Paul Tocknell
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Feb 11th
This post is mostly for me, just a FYI.
Every single time that I upgrade my Yireo Magebridge for Joomla and Magento I get this error:
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And every single time, I scratch my head wondering how I fixed this error the last time I upgraded Magebridge. So here are the instructions for me so I don’t waste time looking for this solution again:
The problem is with the magebridge.php file located in the magento subfolder. You need to change the permissions back to 644.
Magento Add to Cart and Image Zoom not working
Dec 30th
I ran across another problem tonight with my Magneto installation. For no good apparent reason my Add to Cart and Image Zoom suddenly stopped working. I used the Firefox Error Console and this was my full error message:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.yoursite.com/magento/js/index.php?c=auto&f=,prototype/prototype.js,prototype/validation.js,scriptaculous/builder.js,scriptaculous/effects.js,scriptaculous/dragdrop.js,scriptaculous/controls.js,scriptaculous/slider.js,varien/js.js,varien/form.js,varien/menu.js,mage/translate.js,mage/cookies.js,varien/product.js,calendar/calendar.js,calendar/calendar-setup.js :: anonymous :: line 1528" data: no]
After a lot of searching….well, I found nothing. All the answers on the Magneto forum were no use to me at all. After about 30 minutes of searching though, I did find an answer that works (at least for now). I had to re-install the Lib_Js_Prototype using the Magnento Connect Manager.
Here is how you do that from the Magneto admin backend:
1) System – Magento Connect – Magento Connect Manager
2) You will be prompted for your admin user name and password
3) Select Lib_Js_Prototype and then choose from the drop down action menu Re-Install.
4) Click on Commit Changes
If everything goes ok, you should see something like this:
This seemed to solve the problem for me….at least for now. Hopefully this works for you or at least helps you out somehow.
Captain Andrew Sampson House
Nov 9th
We just received our Christmas 2009 Pottery Barn catalog. My daughter saw all the pretty Christmas photos and thought it would make great material for a collage. One of the many pictures she cut out was of a very nicely holiday decorated home that my daughter was convinced was located in our neighborhood. The house is actually featured on the Pottery Barn front cover. I looked closely at the picture of the house and saw that above the front door was a placard that read “Captain Andrew Sampson House 1850″. Ok, so who was Captain Andrew Sampson and where is this house located?
Like any good detective, my first step was Google and from there I learned that yes the house was built in 1850 and it is located at 1157 Division St, Napa, California. Google maps also lists a business at that address, a company called “Benefits Plus”. In fact, Google Maps street view has a great shot of the home:
Ok, so now that I know where the house was located, I needed to find out just who was Captain Andrew Sampson?
I emailed the Napa Public Works Department and they were nice enough to send me the “Historic Resources Inventory” which notes among other things, the description and significance of this particular property:
The Andrew Sampson House is an excellent example of the 19th century practice in Napa of creating a two story house by raising the original one story cottage and building a new first floor. The original cottage, now the second floor, is believed to have been built in 1850, soon after Stephen Broadhurst bought the land near the Napa River from Joseph P. Thompson, one of Napa’s first settlers. Andrew Sampson, originally from Sweden, purchased the property in 1871. He had an active role in the Napa River trade as he ran a tow boat line, operated a schooner between Napa and San Francisco and had a drayage business in Napa Valley. The house raising took place c.1900. The house stands on a fieldstone foundation and is frame with shiplap siding. Note the variation in window moldings on the first and second floors. More recent additions are a wing to the rear and extension in the gable end and. the front porch and steps. The house remained in the family until 1974. Two Sequoias in the front yard were planted by Andrew Sampson’s wife, Olinda, in the 1870s.
Wow. Cool. So the first story was actually an addition to the house. That’s a pretty neat fact.
The fact sheet that they sent also included an old photo taken of the house. It’s pretty grainy, but you can tell even from this photo that a lot of work has been done to the house:
So anyhow that’s all I’ve been able to find out about the Captain Andrew Sampson House 1850. If you have any more information, be sure to share it.
Add an additional admin user in Magento
Oct 31st
This morning I probably spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to add an additional admin user to Magento. And although it turned out to be really easy, it took some digging to find the answer on the net. I finally found the answer on the forum board:
- In your magento admin backend, go to Admin> System> Permissions> Users.
- Click “Add new user”
- Enter the user’s information.
- Be sure to click on the “user roles” tab on the left menu to assign the account to a role. (You can create more limited-capability roles using ADMIN> System> Permissions> Roles so that users can’t reset anything too deadly if you want.)
- Save user.
Hopefully this post helps to save someone else wasting 15 minutes looking for the answer on the magento forums.