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Introducing MageSmith — A Free Hosted Magento 2 Developer Toolkit

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After years of running MagePsycho, the same loop kept repeating in my workflow: every new Magento 2 project meant re-opening the same dozen browser tabs, re-running the same scaffolding scripts, and re-typing the same bin/magento commands. Different clients, different stores, different problems — but the supporting cast of tools never changed, and most of them lived in scattered gists, half-finished local CLIs, or “I’ll automate this someday” backlog tickets. So I built MageSmith — a …

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Fixing target=”_blank” for W3C compliance using Javascript / jQuery

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HTML 4.0 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict recommendations of the W3C no longer include the target attribute of the <a> tag. The Transitional versions of the specifications still include it, but by definition, these specs are on the way out. So this means you can’t use target=”_blank” for your <a> tags if you want to …

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How to fix the issue: Product images missing in backend but not in the frontend

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Introduction Recently I have to fix a strange issue for one of my clients. The issue was that product images were missing from ‘Images’ tab of product edit form (as depicted below), though they were displaying fine in the frontend. After going through the table relationship for catalog product images (as shown below), it was …

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500 Internal Server Error: Mismatch between target GID (XXX) and GID (XXX) of file

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Today (at the time of writing) I tried to install Magento 1.7.0.0 via SSH as ‘root’ user using following bash script: #!/bin/bash wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.0/magento-1.7.0.0.tar.gz wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-1.7.0.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/media/* magento/media/ mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0.sql magento/data.sql mv magento/* magento/.htaccess . chmod -R o+w media mysql -u dbUserName -pdbPass dbName < data.sql chmod o+w …

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Getting super attributes info using raw SQL in Magento

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Introduction While creating a configurable product, you need to create an attribute(s) which will be used as a select option(s) for the customer(For Example Color, Size, etc.). These kinda attributes are called super attributes or configurable attributes. In this article, we will be discussing how to get different info about super attributes using raw SQL. …

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