Some developers went to Spain to combine work and holiday recently and got back with an outstanding cool software package, ready to use for OXID eShop but in general usable for any PHP project: the open source module installer “ioly”. Learn more about it in this blog post.
Why OXID decided for using Symfony2
OXID decided to go for Symfony instead of using some other frameworks. Read why in this blog post.
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Parental leave in July and August
I’ll be on parental leave from 26th June until 25th August. You can scarcely reach me via email, telephone or any other channel. Will be back to business by the end of August and will answer any requests.
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Distributed Installations with Different URLs for Languages
This blog post points out some specific technical and SEO related issues that you might face when internationalizing and localizing online business using OXID eShop as your preferred system for distributed online shop installations.
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How to Write a Module for OXID eShop: Round the Price on Product Details Page to a Fiver
Learn how to write a very simple module for OXID eShop: round up the price on the product details page to five cent. Simply copy an existing method and overwrite it with your additions.
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How to Write a Module for OXID eShop: Display “You will save x %” on the Product Details Page
In this blog post I’ll show you step-by-step how to easily generate a module for displaying content saving on the product detail page of your OXID eShop installation, if you entered a recommended retail price as well as your price. You will also learn how to embed your own CSS and how to make your module multilingual.
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Romanization and Transliteration of Special Characters in the URL – the Right Way to go for International SEO?
Internationalization (i18n) of URIs is definitely a topic of note. Have you heard about transliterations or romanization for URLs/URIs yet? How do different writings scale in different search engines?
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Display a Diff as a Webpage using diff2html
If you want to present an unified diff as a HTML webpage, the diff2html bash script shall be a good solution for you. In this blog post I described for what we needed it and how it is used on a Linux machine.
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Recap of the OXID Developer Meet-Up on January 13 2012 in Hamburg
On Friday January 13th our first Developer Meet-Up in this year took place in Hamburg. Read what we were talking about and about the results of this successful evening.
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A Fantastic Pre-Christmas Week in Freiburg
Last week, all OXID stuff came together in Freiburg, Breisgau to work together in workshops and meetings. At the end of the week, our Christmas party took place.
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