The last weekend I spent in Herdecke, Germany on invitation of my mate Daniel Schlichtholz, the main coder of the translation center oTranCe. oTranCe was originally invented for localizing and managing the language keys of Daniel's other pet project, MySQLDumper, and is used as a localisation center for OXID eShop as well. So me and Daniel spent a plenty of time with updating the software oTranCe [Read more...]
This is more or less a notice to myself. I switched to LinuxMint recently and tried to setup a LAMP system including all modules in order to run OXID eShop on it (I basically need it for my daily work). This became fairly different to the Ubuntu installations I ran before, and I found some dodgy tricks that I want to document here. First off, this is the exact Linux version I run, found with $ [Read more...]
Holger, one of Leipzig's most empathetic saxophone and keyboarder players, and a good mate of mine is suffering from cancer quite recently. In a spectacular campaign on Facebook, his friends are about to organize a concert on December 8th at the club Anker Leipzig The revenue from the entry fees (8 EUR) will help to pay for the raising costs for his therapy. In the mean time, the concert twists [Read more...]
Google and other search engines decide from the location of your server IP address how your site will rank in their search results. This might become a problem, especially for e-commerce sites, if you want to target another market, as these kind of sites usually change their content incessantly, like the stock display etc. Let’s start over with an example to state the case more clearly. [Read more...]
For my next tutorial about writing modules for OXID eShop I chose a very simple example. The aim is to round up the display of the price on the product details page to the next five cent (or any other currency of your choice). This is because there are countries where it doesn't make sense to display prices like 7.99 EUR because the value doesn't even impact on your money bag and the tax [Read more...]
Upfront: although I probably have a good technical understanding I am not a software developer. So it’s a pleasure to thank my mates @tabsl, @vanilla_thunder, @jkrug @l3k, @stasiukaitis-saulius and especially @DSB for the patient, almost friendly help while writing this OXID eShop module sample, and letting me understand what each line of code does. My thanks also goes to my mate @stew who usually [Read more...]
Let me say this upfront: I am neither a specialist in linguistics nor in international SEO (search engine optimization). But there’s one thing that has been keeping my brain busy for some time: what is the right method of rewriting a URL if you want to stand amongst a foreign market, on maybe alternative search engines, that uses different characters than simple Latin? You might know that I am [Read more...]
Dear friends, actually I wanted to manually send signed Christmas cards to the most distinguished community members and friends. But they took a very long way from our headquarters in Freiburg to the office in Halle and only arrived yesterday. Not enough time left to give them the time to arrive punctually, especially thinking of foreign addressees. So here they are: Merry [Read more...]
Today, we bought a new all-in-one device for home use, a HP Deskjet 3050A J611 series, that was told to be capable for WiFi connections. The delivered software on a CD is available for Windows and Mac OS machines only. Now I run Ubuntu which shall not be a problem as all HP devices are supported by default on this operating system. And right: I got it working very simply. Connect the USB cable [Read more...]
Sometimes, especially for documentation purposes, it might be necessary to show a unified diff as a HTML page. As we will ditch Basic theme in OXID eShop version 4.7/5.0, we had to document how to convert a customized theme based on Basic if you want to update. Included, we wanted to deliver a visual diff of the categorylist.tpl file to show how the category tree was loaded before and how it [Read more...]