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I had a problem to compress files in my webserver. Because my images and backup folders were too large. Then I thought to exclude those directories and create a tar file. I have used --exclude option which matches patterns. First I have used following command to exclude images and backup folder. tar -cvf "new_tar_cha_2013-11-26.tar.gz" .  --exclude "path/to/backup/backup/*" --exclude "images/*" > error_tar_cha.log It excluded backup folder correctly. But It excluded all the images folders inside my directory. Because it matches the pattern . My solution was, I renamed to root images folder to different name - "images-cha1" and excluded it. It fixed my problem. tar -cvf "new_tar_cha_2013-11-26.tar.gz" .  --exclude "path/to/backup/backup/*" --exclude "images-cha1/*" > error_tar_cha.log I think this will be helpful for others also. Thanks

I had a problem when requesting webservice. My solution as follows.         $url = " https://path_to_service.asp " ; //setting the curl parameters.   $headers = array ( "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"" ,     "Accept: text/xml" , "Cache-Control: no-cache" ,   "Pragma: no-cache" ,   "SOAPAction: \"run\""   );   try { $ch = curl_init ();   curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_URL , $url ); curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_POST , 1 );     // send xml request to a server   curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST , 0 );   curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , 0 ); curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , $xmlRequest );   curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 ); c

I faced this issue when migrating my local joomla 2.5 installation to test server. It works fine when logging with correct username and passwords. Then I have checked in error_log and found issue. PHP Warning:  fopen(path_to_log/logs/error.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in  new_server_path/libraries/joomla/log/loggers/formattedtext.php on line 248 Then I have checked in back end and changed path to log folder as follows.

I got this fatal error when I'm going to print shipment. There are two solutions given by community. First Solution: Comment out __construct and __destruct methods in lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php as follows //    abstract public function __construct();     /**      * Object destructor. Closes the data source.      *      * May also perform cleanup tasks such as deleting temporary files.      */ //    abstract public function __destruct(); Second Solution: simply change the constructor function of lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php         abstract public function __construct(); TO     abstract public function __construct($filePath);

I use following code to update magento products without effecting tier prices. Because my earlier code cleared all tier prices after run code. Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);     $id = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getIdBySku($prod_sku);     $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id);     if ($product) {       $product->setBarcode($bar_code);       if(! $product->save()){                 $productId = $product->getId();                 echo "product_Id :: ".$productId." - Product sku :: ".$product->getSku()."<br />";             }else{                 echo "not saved";             }      }

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I had to transfer k-ecommerce customer data to magento. I created csv file according to magento customer data upload csv that I got from data profile -> export customer profile. But there was a problem to encrypt password to match with magento. I googled and found this. I will share with others for their reference. Thanks Edward // Change the paths according to your environment require_once 'app/Mage.php'; umask(0); $app = Mage::app('default'); // Instantiate the core encryption model $obj = Mage::getModel('core/encryption'); // Instantiate the core helper $helper = Mage::helper('core'); //Set the encryptions helper $obj->setHelper($helper); // Get the password's hash $enc_pwd = $obj->getHash($pwd, 2); // To validate password, use this. It will return 1 if it is correct echo $obj->validateHash($pwd, $enc_pwd);

I have created CSV file and run profile. Some products failed due to image not found issue. I wanted to find out which products have failed in the process. I googled but not found a solution. Finally I used firebug and found failed row number as follows

Add following after $_item = $this->getItem() ; in checkout/cart/item/default.phtml $_tierPricing = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/product_view', 'product.tierprices', array( 'product_id' => $_item->getProductId())); $_tierPricing->setTemplate('catalog/product/view/tierprices.phtml'); To print price info: <?php echo $_tierPricing->getTierPriceHtml();?> OR If you want retrieve tier prices for any other purposes, just for show discounts etc. Use followings. $custom = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_item->getProductId());  var_dump($custom->getTierPrice());