Magento Ecommerce Strategy, Design & Development

Having some fun learning the Laravel framework and was trying to figure out how to do migrations and seeds for workbench packages. In general these are the commands, but read the rest for the particulars.

php artisan migrate --bench="Upshot/Poll"

php artisan migrate:rollback

php artisan db:seed --class="UpshotPollDatabaseSeeder"

If you want to find the files that are larger than 500MB in your current directory

find . -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Alright, so your a modern PHP developer and know that most framework updates are adding composer support out of the box, or are already using it.  Sadly every time you develop in Magento you miss it and Magento’s 2.0 release with composer support is still a ways off. Well you’re in luck! Everyone give Mr. Damian Luszczymak a big hug for making an extension that adds composer support to Magento 1.0.  It adds the composer autoloader prior to Magento’s, so if there are ever any conflicts Magento’s should overwrite them.  Also, he did a great job of implementing it via an observer, so we shouldn’t have upgrade issues.

Alright, lets get down to it.  

1) Download the extension at https://github.com/magento-hackathon/Magento-PSR-0-Autoloader and install the files.

2) Add  <composer_vendor_path><![CDATA[{{root_dir}}/vendor]]></composer_vendor_path> to your main local.xml under global

3) Create a vendor folder in the Magento root folder

4) Install composer if you haven’t: https://getcomposer.org/

5) If you have composer installed as a global you can now go to the root Magento folder via command line and run "composer init" with defaults and "composer update".

That was very simple, and it works great!

Step 1: Find your Mac public key change into your ssh directory in terminal

cd ~/.ssh/

View your public key

cat id_rsa.pub 

Log into your CentOS via ssh and change into your ssh directory

cd ~/.ssh/

Create a id_rsa.pub

vim id_rsa.pub

You can truncate the entire known_hosts file, or just remove the same IP/URL that your trying to connect to, for us, to keep it simple we are just going to truncate the entire file

I was asked to take a Magento codebase, split it off into 2 different exact copies.

They also wanted each to have updated local.xml with updated database credentials.

Furthermore, they wanted the databases replicated into 2 new ones, that the local.xml would be able to connect to.

#!/bin/bash

ok=0;

while ((ok==0))
    do
    echo "Choose your installation Type:"
    echo -e "\t(p) Probes"
    echo -e "\t(e) Education"
    echo -e "\t(b) Both"
    echo -e "\t(x) Exit"
    echo -n "Please enter your choice:"
    read choice
    case $choice in
        "p"|"P")