Magento

Magento Connect Error – Cannot chdir after login

Quick Microblog today on a common problem – Magento Connect issues. This specific problem involves the error: We encountered this issue because we had renamed our Magento folder […]

Written by Creare

Published 13 Mar '13

Setting Up a CRON Job for Magento

Cron jobs are automated events that are triggered by the server. A lot of people think that the Magento cron runs automatically – but this is not the […]

Written by Creare

Published 5 Jan '13

Using a Controller Observer to Dispatch your Own Event

Sometimes you may find that the big bad Magento Observer Cheatsheet does not cut it. When you want to do a particular thing and there’s no observer for […]

Written by Creare

Published 4 Dec '12

Magento Custom Page Templates

In Magento it is possible to create more page templates than the traditional 1-column, 2-columns-left (etc) options that we’re given by default. These page templates are defined in […]

Written by Creare

Published 7 Jun '12

Magento Connect Error – Connection String is Empty

If you have ever received the error “Connection String is Empty” while attempting to install extensions via Magento Connect then the easy was around it is to fill […]

Written by Creare

Published 25 Apr '12