add_action("wp_update_nav_menu" , 'wp_cache_clear_cache' );

• allows end user to choose color option by clicking on thumbnail
• change product image to associated product image

the technique above is inspired from Magento Wiki page that describes the javascript that catches the Options price select event to modifyu the product image. We’ve changed a few things though

1. this example is a color chooser. First thing is to create a folder in media/productColors with thumbnails of available colors, all stored in a file with the name of the color
2. follow the Magento Wiki tutorial carefully
3. instead of adding the code to view.phtml, create a new phtml file
   app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/product/view/WebmasterBulletin_JsConfigColors.phtml with the following code

   <?
       $_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
       $_product = $this->getProduct();
   ?>
   <script type="text/javascript">
       var optionsPrice = new Product.OptionsPrice(<?php echo $this->getJsonConfig() ?>);
   
       var assocIMG = { // Added
       <?php
       if ($_product->getTypeId() == "configurable") {
           $associated_products = $_product->loadByAttribute('sku', $_product->getSku())->getTypeInstance()->getUsedProducts();
   
           foreach ($associated_products as $assoc)
               {$dados[] = $assoc->getId().":'".($assoc->image == "no_selection" || $assoc->image == "" ? $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image', $_product->image)->resize(365,400) : $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($assoc, 'image', $assoc->image)->resize(365,400))."'";
               }
       } else {
           $dados[] =  "''";
       }
       echo implode(',', $dados );
       ?>
       }   
   
   function displayProductConfigImage(id)
   {
   jQuery('#image0').attr('src', assocIMG[id]) ;
   jQuery('#image0').attr('jqimg', assocIMG[id]) ;
   jSelectImage('0');
   }
   function selectColor(idAttribute, idProduct)
   {
   jQuery('#attribute76').val(idAttribute);
   spConfig.reloadPrice();
   displayProductConfigImage(idProduct);
   }
   var tipConfigImgThumb = "Choose your color :";
   </script>
   <?  $ii=0;foreach ($associated_products as $assoc)
            {
            $color=$assoc->getAttributeText("color");
            $w=100; $h=100;
            $imageColorSource =  "/media/productColors/" . strtolower($color) . ".jpg";
            $imageColorResized =  Mage::getBaseUrl() . "/media/phpThumb_1.7.9/phpThumb.php?src=" .  $imageColorSource . "&w=$w&h=$h&iar=1";?>
            <a href="javascript:selectColor(<?=$assoc->getColor()?>, <?=$assoc->getId()?>)" id="ConfigImgThumb<?=$assoc->getId()?>"><img src="<?=$imageColorResized?>" width="<?=$w?>" height="<?=$h?>" alt="<?=$color?>" border="0"></a>
   <script>new Tip('ConfigImgThumb<?=$assoc->getId()?>', tipConfigImgThumb + '<b><?=$color?></b>');</script><?
            }
        ?>

4. reference WebmasterBulletin_JsConfigColors.phtml in layout/catalog.xml, in the catalog/product_view block section :

       <block type="catalog/product_view" name="product.products_jsConfigColors" as="webmasterbulletin_products_js_config_colors" template="catalog/product/view/WebmasterBulletin_JsConfigColors.phtml" />

5. in the product.view.phtml you can now place your color chooser where you like

   <?if ($_product->isSaleable() && $this->hasOptions()) echo $this->getChildHtml('poleouest_products_js_config_colors');?>

• TDO Mini Forms : comes with a lot of options that specify who can publish what and how new posts are moderated
• FV Community News

• create wp-domains folder, and inside one folder for each domain, example wp-domains/mysite.com
• add the following code to wp-config.php : this coding allows a defualt domain to remain active even when the configuration file does not exist, at the expense of a loss in performance. But It is useful to show what’s missing.

$domain = strtolower( str_replace( “www.”, “”, $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] ) );
$domain = preg_replace(’[^a-z0-9\.-]‘, ”, $domain );
$domainDirectory=”/wp-domains/” .$domain;
$domainConfig= dirname(__FILE__) . $domainDirectory . “/db-config.php”;
if ( file_exists( $domainConfig ) ) {require_once( $domainConfig );} else {
$dbuser=”defaultdomaindatabase”;
$dbpwd=”password”;
if ($domain!=”defaultdomain.com”) echo “missing ” .$domainConfig;}

• replace definitions with variables in wp-config.php

define(’DB_NAME’, $dbuser);
define(’DB_USER’, $dbuser);
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, $dbpwd);

Once this is working with your default  domain, setup virtual hosts  in Apache and try a new domain. Remember on a new install to setup the upload folder in wordpress admin settings.

