I nearly went insane trying to solve a problem where adding to cart or doing anything in the cart caused the dreaded White Screen of Death or WSOD. I tried increasing memory limit, checking error logs, to no avail. I narrowed the problem down to the theme I had developed, as Garland didn’t cause the same problem. For me the solution was super simple. I was editing my theme’s template.php file in notepad and just saving as the default UTF-8 format. Once I saved as ANSI and uploaded the file, no more WSOD. I have found this to solve a few other problems in other systems as well. Always remember to try this before all the more complex solutions.
Changing Magento Validation
To change magento checkout validation, you can change the class of the form field to use one of the other validation methods present in js/prototype/validation.js. Just open that file and scroll down to see the methods available. Search fo r this Validation.addAllThese and you’ll see the methods below. Then open up /app/design/frontend/default/YOUR THEME/template/checkout/onepage/billing.html then change …
Mystery Space Caused by the Byte Order Mark (BOM)
This took way too long to figure out, hopefully this will help someone else. If you have a mystery space occurring somewhere in your web site and it is not one of the many CSS bugs out there then the byte order mark might be the culprit. Here’s a quote taken from the Joomla forums: …
Customizing Joomla 1.5 and VirtueMart
I’m thinking it might be a good idea to record the changes I’m making to Joomla 1.5 for posterity. Hopefully I can consult this post when setting up a similar site in Joomla in the future and others can as well. So here goes. 1. First thing — installed Joomla, then installed the VirtueMart package. …
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