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, […]
This is more of a memo for me than a post for the rest of you, but might be useful if you want to create a bootable USB disk from a windows box (for an example, I used it to create a windows 8 installation drive) Information taken verbatim from this post on the […]
Just a quick and dirty (no, not that kind of dirty) tutorial today. One of the websites I work on had the requirement to make its prices look ‘nicer’ when converted to another currency. Currently (little currency pun for you there) the prices look fine in the default currency, which is good old pound sterling […]
After writing this post on how to override Magento’s HTTP helper to pull in the ‘real’ remote ip address when behind a reverse proxy system like Cloudflare. After reading this, Jack at firstvapor.com helpfully wrote in to point out the right way of doing this. If you look in /app/etc/local.xml.additional there’s some extra nodes in […]
this is a test post!