Today I learned, one can use JSON in Magento 1’s layout xml. Tell Magento which action parameter are json and that’s it. You can tell Magento that only one parameter is json, like this. Then Magento decodes the json and uses it. I was very lucky to see it today, because I needed an array. […]

We migrated a Magento to Shopware and one of the things we had to do is find a solution to redirect the old URLs. Easy solution: VHost config Most of the time you can just add them to the VHost config, so they are loaded once with the apache and used by the apache. No […]

Yesterday I had to improve RewriteRules. We redirected the old Magento 1 /catalogsearch/ search urls to the homepage. Yesterday the penny dropped and we decided to redirect it to the Shopware search ? How to do this you asked? But more important to me is, how to implement this. Stackoverflow helps, the documentation from Apache […]

Once upon a time I sat together with Thomas Lohner from ScaleCommerce and built a demo setup for Lizards and Pumpkins. It was great but most of the work he did, because he was (and most likely is still the docker master of the two of us). It was a great setup: We (and this […]

I just stumbled over an interesting problem. A customer of mine told me, that they are trying for weeks to get filters working and for some reason it just didn’t work. It sounded like an easy to fix problem to me, but the fact, that the (good) developers of the customer didn’t fix it themselves […]