ZenMagick

A while ago I wrote that I’ve been working on (yet) another implementation of the ZenMagick database API using PDO. After some back and forth (the code was removed and readded yesterday) I’ve started working on that again. There are a couple good reasons for that. Firstly, since Creole is not supported any more, having another implementation [...]

As some might have figured by now, most of the work on ZenMagick is on the actual framework these days.  One aspect I thought I was finished working on are URL mappings. However, while working on setting up the new mappings to use the new search controller I realized that there is a lot of redundancy [...]

So far all code [classes and interfaces in particular] in ZenMagick rely on the loader to ensure that extended classes and implemented interface used are loaded. So far this has worked quite well. Reasons for doing this are: Late binding of the ... [More] actual implementation of classes Having a central place that handles file loading In case core.php is used [...] [Less]

I happened to notice a  search ‘when is zencart 2.0 actually coming‘ in today’s log. It’s a good question. Unfortunately I do not know the answer, but I do know that the next ZenMagick release is not far! Today I checked in the final changes to make the category pages use the new sql based [...]

With the number of things on my todo list for the next release shringking fast its time to have a look at what is about to happen in the next ZenMagick release. I’ve already written about a few things, but I think it is also nice to have it all in one place. (Also, these posts [...]

I am currently going through all unit tests to slowly prepare for the next release. Since all tax service tests failed for a while I decided to see what that was about. The tests are based on the ‘Florida local sales tax zone‘ settings that come with the initial install of a Zen Cart store. Since [...]

Form validation rules Since it is now possible to either add or replace validation rules for a given form id, there is a pitfall in that plugins typically set up their custom validation rules before the global/theme validation rules are loaded. If a theme developer decides to override the default rules for a form those plugin [...]

There is constant interest in my last post about phpBB support. Seeing that phpBB2 is getting a bit old and phpBB3 the way to go I decided to have another stab at phpBB3 integration. Rather than write just some straight SQL I’ve played a bit with using phpBB code directly from a plugin. Had I seen [...]

Yesterday I landed some code changes that will should show major performance improvements browsing large result lists. Result lists together with filter and sorter options are managed by the class with the obvious name ZMResultList. So far, sorting ... [More] and filtering is done in memory. While this allows for simple code to add sorting and filtering options, [...] [Less]

I was recently asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a book about Zen Cart. Since I’ve never read a book about it I figured that that could perhaps be an interesting experience [Usually, I prefer to read the source]. The name of the book is Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development, written by Suhreed Sarkar. It’s [...]