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Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

Magento 1.4 is out and here are some notable features:

    * Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
    * Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes Read more: Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

How to improve Magento performance, to get fastest eCommerce site

Recently a client asked us how to make his Magento based eCommerce site with best performance, here comes our advices:

1) Enable opcode cache, for example APC or Zend Guard.

2) Enable cache and compress for static files, e.g.  css,  image,  js,  swf

3) Magento needs much more memory than any other PHP scripts, so add more memory if possible.

4) If there is more than one server, we can move static files to another one, including files under /js, /media, /skin

Zend and Magento Building All-In-One eCommerce Solution

BARGENTO, PARIS – November 9, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications. As a result of the new partnership, the Community Edition of Varien’s popular Magento™ eCommerce software will ship with the Community Edition of Zend Server, Zend’s high performance PHP Web application server.

Read more: Zend and Magento Building All-In-One eCommerce Solution

Atliva Selects EveBit Digital as Zend Framework Development Partner!

The Web 2.0 company Atliva from Silicon Valley, USA Selects EveBit Digital as Zend Framework Development Partner for its internet application.

Preview version of new EveBit site launches

Preview version of  new EveBit site launches at the end of 2009, more contents will be added soon; it will provide more exciting blogs, articles and portfolios!

Another engineer passed Zend Certified Engineer

EveBit is glad to announce that our another engineer passed the most authoritative certification: Zend Certified Engineer (http://www.zend.com/services/certification).

Integrate shadowbox (alternative of lightbox) 3.0b with Magento

A new version of shadowbox 3.0b relasesed recently, when I was trying to integrate it with Magento, there were some troubles, so I'd like to write down my steps here to help others may have the same situation like me.

There is a wiki article discribed how to "Adding Shadowbox to Magento", but that's for shadowbox 2, which is outdated I think.

Here comes new steps to add latest shadowbox 3.0b to Magento, if you have any questions, please leave a comment so that I may help you:

Magento: Searching product by category

In "advanced search" feature, searching product by category is not the default setting.  But we can do this by modifying the foloowing files:

app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Block/Advanced/Form.php
app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Advanced.php
app/design/yourdesign/yourdesign/template/catalogsearch/advanced/form.phtml

Introducing the Magento Enterprise Edition!

Over the past year Magento  seen the tremendous success and uptake of Magento in the market and the opportunities for the product are indeed exciting. Over 750,000 downloads, 85,000+ community members and the leadership position as the #1 enterprise grade open source eCommerce solution in the market.

Yesterday marked a major milestone for Varien and Magento with the release of the Magento Enterprise Edition. The product is a culmination of months of work and countless feedback from our community, partners and customers.