The following day I attempted to login to the Magento admin area only to be presented with a 404 error!  Geez, what a pain.

After doing a bit of forum bashing I found the solution I was after:-

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/37202/P30/#t121336

For those with the same problem as mine… (can’t login after upgrade, and don’t have ssh capabilities,) I have found a workaround. It worked for me, but I can’t guarantee it will work for you, so proceed at your own risk. I am not the most tech-saavy guy, I just figured it out by looking at the error.

1.)The first thing to do is download the entire magento 1.3 package. Unzip it, and go into Magento->app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model->Url.php Grab the Url.php file.

2.)Go to your server, and into your directory where you have magento installed. go to app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model and replace the Url.php file.

3. Clear the cache in your browser and try logging in again.

4. At this point, if you were able to get in, I suggest that you go to magento connect and properly upgrade. Worked for me. I hope it works for you.

- T. Foteh
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After following these steps I was able to login without a problem. -phew-

Then, to top it off the dropdown menus were not working in the admin area!  Checking Firebug I found this was due to the javascripts 404-ing.  Another dose of forum searching it was apparent that this was a common problem (I had experienced it before myself) the /js folder and contents had the wrong permissions following the upgrade.

I opened FireFTP logged into the site and changed the permissions on the /js folder and all it’s contents to 755.  This has sorted that problem, so I’m happy now.

All in all it looks like these problems I encountered after the upgrade are now sorted, let’s hope that’s the last of them and the next upgrade will go smoother.

A simple to use and flexible image manipulation symfony plugin. The plugin allows you to perform “transforms” on an image. A transform maybe simple like a resizing or mirroring or more complex like overlays and pixelizing. The transforms can be chained together or applied individually. New transforms can be simple created by extending the sfImageTranform abstract class.

Download

http://plugins.symfony-project.org/sfImageTransformPlugin

Plugin page

http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfImageTransformPlugin

Examples

Starting with the original image:-

Here is an example of a transform that:-

• scales ‘logo.png’ by 50%

public function executeDemo1()
{
 $img = new sfImage(sfConfig::get('sf_upload_dir') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'logo.png', 'image/png');
 $response = $this->getResponse();
 $response->setContentType($img->getMIMEType());

 $img->scale(0.5);

 $response->setContent($img);

 return sfView::NONE;
}

Result:-

Here is an example of a transform that:-

• flood fill’s ‘logo.png’ at ‘x100,y170′ with #000000
• scales by 50%
• rotate by 120%
• draw a rectancle of 5 pixels around edge and colour it #00FF00
• write the text “bathcamp 2008″ at ‘x10,y10′ 10px Verdana coloured #FF9900

public function executeDemo5()
{
 $img = new sfImage(sfConfig::get('sf_upload_dir') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'logo.png', 'image/png');
 $response = $this->getResponse();
 $response->setContentType($img->getMIMEType());

 $img->fill(100,170)->scale(0.5)->rotate(120)->rectangle(1, 1, $img->getWidth() - 1, $img->getHeight() - 5, 5, '#00FF00')->text('bathcamp 2008', 10, 10, 10, 'Verdana', '#FF9900');

 $response->setContent($img);

 return sfView::NONE;
}

Result

Stunami has provided a collection of transforms for the GD and ImageMagick libraries.

Brief

To relocate the satellite and terrestrial television distribution system from the 4th floor Capital House onto the 3rd floor server room.

To employ a system to distribute the 12 television channels through the structured cabling. With individual channel selection using infrared remote control.

Solution

The Scion Technologies PRO 1000 16-channel video and audio distribution switch was chosen.

SKY digiboxes were retained to produce the seven satellite channels.

Stavekirk’s XChannel Pro television tuners were used to produce the terrestrial television channels.

Implementation

The existing television distribution equipment was removed and relocated in a 27U rack with the inclusion of suitable cable and power management.

Rack Diagram

Schematic Diagram

Cross Patch Reference Table

Back of rack

Television and SKY digiboxes

SKY digiboxes, XChannel Pro’s and Scion Technologies PRO 1000

XChannel Pro TV Tuners and Aerial Distribution

Scion Technologies PRO 1000 and Phillips PAS7508E Satellite Multiplexer

Front of rack

Television and SKY digiboxes

SKY digiboxes

SKY digibox, Stavekirk’s XChannel Pro IR Front Panel, Scion Technologies PRO 1000 and cable management

So, to get round this pain in the arse problem follow these simple steps:-

1. Ensure that your iPhone is connected
2. Open ‘My Computer’
3. Right Click on the ‘Apple iPhone’ icon
4. Select Properties
5. Pick the Events tab
6. Choose ‘Take no action’
7. Click ‘OK’

Now when you dock your iPhone the popup will not annoy you.

