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WP Ecommerce Scale Image instead of Cropping

Ok i recently had the problem where i wanted to define a max size for the images in my shopping cart. I didn’t want to set a static size for my entire carts images.
Eg I wanted it to be max of 300px height or width but not 300px wide and 300px high.
So if the image [...]

Creating a catch all sub domain system

Ok recently i needed a catch all system for a website i was creating. All the tutorials i went through needed me to change the httpd.conf file. Pretty hard to do when on shared hosting. But found the solution to it using CPanel functions.
Instead of adding *.domain.com to the httpd.conf file
ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com *.domain.com
Answer below

You [...]

‘Length’ is null or not an object error in FCKEditor

So i’m back after a lengthy absence in posting fixes. No that’s not because i haven’t had any frustrating bugs that i’ve worked long and hard to solve. Simply i’ve been too busy. Came across this problem in IE where it throws a length is null or not an object error.

After lengthy google searching and [...]

file_exists doesn’t work for me

Ok i’ve run across this problem a few times in my programming life, where file_exists always returns false. I don’t think i’ve ever properly fixed it. Generally I make some crappy work around, which ends up causing more harm than good.

So here’s a small checklist to solve the problem.

Check the file path you are [...]

FCKEditor shows current website instead of editor area

FCKEditor can sometime display a website in it’s iframe instead of the editor panel. This is especially common when using .htaccess rewrite engine.
A friend of mine encountered this issue for a second time, we both always seem to forget the solution, so he suggested I write a blog about it.

When using FCKEditor and our cms [...]

Firefox Losing Session Variables on Redirect

So I’ve been attempting to deal with an issue on a CMS I made for quite sometime. When People logged into the CMS they would be redirected to the Homepage from the Login page. They would get a first glimpse of the homepage then once they clicked a link they would be redirected back to [...]