right” CMS from your web designer

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Clive Sweeting

One of the questions we get asked time and time again by our web design clients is “what is the best Content Management System?” There’s a short answer to that – there isn’t one. All Content Management Systems have their … Continue reading →

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Customising Magento PDF Invoices to show personalised terms of sale

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Magento is, as everyone knows, an ecommerce platform for the web. But it can also be used as a tool to tie your offline sales to your online sales. I’ve recently been working with a traditional “offline” retailer based in … Continue reading →

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Fixing problems with Magento creating empty invoice PDFs

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

I recently had a problem where Magento was producing the PDF invoice, but no text was visible. After some investigation it turned out it was an issue with the hosting configuration, rather than a problem with Magento at all. Fortunately … Continue reading →

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Importing Magento product data from .csv files

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Magento is a fantastic ecommerce tool, packed full of just about every feature you might possible need – but some tasks are just painful. Importing product data into the catalog is one such thing. Typically you do this via .csv … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Magento core…

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Learning any framework is complex. Learning one as labyrinthine as used by Magento e-Commerce is positively painful. So why not learn from the people who programmed the system? When you are in the Administration interface, note down the url path … Continue reading →

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Finally – the death of PHP4…

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Wordpress 3.2 will only be supported on servers running PHP 5.2 What does this mean for the evolution of PHP as a language? Continue reading →

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Coping with the Seige mentality

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Clive Sweeting

Over the last few days I’ve started to think more carefully about performance optimization, from both the user’s and webserver’s point of view. A few tests using the rather excellent Siege showed huge drop offs in performance when serving quite … Continue reading →

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