Last couple of days I was testing the new bright and shiny e-commerce engine Magento.
The main reason why I wanted to switch from the OS:commerce-like solutions was amount of fine-tuning required. It never works perfectly out of the box. Nor should it, to be honest. It’s not a box product, it’s a basis for the further development. Yo can not have an e-shop on it without professional php-developer standing beside.
Magento actually looked much better, judging from their website. More marketing-wise.
Hovewer, on the second day of the testing, without much poking the system crashed. The message was a typical Open Source fun, something like “Strict Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in …/lib/Zend/Db/Select.php on line 246”
And the solution was of course found immediately via Google, here . They suggested to go directly to the source code of the library and use your dirty hands change some construction:
Find this line in the above file:
$correlationName = current(array_keys($this->_parts[self::FROM]));
Replace the above 1 line with the following 2 lines:
$correlationName = array_keys($this->_parts[self::FROM]);
$correlationName = $correlationName[0];
It worked, of course. So much for the box product Magento , I guess once open source, forever open source.
