Magento Ecommerce Strategy, Design & Development

There are several ways via command line to check memory: $ free -m $ free -t -m $ vmstat $ top

To add xdebug to mac using MAMP PRO, you have to do change permissions to a folder for it to copy the file: $ sudo chmod 777 /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ Then you can do the command line install: $ pecl install xdebug You need to edit the php.ini file and you HAVE to uncomment:

[xdebug]
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so"

Now you need to add these below:

xdebug.remote_enable = On
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.profiler_enable = off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = off
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/Library/Application\ Support/appsolute/MAMP\ PRO/tmp/"
xdebug.collect_vars = On

Magento has a built in feature to write to a log file. In your code, you can use Mage::log(''). In the quotes, you can put in anything you want, in my example, i am adding some text and then the dynamic customer email address. Mage::log('Email sent to ' . $customer_email); This should end up in the /var/log/system.log Viewing that file, via command line, you can use: $ tail /var/log/system.log and that will show you the last 10 results. Make sure you remove this at some point or that log file will continue to grow and grow

With this command, you can clear, clean out a log file $ > logfilename.log So whats happening here is the > tells it to remove ( i think ) and the logfilename.log is the file you want to clear out.

This example is used to send out a reminder email to customers 21 days after a purchase, if they have not reviewed their products. This also is using email templates, which makes it a bit more complicated, otherwise you can just use the good ole php mail function instead. I am using a site called Bloom so all my notes will reflect that file structure.

This is just a list of commands I know I wont remember, so I am putting them here for reference

grep "status=sent" /var/log/maillog | grep "Aug 5" | awk '{print }' | awk -F "=" '{print }' | awk -F "<" '{print }' | awk -F ">" '{print }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 

grep "status=sent" /var/log/maillog | grep "Aug 5" | grep "to=<*>" grep "status=sent" /var/log/maillog | grep "Aug 5" | wc -l 

grep "ralbin@abcompany.com" /var/log/maillog | wc -l less /var/log/maillog grep "abc@hotmail.com" /var/log/maillog

You can easily get controller name, action name, router name and module name in template file or in any class file. IN TEMPLATE FILES $this->getRequest()can be used in template (phtml) files. Here is the code:

function extract_emails_from($string){
  preg_match_all("/[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i", $string, $matches);
  return $matches[0];
}

function sort_object_by_key( $obj, $order='' )
{
    $tmp = array();
    // deconstruct the object into an array
    foreach( $obj as $key => $val )
    {
        $tmp[$key] = '';
    }
   // sort the array
    if($order == 'DESC')
    {
        krsort( $tmp );
    }
    else
    {
        ksort( $tmp );
    }