PHP Tips and Tricks

How to build form using ini files.
Example includes Zend_Form elements, Zend_Validate and File uploads using Zend_File_Transfer.
Protected method to retrieve form config and fill data into selectbox.
protected function prepareProductForm()
{
$form = new Application_Form( ‘admin/product’ );
$categories = array( ‘Select Category’ );
foreach( Application_Category::getCategories() as $category )
{
$categories[$category->categoryId] = $category->name;
}
$form->getElement( ‘categoryId’ )->setMultiOptions( $categories );
return $form;
}
This method will render form from and [...]

After upgrade from 1.3.2.4 to 1.4.0.1 using MagentoConnect we got exception in Admin/System page.
After checks we have figured out that the file was missing in upgrade package for Magento Core Modules.
File was used by system.xml located in Mage/Core/etc/.
In order to fix this you have to download Magento package 1.4.0.1 from website and add missing file [...]

After upgrade Magento to 1.4.0.1 I’ve got such an error.
The problem is that Varien did not managed to add removal deprecated code/files which overrides Zend’s code.
In order to fix this problem you have to remove folder:
app/code/core/Zend/Cache

Tortoise SVN and other IDE integrated subversion clients was changing format of .svn/* files so that was not possible to use command line subversion client which is more secure.
Finally got upgraded subversion client for Ubuntu Hardy (8.04).
1. Copy source list from: https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/subversion-1.6
2. Add lists to /etc/apt/sources.list at bottom of file - Save file
3. apt-get install subversion
(Here [...]

1. Settings svn:ignore property
svn propset svn:ignore “*” folder1/
svn propset svn:ignore “*” folder2
2. Commit to apply changes.
svn ci -m “Data in these folders will be ignored by svn”
Source: http://www.devcha.com/2008/02/how-to-make-svn-ignore-some-folders.html

We are going to use in our huge auction project Magento Commerce Community edition.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/
Also decided to use ExtJs as user interface rendering engine.
http://www.extjs.com/
To work on server side objects without touching javascript code we decided to use PHP-Ext adapter.
http://php-ext.quimera-solutions.com/
Soon will drop about details. May be will publish Magento module as well.

Currently we are working on social project. The platform that we are using is PHP/MySQL/Drupal.
I’ll list all modules that used to build this website.

My company just got new project making enhanced auction platform.
Requirements are very complex - lot of use cases.
Architecture discussed and clean, the problem is technology. .NET/MSSQL vs PHP/MySQL.
Client likes cheaper solution, but it depends. Here we have two criteria - expenses on development and expenses on support and hosting.
.NET development will not take so much [...]

In order to enclose Drupal node forms with Panels you will need to:
1. Create panel
2. Setup context for corresponding form type (this will add forms section in content selection window)
3. Add form from content selection form and specify node type for which you are going to use this panel.
This is first time that we are [...]