ZenMagick

Today I had a quick (second) stab at trying to install pdo_dblib on CentOS6 with Php 5.4. Looking back it was pretty straight forward, but then most things are…. What I did was: yum install freetds-devel pecl download pdo_dblib tar xvfz PDO_DBLIB-1.0.tgz cd PDO_DBLIB-1.0 ./configuire So far so good, but now configure would complain about [...]

Sometimes it is useful (and required) to run PHPUnit tests in a browser. A great (although stupid example, IMHO) is XCache. It doesn’t work on the command line, so the only way to test anything is in a browser, via a webserver. A simple way of executing is this simple PHP script:

Looks like finally with WordPress 3.4 it will be possible to use the API by loading the WP code from within a class/function. It is amazing that is has taken so long to get this done, but as I remember there used to be a lot more globals that depended on file being included from [...]

It’s been a long long time sine I last wrote about what is happening with ZenMagick. For the most part the reason for this is that I haven’t been working on ZenMagick for the last – uhm 3 month or so. Having said that, this doesn’t mean the project is stalled or abandoned. Quite the [...]

And it happened again. Due to some issues with renewing the domain (the ISP changed owner in between), zenmagick.org is currently down. And thanks to the apparently stupid go daddy it always is a mission to get it back. Looks like there have been problems renewing the domain for the ISP itself – sigh. I’ll [...]

I am very close to having the new pricing code pass all shopping cart tests. In fact, one benefit of this change is that for the first time it is possible to run a complete cart test over all products in one go. The stats for that look something like this: Client IP: 127.0.0.1;   PHP: 5.3.10;   ZenMagick: [...]

This week I have taken another stab at improving the ZenMagick pricing code. The main reason right now is to further reduce the number of SQL queries per request. As part of the process to encapsulate zen-cart logic as much as possible there is a class ZenCartCheckoutOrder that is compatible with zen-cart. However, it is [...]

After having published a first snapshot of the upcoming ZenMagick 0.9.14 it seems time to write about what is new and shiny in the next release. Perhaps the biggest change is that zen-cart is now loaded on demand and ZenMagick is the main request handler. What does that mean? It means that for example, ZenMagick [...]

I’ve finally written some reasonably easy addition to the ZenMagick PHP templating engine that allows to set the crumbtrail (and other bits, if required) in the actual view. This is something I’ve been struggling for a long time. The crumbtrail code has been a source of bending backwards and ugly code for a very long [...]

There are some big changes coming in ZenMagick. One of the big concerns was (and still is) the integration (or lack thereof) with zencart. To pave the way for some real improvements for this there has been a huge amount of work to make things simpler, cleaner and faster. Right now ZenMagick is integrated via [...]