My requirements are simple:-

• Sync Google Calendar with my iPhone Calendar

In practice this seemed to allude me, I did find a third party application through my Jailbroken app list but this required me to run the app on my iPhone and request the synchronisation by clicking a button. I can’t for the life of me remember what the app was called but it did 90% of what I was after.

Bring on http://www.nuevasync.com/ ! This web based service managed to get me, my iPhone and my Google Calendar all synched up with a minimum of effort.

The only reservation that I have at this time is that it appears that I can only sync with my iGoogle account and not my Google Apps for andij.com account, for now with this product being in it’s infancy I am more than happy to accept this minor inconvenience.

Check out this post in the Apple Discussions http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7854548 David Boreham (owner of Nuevasync).

Now to install Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/ Including the Sample Data pack.

Note: Ensure to install the Sample Data pack before performing the installation of Magento itself.

Download both the ‘Sample Data’ pack and ‘Magento’, save these somewhere, decide where you want your new ecommerce shop to be installed, I’m going to install it here: http://www.project.dev/magento/

Unpack magento-1.0.19870.zip into D:\websites\project\htdocs seeing as the zip file contains the \magento\ folder, the path you’ll end up with is D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento

Unpack magento-sample-data-1.0.19870.zip into D:\websites\project\htdocs this will create a folder called D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento-sample-data-1.0.19870

Now is a good time to create your MySQL database, to do this open http://localhost/ where you should see the WampServer homepage, click ‘phpmyadmin’. Simply create a database by putting your database name ‘magento_sample’ (I decided to call it this so that I can create another called ‘magento_live’ for the real shop data) into the ‘Create new database’ field, leave all the defaults and click ‘Create’, you’ll notice the database name appear in the left column.

Installing Sample Data Archive for Magento 1.0.19870

Click ‘magento_sample’ in the left column then click the ‘Import’ tab at the top.

Browse for the sample data file, located D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento-sample-data-1.0.19870\magento_sample_data_for_1.0.19870.sql. Leave the defaults and click ‘Go’ at the bottom right. You’ll now be importing the sample data and it’ll take a little while. Once complete there’ll be a long list of database tables in the left column.

Configure WampServer Apache modules and PHP extensions

Before installing Magento ensure you complete the following:-

Click on the WampServer icon in the system tray

‘Apache’ -> ‘Apache Modules’ tick ‘rewrite_module’
‘PHP’ -> ‘PHP Extensions’ tick ‘php_curl’
‘PHP’ -> ‘PHP Extensions’ tick ‘php_mcrypt’

Now browse to http://www.project.dev/magento/ you should now see the first page of the Magento installation procedure.

Follow the installation procedure, changing the location, time zone, currency to your requirements. When you’re presented with the database configuration page, simply enter ‘magento_sample’ into the database field and proceed. (this is assuming that your MySQL user is ‘root’ and your password is blank).

Let me know how it goes.

The Installation process of WampServer2 was painless. http://www.wampserver.com/en/

The harder part was getting it configured the way I wanted to use it. Now I’ve sussed it, it’s a beauty.

I Installed WampServer2 in C:\wamp

My websites are located in D:\websites

The webroot of my ‘project’ is:-
D:\websites\project\htdocs

I would like to use this URL for ‘project’:-

http://www.project.dev/

Once you’ve installed WampServer2 check http://www.wampserver.com/en/presentation.php for an overview of how to use it.

So, now you’re all up and running and you can see the wampserver page at http://localhost/

Step Two

Seeing your website ‘project’ at http://www.project.dev/

Find your hosts file:-
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
open hosts in your text editor
At the end of the file add the following:-

127.0.0.1       www.project.dev project.dev

Find your httpd-vhost.conf file:-
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\conf\extra\
open httpd-vhost.conf in your text editor
At the end of the file add the following:-

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@project.dev
DocumentRoot "D:\websites\project\htdocs"
ServerName project.dev
ServerAlias www.project.dev
ErrorLog "logs/project.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/project.dev-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

Save both these files and restart wamp:-
Click on the WampServer icon in the system tray
Click ‘Restart all Services’

Ensuring that WampServer has started successfully try visiting http://www.project.dev/

As long as you’ve created this path:-
D:\websites\project\htdocs
You should see at least:-
Index of /project

Now go ahead and build your website locally.