February 26, 2014

Vanity URL in social media for branding objectives

Vanity URL


A vanity URL is an unique web address associated with website address that is useful for marketing objectives.

One of main advantage of vanity URL is that customer can identify owner name in main website/domain address in postfix form.

So they can judge out properly by clicking on vanity url.

Therefore your vanity URLs should be easy to remember, use, and share.

February 19, 2014

Comparison between Magento and Prestashop.

Magento versus PrestaShop

How to know which is the best e-Commerce platform?

In market there are lots of e-commerce platform rather than these two such as Virtuemart, Lemonstand, Volusion, Merchandizer, Big Commerce, Shopify, Opencart, Cubecart, Storesprite but which fits in your needs and pocket that depends on respective requirements.

But most widely used in market are Magento and PrestaShop.

Most merchants are confusing about to select which platform. We have done comparison between Prestashop and Magento along with the details. It contains the features, customization, functionality, themes related etc.

Topic
PrestaShop
Magento
Release
Mid 2007
2008
Products /Edition
One software contains more than 300 features.
Editions like Magento go, enterprise edition, community edition.
Pricing
Basic version is free but additionally has paid modules.
Community edition is free but enterprise and go is paid.
Good enough to set up for an online store with rich features

Written Language(Coding Framework)
PHP and Smarty Template Engine
PHP and Zend  Framework and MVC architecture


Database engine
MySQL
MYSQL, use EAV to store data
Language Support
More than 50 Language, need API
API needed.
No of Downloads
Above 3 Million
Above 5 Million
SEO Compatibility
Useful for small biz
Better support compare to PS
Rich SEO implementation and features
Tech support
PrestaShop community and its forums
Magento having large tech support and community help
Design integration/Theme Integration
Ease compare to Magento
Complicated
Open source License
Yes under OSL ( Open Software License  ) 3.0
Under OSL 3.0
Payment Gateway
Paypal, Authorize .Net, Google Check out, Direct Pay,
Paypal, Authorize .Net, Google Check out, Direct Pay and additionally Authorize Emulator.
Currency
Supportive
Supports
Android/iPad/iPod – Responsive purpose
Ease of use and implementation
Little complex




  
The above blog will help you to judge out between two platforms mentioned. It’s totally based on
 needs of the user/customer. Above mention data may be vary is only for information.


Sources:
           Magento       - http://www.magentocommerce.com/
           Magento       - http://www.magento.com/
           Prestashop    - http://www.prestashop.com/en/
                               




February 18, 2014

Remove login from phpmyadmin in wamp server or disable admin login in mysql

Get rid of phpmyadmin login 

If you want to use phpmyadmin without cookie limit and want to get rid of login credentials.

Heres is the tip for those:

Go to the wamp installation directory

C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin** 

** version numbers that may be different.

Find the config.inc.php and take back up of it to save for the future use.

Open config.inc.php in any text editor (i.e. notepad, notepad++)

Go to the authentication section type.
/* Authentication type */
You will find the $cfg array(mostly 3 dimensional array.).

Do change as follows:
Change the auth type value to config.
                     // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

Now speciy the user and password for same like below:

Add the following lines/params in /*Server parameters section*/ which is generally next to authentication type:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  /*User name during installation*/
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ' ';           /*Password during installtion generally blank*/
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot'] = TRUE;   

February 13, 2014

How to add Java Script to smarty template file

{literal}

In smarty, how can you add Javascript to template file.
You just have to use built-in-function named literal.

{literal} tags allow a block of data to be taken literally from the template file. 
Simple logic is there, {literal}{/literal} tags is not interpreted, but whatever we have written within code it will display same.

Syntax:
{literal}

/* Some java script code */

{/literal}
e.g.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function callHello() { 
alert('hello world. !!');   
   }
</script>

Cheers :).

February 12, 2014

How to access WAMP server in Local Area Network or LAN

Wamp server access.

Access WAMP server in LAN

Wamp allow access from LAN / How to access WAMP server in Local Area Network/
Access wamp server from different computer in LAN

It is the matter with the apache configuartion.
Initially, WAMP only allows access to the website from the local host/that System name. 

You need to modify http configuration file that can be accessed by Left clicking on wamp icon.
Select Apache from menu and Click on http.conf file.

DocumentRoot "D:/wamp/www"
<Directory "D:/wamp/www">
You have to access directory to localhost to allow all.
In directory tag,  find the line which says "Allow from 127.0.0.1" Change this line to "Allow from all".

Restart your wamp server.

Cheers . :)






February 11, 2014

Removing index.php from Magento URL

How to Remove .php extension from Magento URL
Here is the solution to remove magento url.

You need to enable mod_rewrite apache server.
Log in to magento admin area.
After that Select System(Probably last menu item) -> Choose Configuration.
Now from left menu panel, under General Section, select web option,
Then in Search Engines Optimization,
Set use web server rewrites to yes.
click on Save configuration to save.

Then Go to the Cache Management under System menu 
Flush magento cache and flush cache storage .
refresh and check the site.

Cherrs  :).

February 06, 2014

How to set Yii description tag and Meta keywords

Here I have put some stuff on how to set yii description tag and meta tag in head tag.

You can use as follows:

<?php 

//Setting yii Description

Yii::app()->clientScript->registerMetaTag('Welcome to Yii Description -  Yii frameworrk', 'description', null, array('lang' => 'en'));

// Setting yii set keywords

Yii::app()->clientScript->registerMetaTag('yii, php framework', 'keywords', null, array('lang' => 'en'));

?>


All you need to register is meta as simple we do in normal web page head struture.