One of the most glaring omissions of magento is a way of blocking users. Currently your only option when faced with a user you wish to ban from the site is to do some kind of IP blocking in your web server configuration, or delete the user account. Neither of those options is really useful, […]
Update: I’ve fixed a couple of issues with the code in this post, based on the comments in this post on the magento forums. One of the nice features of Magento is the extensive SOAP api it provides for integrating magento with your own or third party applications. However, when it comes to extending that API […]
There’s an update to this article here. The below article is here as tutorial for writing a helper in Magento, but if you just want to get the visitor IP behind cloudflare you’re better using the ‘proper’ method described here (click the ‘here’, it’s a link despite my stupid CSS not making it obvious!) This […]