Multi site config for Wordpress : Compatible plugins

I’m running the following plugins and they work perfectly

• WP Super Cache : works fine because the cache filename coding alogrithm includes the domain name

Link  : http://www.frontalcode.com

The expertise around Flash / Flex based CMS is building up a new area for content management. We haven’t had the pleasure to try out the software but the building of wysiwyg interfaces is a promising business, as long as the HTML and Search engine optimization features of pure text are guaranteed : this is where we’d like to know more about FlashMoto’s HTML publishing features, which uses the HTML version technique; meaning the flash based web site is also available as HTML for search engines and non flash browser. This technique is also used by Silex RIA, another Flash based CMS.

What distinguishes FlashMoto from a range of other flash content management systems is that it is the first Flash CMS based on ActionScript 3 and realized as RIA on Flex.   The websites powered by FlashMoto are controlled just like a standard CMS but with the extras that Flash offers.  FlashMoto provides a set of SEO tools what makes the Flash CMS website completely crawlable and seen by search engines.

Flash CMS from FlashMoto is characterized by a range of other features:
- ability to add unlimited number of pages;
- convenient WYSIWYG page and pop-up editor;
- rich media library;
- infomodule component;
- video and image gallery component;
- video and MP3 players component;
- deep linking and Google Analytics integration;
- comprehensive documentation and tutorials.

Fuzzle CMS is a promising Flash CMS delevoped by a group of Russian programmers. The system is claimed to be an extra easy way for creating Flash website thanks to visual content management. Note, Fuzzle’s website is also made with this CMS. Fuzzle brings you advantages of Flash and HTML in one system and affords you create and maintain your website’s content without knowing anything about programming. Flash web sites are differ from regular HTML sites mainly by their presentational abilities: Flash technology allows incorporating complex animations and reach multimedia content. However, Flash sites are considered to have such disadvantages as longer time of development (therefore more cost), harder updating, bad search engines ranking. Fuzzle is breaking these stereotypes!
Main Fuzzle features are: :
- multilinguality;
- simple management (convenient visual editing based on blocks placement and multiple selection of blocks );
- design integration from a draft within 5 minutes;;
- SEO support (HTML version auto generation, DeepLinking support);
- continuously replenished Widget Store availability;
- availability of an open simple API for external developers.

The quote feature  is  an implementation of a shopping cart within prestashop framework, without the price : we have designed this feature for specific groups, for which we deactivate the price display on the shop.

• Deactivating price display for specific user group (below : group 2) is a long task that involves 2 different steps
  • in init.php : set the smarty variable around line 116
    1. $priceDisplayConfig = intval(Configuration::get(‘PS_PRICE_DISPLAY’));
    2. if($tmpCust->isMemberOfGroup(2)) $priceDisplayConfig = 3;

    And around line 155

    1. ‘priceDisplay’ => $priceDisplayConfig
  • use the smarty $priceDisplay variable in the templates to hide prices and change the “cart’ (panier in french) to “quote” (devis), example from homefeature.tpl
    1. {if $priceDisplay<3}{l s=‘Add to cart’ mod=‘homefeatured’}{else} Ajouter au devis {/if}
• Quote / Devis module and status :
  • Download and install the “devis” module Module Devis pour prestashop (559)
  • create the mails/devis.html and mail/devis.txt and change texts according to your business
  • create the order status “devis en cours” in BackOffice >> Orders >> statuses, check the created id (12 here) and add the following line to config.inc.php :
    1. define(‘_PS_OS_DEVIS_EN_COURS’, 12);
  • You can optionnally deactivate the order confirmation email in classes/PaymentModule.php, line 288-290, replace the send email to customer test by adding a new condition :
    1.         // Send an e-mail to customer
    2. if ($id_order_state != _PS_OS_ERROR_ AND $id_order_state != _PS_OS_CANCELED_ AND $customer->id
    3. AND $id_order_state != _PS_OS_DEVIS_EN_COURS)