Magento encrypts the sensitive information that it stores in the database. That’s great for security, but it means if you need information that only exists as encrypted in the database,… Read more »
I recently came across a situation where I needed to be able to turn off payment method on checkout based on customer information on a Magneto 2 site. The best… Read more »
It’s not pretty, but sometimes you need to check an address input to see if it’s a PO box. Rules will be different around PO boxes. For that, I use… Read more »
This is a pretty simple task, but I always have to look up the documentation on what the switches are to make a user, so below is the command I… Read more »
Like all software, Magento 1 likes to log a lot of actions. That is usually useful information and not a problem, but it can make for a larger database that… Read more »
There are many times during development that I need to get part of, or all or, an order address in Magento 2 development. For mapping rules in integration or passing… Read more »
I have heard about letsencrypt.org for a while now, but never took the time to get it setup. I finally found the time and can say that it was quite… Read more »
Years ago I wrote about Rackspace Cloud offering me a good server platform at a reasonable cost. While I still have a few servers living there, I am pleased to… Read more »
a2ensite is a nice command that creates the symlink needed for an apache config file from sites-available to sites-enabled. Nginx doesn’t have such a command, but it is quite simple… Read more »
I had a server that was running Red Hat that threw an error of: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Cache_Exception’ with message ‘cache_dir ” is not writable The directory it… Read more »