ZenMagick

    To see the progress I am digging through the resolved issues and that list is slowly but steadily growing. Right now there are about 7 issues left, although some might not get resolved for the next release. One of the bigger issues is to upgrade ZenMagick to using the symfony routing component. This [...]

Preparations for starting to use the symfony routing component are almost complete. This will replace the current url mappings – another piece of ZenMagick code retired in favour of a proven, externally maintained component. With the url mappings gone things will be a lot easier and perhaps it will even be possible to drop the [...]

Finally some more progress – and almost visible I’ve created a new (empty) app for the store-installer to come. Things will start humble, but I hope over time this will grow into the kind of installer we’ve all been dreaming about…

With all the infrastructure work on ZenMagick, there is unfortunately not much progress in terms of real features. One thing I managed to do today, tough, is coming close to progress. The new email code now properly supports zencart smtpauth option and does work with gmail out-of-the-box. So, not really a new feature, but satisfying [...]

Some people might have noticed issue 363 to add support for twig templates to ZenMagick. As you can see from the initial comments, I first thought we might add this as a plugin. This was a fair assumption, considering that a long time ago I already had a working prototype of a twig plugin working [...]

One of the things I’d like to get started on is to set up (and start using) the symfony2 routing. For this I think it would be a good time to rethink the current urls and come up with some improvements. I’d like to get some ideas for urls, so if you have an opinion [...]

ZenMagick does support the concept of environments. For example, there are different config files for ‘dev’ and ‘prod’. One of the ways to switch to a different environment is to change index.php to index_[environment].php. So far this was limited to admin, but no more! The only issue is that yo will need to change the [...]

The current ZenMagick release does suffer a bit from performance issues. Progress on this is tracked in issue 353. There are a number of improvements that have already gone into the code that is going to be ZenMagick 0.9.14. Conversion of code into namespaces This is a biggie, as using namespaces means we can slowly [...]

Last week I helped analyze a case where moving a zencart installation to a new server caused the dps payment module to break. It didn’t take too long to find out that the redirect from the pxpay payment page back to the store was quite long. After some more digging it was then found (not [...]

I am happy to announce the availability of ZenMagick 0.9.13. It’s been a long time coming and it does include a number of good things. One thin is definitely the extended use of the sfymfony2 dependency injection container. A lot more framework code changes are centred around streamlining configuration and customization and having a clean [...]