breaking changes
There are some big changes coming in ZenMagick. One of the big concerns was (and still is) the integration (or lack thereof) with zencart. To pave the way for some real improvements for this there has...
View Articlethe crumbtrail saga
I’ve finally written some reasonably easy addition to the ZenMagick PHP templating engine that allows to set the crumbtrail (and other bits, if required) in the actual view. This is something I’ve been...
View Articlenot so weekly update
After having published a first snapshot of the upcoming ZenMagick 0.9.14 it seems time to write about what is new and shiny in the next release. Perhaps the biggest change is that zen-cart is now...
View Articlepricing
This week I have taken another stab at improving the ZenMagick pricing code. The main reason right now is to further reduce the number of SQL queries per request. As part of the process to encapsulate...
View Articlepricing II
I am very close to having the new pricing code pass all shopping cart tests. In fact, one benefit of this change is that for the first time it is possible to run a complete cart test over all products...
View Articlezenmagick.org status
And it happened again. Due to some issues with renewing the domain (the ISP changed owner in between), zenmagick.org is currently down. And thanks to the apparently stupid go daddy it always is a...
View Articleover-overdue ZenMagick update
It’s been a long long time sine I last wrote about what is happening with ZenMagick. For the most part the reason for this is that I haven’t been working on ZenMagick for the last – uhm 3 month or so....
View ArticleWordPress integration from non global namespace
Looks like finally with WordPress 3.4 it will be possible to use the API by loading the WP code from within a class/function. It is amazing that is has taken so long to get this done, but as I remember...
View ArticleRunning PHPUnit tests in a browser
Sometimes it is useful (and required) to run PHPUnit tests in a browser. A great (although stupid example, IMHO) is XCache. It doesn’t work on the command line, so the only way to test anything is in a...
View ArticleCompiling pdo_dblib on CentOS 6 with PHP 5.4
Today I had a quick (second) stab at trying to install pdo_dblib on CentOS6 with Php 5.4. Looking back it was pretty straight forward, but then most things are…. It started with this: pecl install...
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