CodeIgniter’s new cart class lets you build robust shopping carts quickly for your site in php, but doesn’t, out of the box, let you add products that have non-alpha-numeric (and dashes, underscores, colons or periods) product names into the cart. Here’s the proper way to extend the class that is upgrade-proof.
Author: Michael Tracey
Michael is lead tech at Ponderwell, as well as CTO of Biblio and enjoys the mountains of Western North Carolina with his family. His hobbies include Photography and playing games with his son.
Until Firefox gets full css3 word-wrap: break-word support…
Ok, so you have a beautiful layout. You are letting users insert data (properly validated, of course), and someone posts a raw URL or other text without a space in it. Your layout is, well, borked. You could of course: wrap the text in a div and apply an overflow-x:auto and give it… Read more »
Adding Google Analytics to “WordPress AudioPlayer”
If you are using the WordPress AudioPlayer plugin on your site, you know that it’s a versatile flash player with many options. The missing option from my point of view is tracking the playing of the audio tracks themselves. I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics tracking to the player, so you can get… Read more »
Adding custom status notifications to Shopp
I use Shopp on a number of websites. As a cart, I’d say it’s “mostly there”, but occasionally, I find ways to extend the system to make it more functional. One of the additions that I find customers requesting regularly is the ability to make custom email templates based on the status of an order…. Read more »
Shopp USPS plugin and the British Empire
If you are a fan of Shopp (http://shopplugin.net/), you’ve probably been happy that there’s a built-in solution for shopping carts from inside the WordPress interface. You’ll also be happy to learn that it’s themeable and extendable much like WordPress itself. But you are also going to be aware that quite a few features are there,… Read more »
WordPress Plugin: ACLoginWidget
A free plugin by Ponderwell to create a customizable login form to ActiveCollab as a Wordpress Widget
Dropbox and KeePass: the password mashup
Let’s face it, working with clients with complex networking infrastructures is a pain. As a contractor, you are offsite, outside of the normal water-cooler knowledge system. You don’t hear that XYZ website forced John to change the password to the company’s twitter feed. In a perfect world, every auxiliary system your clients would use would allow access to the same data… Read more »