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.

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.

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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.

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