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Magento – Backslashes added when data saved to database – problem

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Joachim 0n May 30 2008

I have a “spontaneous” problem. When I save data from the backend there are apear extra backslashes at the saved data, it is with single quote, double quote and backslash.The data with the extra backslashes is saved at the database. So for now the solution is to change it manually at the database.

It seems like a magic_quotes problem so I checked the following:

PHP info gives:
Global Local
magic_quotes_gpc Off Off
magic_quotes_runtime Off Off
magic_quotes_sybase Off Off

-> oke

I tried a user-input print with GET/POST, works fine ->oke

The function get_magic_quotes_runtime returns 0 , so magic quotes runtime is off. -> oke

So what can be the problem? A addslahes? A library? Any ideas?

There is also a bug report with something similar.

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Magento – Chat with fellow community members at magentocommerce.com/chat

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n May 28 2008

We’ve added a new Chat feature to facilitate further communication by the community.

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Magento – Changing the New Order Admin RSS Feed

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by alistek 0n May 25 2008

This is for anyone interested in changing the RSS New Order feed under the Orders section in the backend. I had need for simplicity sake to allow the RSS feed to be read with all the info, i.e. credit card, billing, shipping, etc. by the staff dealing with new orders. By default the new orders feed does not show much info.

Alright, first for the one that I needed the most. How to pull the unencrypted credit card number. What we are going to do is actually pull the encrypted one first and then using the core helper function decrypt, unencrypt that one and echo it.

As you can see I added both the $encrypted and $unencrypted variable in there. There are several sections under the $_order variable, notably payment, shipping, billing, items. The getCcNumberEnc correlates to the field in the database of Cc_Number_Enc and by doing a getCcNumberEnc will automatically look up that field for the current number and return it. This works for any field in the database that is pulled by the $this->getOrder();. Therefore you can continue to echo the values that you want, i.e.:

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Magento – Importing products – using a cron job to call Magento Dataflow import

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by srinigenie 0n May 21 2008

Am trying to import all products using Cron. Referred to thread

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1982/#

But that doesnt work on the latest version. So am still scratching my head and rewriting. Would appreciate if anyone can share their experience on using Cron for dataflow module.

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Magento – Sales Tax by County

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by rollockg 0n May 20 2008

I would like Magento to havve the functionality of having tax rates by county within state, and also allowing a drop down / data entry field for county when the customer adds their shipping information so that the correct sale tax can be applied at purchase time.

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Magento – Magento Training by php|architect

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n May 19 2008

We are very excited to announce a partnership between Varien and Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. (“MTA”), publishers of php|architect, for the development and marketing of training programs for the Magento eCommerce platform.

View the announcement on the blog and visit the Magento Training page.

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Magento – Magento on Freewarefiles vote 5 / 5 for it

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by eitai2001 0n May 17 2008

Thought I’d give Magento a publicity boost, so I put it on freewarefiles.com … here is the link:

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Magento-Commerce_program_41750.html

So guys, go vote 5/5 for it … then more people will download it, then it may even get an editors pick award, and then more people will download it, then the community will expand even quicker because millions of people use that site, which means more contributions will start being made, and its better for all of us … so go vote … and download off their server too … cause then the amount of downloads will increase. Its been up there just under 2 days and already 30 downloads.

To the Magento Team … perhaps include this image: http://www.freewarefiles.com/banners/download_now.gif … with the link above under the downloads section … that way more people can go there, and vote as well … it will increase Magento’s popularity

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Magento – Nominate Magento for the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n May 15 2008

The Open Source awards season is in full swing. Help us get Magento nominated for the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards.

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Magento – Magento eBook

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by TechDivision 0n May 08 2008

Ab sofort steht das erste deutschprachige Magento eBook bei uns zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Auf mehr als 30 Seiten wird ein Schnelleinstieg in Magento vermittelt. Das eBook kann unter http://blog.techdivision.com/magento-schnelleinfuhrung/ gratis heruntergeladen werden.

Über Feedback und Anregungen würden wir uns sehr freuen.

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Magento – Magento eBook

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by TechDivision Oz 0n May 8 2008

Ab sofort steht das erste deutschprachige Magento eBook bei uns zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Auf mehr als 30 Seiten wird ein Schnelleinstieg in Magento vermittelt. Das eBook kann unter http://blog.techdivision.com/magento-schnelleinfuhrung/ gratis heruntergeladen werden.

Über Feedback und Anregungen würden wir uns sehr freuen.

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Magento – Pre-orders

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by brandondrew 0n May 07 2008

I don’t know if your upcoming backorders feature will handle pre-orders or not, so let me describe what is needed for pre-orders (by me at least, and I’m guessing lots of other people).

The main thing is that the credit card cannot be charged until the product is on the premises. (As I understand it, this is true by law in California at least, and probably all of the U.S., and probably other places as well. And even store owners who are not obligated by law to do this will hopefully want to avoid ticking off their customers by charging for things well in advance.)

Because customers will not generally want their pre-order to be separate from all their other orders, the store should separate this charge from a charge for the rest of what they are ordering.

I believe it may be possible for Authorize.net to store charges for later processing, so if so it would be most helpful if the store handled as much of this processing as possible. If not, some other way of separating the charge for the pre-order from the other charges and submitting it separately (maybe to a custom gateway?)

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Magento – Important: Patch For Magento Release 1.0.19700

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n May 02 2008

A patch for Magento Release 1.0.19700 is now available.

Please refer to this blog post for further details.

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