Development

I recently had to debug issues while integrating Magento 2 and SAP Ariba with Punchout for login, cart transfer and order processing.  We’ve integrated Magento and other procurement systems via Punchout over 10 times, so I’m  used to debugging and solving the odd issue, but there was some really surprising issues that took a while […]

Step one:  Before we do anything – go ahead and backup your store, we’ll need to backup the codebase and the database, this should be a smooth upgrade but you never know (it is Magento afterall…) You’ll be thankful that you can revert back to a working version of your magento store easily if something […]

Error during installation – The requested package laravel/nova could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name. This error caught me out because it suggests the Nova package couldn’t be found. This isn’t actually the case and it turns out it’s my composer’s Minimum Stability setting, updating the […]

The Laravel team has recently announced the launch of their new product, Nova, an admin panel for you to use on your new and existing Laravel projects. What is it? Nova is an admin panel for managing your Laravel application. It’s built by the Laravel team themselves, and is, as they say, inspired by all […]

Learn what Traits are and how to effectively use them in Laravel & PHP. Traits are a handy way of reusing code in PHP, another way to help keep your code DRY (or “don’t repeat yourself”).

I recently found an issue on a Magento 1 site where no matter what I tried, product SKU, product attribute in any combinations the product would always get the discount rule applied and the customer group would receive a discount on a product the merchant did not want discounted. Simple products worked fine but there […]

We recently had to create a custom product attribute to allow a client to set a “Best Seller” flag on certain products. I found a lot of outdated examples of how to access this attribute on the front end, so for others out there; here is how I did this. Firstly, create the attribute in […]

This Magento Mobile Inventory Management app we’ve developed can be repurposed for any site running Magento 2. It allows admin users to login using their Magento admin account credentials and catalog the barcodes of products if not previously known and adjust stock quantities of their e-commerce site’s stock. Scanning barcodes The main aspect of this […]