VitalSource Magento Integration/Extension

Problem:
No third party Vitalsource extension exists for Magento.

Solution:
Build custom Vitalsource extension to allow customers to purchase e-books via Magento and redeem their publications via Vitalsource (for three-way access to books: online, downloaded and mobile).
Customer Experience:  customer purchases e-book from Magento store. Email order confirmation contains a link to instructions on how to redeem e-book. Order confirmation also contains a Vitalsource bookshelf code (for each item). Customer order history contain bookshelf codes for all items and also redemption links/instructions.  To redeem an e-book, customers will visit Vitalsource .com directly, create an account or login to existing account, and enter bookshelf code (to redeem book).

Replace/Remove Non-Breaking Space in ASPDNSF XSLT

Problem: How to replace the non-breaking space character ( ) in an XSLT string.

Solution: Use the StrReplace function and string =  
e.g.
<xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:StrReplace(string, '&amp;nbsp;', '')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Internet Download Speed Slow

Problem:
On a fresh installation of Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 and latest LAN drivers, internet download speeds and browsing are very very slow.

Solution:
Run the following in the cmd window:
netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability = disabled

Magento Add Block DIV Wrapper/Container Using Template

Problem:
How to wrap block html in a div wrapper/container (and set class name) using a template file (e.g. local.xml).

Solution:
e.g. wrap a div wrapper/container around the standard Magento newsletter subscribe block.

<block type="page/html_wrapper" name="subscribe.container" translate="label">
    <label>Subscribe Container</label>
    <action method="setElementClass"><value>subscribe-container</value></action>
    <block type="newsletter/subscribe" name="newsletter" after="leftMenu" template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml"/>
</block>

Magento Allow Style/Script/HTML5 Tags in CMS Pages

Magento Enterprise version 1.14.0.1

Problem:

The Magento rich text editor tinymce removes style, script, and html5 tags when CMS pages, static block etc. are saved.

Solution:

Warning – requires a source code change and is NOT upgrade friendly.

1. Edit file \js\mage\adminhtml\wysiwyg\tiny_mce\setup.js
2. Find the section starting with: var settings = {
3. Add a new parameter e.g. paste the following code (to allow style, script, html5 tags) after the line: theme_advanced_resizing : true,

extended_valid_elements : 'style,script,section,article,aside',

Note that the tinymce version number can be found in this file: \js\tiny_mce\tiny_mce_src.js

 

Magento Community version 1.7.0.2

Problem:

The Magento rich text editor tinymce removes style tags when CMS pages, static block etc. are saved.

Solution:

Warning – requires a source code change and is NOT upgrade friendly.

1. Edit file \js\mage\adminhtml\wysiwyg\tiny_mce\setup.js
2. Find the section starting with: var settings = {
3. Add a new parameter e.g. paste the following code (to allow style tags) after the line: theme_advanced_resizing : true,

valid_children : '+body[style]',

And to allow both style and script tags:

valid_children : '+body[style|script]',

Note that the tinymce version number can be found in this file: \js\tiny_mce\tiny_mce_src.js

DotNetNuke URL Update Portal Alias

Problem:

A DNN site is running ok in production.  If a copy of the database is used to run the DNN site locally (on a local url) the site will continue to redirect to the production url.

Solution:

Update the DNN portal alias to use the new local url.  Update the HTTPAlias field in the PortalAlias table and restart the website (e.g. touch the web.config).

IS Topic Not Displaying on ISE Website

Interprise Suite Version 6.x

Problem:

A topic is defined in IS but is not showing up in ISE as expected.

Solution:

In IS, edit the topic and ensure the checkbox “Show On Web” is checked.