Category Archives: E-Commerce

Conflicting Model Overrides in Magento Extension Architecture

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Josh Ribakoff

I have been using Magento for about one year. I have written one successful commercial extension ( for automotive ecommerce ) Lately, one of my clients informed me of incompatibilities between the SQLiReverse cross selling module extension and my extension. … Continue reading →

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In accounting, why do ‘debit’ & ‘credit’ change meaning in different contexts

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Josh Ribakoff

I spent some time wrapping my head around this the other day. Basically in accounting the meanings of credit & debit change. For an asset account, for example, a credit DE-creases it’s value while a debit IN-creases it’s value. However … Continue reading →

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Major Magento bug with toString arguments php 5.3

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Josh Ribakoff

Magento will not run on PHP 5.3. Theres a magic method __toString() classes can implement in PHP, its not supposed to have arguments. Magento uses arguments. In PHP 5.3 they add error handling and it triggers a fatal error. Mageno requires a minimum of PHP 5.2 to run. That means if you freeze your code base you’re not going to be able to upgrade, past 5.2 Continue reading →

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