Lonnie Knows Everything

One of my clients had recently came to me looking for a clean shopping cart that could be ran mostly via CSV… they had a “product matrix” in excel that had categories, sub categories, item name, skew and price…

I evaluated VirtueMart which I decided was just too bulky and buggy to work with .. then I checked out dozens of others, but none were suited to our needs..  I’ve run into this issue before and decided to roll my own cart using existing tools.. I opted to use K2 (since Joomla can’t do subcategories), Simplecaddy (k2 is not a cart) and some custom tweaks..

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Hey gang!

Today I’ve released the latest version of the Oneduality Dynamic Header Images Joomla module (say that 5 times fast) ..  there are a number of enhancements that increase the usefulness and possibilities of the module, primarily, a modification that will allow you the ability to load more than one instance of the module on a page, as well as change the type of images you’re using .. for full details and to download it, click here!

Recently I was working on an e-com project where I was given a database that contained the customer’s product catalog, but the catalog contained tons and tons of html tables that contained no id’s or classes whatsoever .. they were just vanilla tables that made use of the “TH” tag for the header row, so at least i could style that without hassle.

I could easily do some styling to all the tables, but what I really wanted to do was alternate the row’s colors so that everything didn’t run together, but without a class for each row (odd/even for example) .. I couldn’t do it in CSS.

That is where Javascript comes in! read on for more..

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The Dynamic Header Images module has beem moved to it’s own page which can be found right here

The module has also been converted to donationware, and there are two upcoming releases!

Roadmap

1. Support fort Virtuemart (custom header images per department) (1.5.2)
2. A re-write of the logic, this will allow you to have a default image by section and category rather than having to have an image for every article. (1.6)

Have you ever needed to make Joomla use https?

If you use Joomla 1.0.x you could just simply changed $mosConfig_livesite to your https URL, but this won’t solve the issue of someone coming in on a non https link from a search engine or bookmark, yes it will change to https if they click a link, but that landing page will be insecure, what can we do about this? read on!

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