I realised it was due to the images needing to load from my server. So i implemented a number of Asynchronous Image Loading classes but they all weren’t sufficient for what i wanted.

I needed something that cached the images, something that was super easy to implement, and robust.

Enter SDWebImage

With a simple call to your UIImageView you can make image loading hassle free and much faster than traditional image loading.

[cell.imageView setImageWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com.au/logos/2011/brancusi11-hp.jpg"]
placeholderImage: [UIImage imageNamed: @"placeholder.png"]];

You’re done!

The class also has examples in the Readme about adding Asynchronous image calls into other elements etc.

Enjoy!

Eg I wanted it to be max of 300px height or width but not 300px wide and 300px high.

So if the image is landscape it would be 300px wide and whatever it works it out to be height (eg 200px, anything lower than 300px). If it was portrait then i want the largest dimension to be the height (at 300px with the above example).

Here are the things i did to achieve this.

Please note – you will need knowledge of PHP to achieve this.

First you need to add this section of code to the file misc.functions.php – located in WP Ecommerce folder/wpsc-includes/
Add this code to the switch($scaling_method) { statement (make sure it’s above the last option
case 'scale':
if (empty($width) || empty($height))
{
if (!empty($width))
$maxSize = $width;
else if (!empty($height))
$maxSize = $height;
else
{
//error
}
}else
{
if ($width > $height)
$maxSize = $width;
else
$maxSize = $height;
}

list($temp_w, $temp_h) = calculate_image_width_and_height($source_w, $source_h, $maxSize, $allowEnlarge=true);
$width = $temp_w;
$height = $temp_h;

break;

Replace

// select our scaling method
$scaling_method = 'cropping';

with

// select our scaling method
$scaling_method = 'scale';


You’ll also have to change theme.functions.php in the same directory as misc.functions.php
You’ll need to remove the css that the file creates.
Namely the Single View Styling
And the last 3 Default View Styling css statements.

The final change is part of your theme – i’m using the default theme, i’m not sure if you’ll have to change it for other themes or not.

Default theme – change single_product.php put a table around the following divs (below the div class=’textcol’ div)
<table width='100%' class='nocolour'>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>
<div>
Image Stuff is here
</div>
</td>
<td valign='top'>
<div>
...
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

I think some css changes need to be done to get this to work (namely removing the postition:relative and some of the floats and positioning for imagecol and producttext)

Once that is all done – you need to go the Presentation area of the Settings Area of WP E-commerce. Go to the Single Product Image Size part and fill in only one of the text boxes, leave the other blank.
That should make it work for your images. I’ll be doing this for another client soon so if the process is different i’ll let you know

Instead of adding *.domain.com to the httpd.conf file

ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com *.domain.com

Answer below

You can create a subdomain using the cpanel function with * as the subdomain title. You can set it’s fileroot as public_html to redirect to the root folder, or set up as something else.

if you want an example of htaccess that would send the subdomain to the script -

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) $1?subDomain=%2 [L]

</IfModule>

After lengthy google searching and tinkering I found the problem to be an extra comma at the end of one of my custom toolbar sets in the fckconfig.js file

/editor/fckconfig.js is the default file path.

Hope this helps anyone in trouble.

Cheers

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

1. Check the file path you are actually sending the function. eg file_exists(BASE_DIR . “/images/image1.jpg”);
   • I always like to do a print_r on whatever is in between the brackets just to make sure i’m not completely inept.
   • For this example i have too many ‘/’ that could be causing me dilemmas.
2. Check that the folders/files you are accessing don’t have any safe mode restrictions.
3. If those 2 solutions didn’t work and you have ensured you have passed the correct file path then put a call to the function “clearstatcache()” before the file_exists function.

If you still have problems even after that, then send me a comment and I’ll help you debug it.

Happy Coding

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 we use htaccess redirects, but because they cascade through the sub folders FCKEditor also follows these Redirects.

To make FCKEditor work properly simple add…

RewriteEngine off

…to the .htaccess file in the editor directory.  This will keep FCKEditor using it default settings and not trying to use your parent folder redirects.

Enjoy!

The problem was firefox feels that http://www.mysite.com is a totally separate site to http://mysite.com so it resets the SESSION variables.

I changed my links which i had prepended the domain to for some unknown reason (I’m sure there was a logical reason when i wrote it), so I changed it to /pageNames.html and all was well in the world again.

While researching this bug I found some other solutions

• Call session_write_close() before using a header redirect in PHP
• The worst possible solution would be to pass the SESSION Id (SID) in the url (not recommended) but nevertheless if worse comes to worse it is a solution.

Hope this helps someone. Until next bug.. keep up the good work.