I’ve been watching the Magento e-commerce project for about the last month and a half - since Ben sent me a link to it. It’s an open-source e-commerce package, that primarily aims to pickup and improve where OSCommerce, Joomla + VirtueMart, and ZenCart have left off - streamlining a CMS (Content Management Sytem) and E-commerce shopping cart. This also means built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Google Checkout integration, varied customer groups, and much more…. straight out of the box. The problem appears to be that there are a lot of people on the Magento forums who are running into problems, and don’t have a clue on how to get it running under their Dreamhost hosting account. Unfortunately it also looks like the previous article(s) for Magento+Dreamhost installs have disappeared, or are outdated. And that’s where this article comes in… Continue reading ‘Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost’
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What a title, eh? Yeah, it might sound a bit like buzzword after buzzword, but functional testing in PHP is a serious topic - sometimes it means the difference between spending fifteen minutes doing a bug check and several hours depending on the size of your site. Now, it’s important to mention that functional tests are different from unit tests - we’re not going to be testing individual functions or methods, but rather we’re going to be making sure that the site works the way our users expect it to from their point of view. This means that we can check our site for error messages and verify that they pop up when they should, and stay hidden when they shouldn’t.
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