When using IntelliJ or PHPStorm as IDE, I use the autoformat for code (Code -> Reformat Code or Ctrl+Alt+L). It works great. But in some cases I need to disable autoformat for some parts of the code. This is how you can disable autoformat in your code: // @formatter:off echo ‘HERE COMES A LOT’ . ‘ […]
Today a colleague of mine ask me if it is possible to call a class constant inside of another class by generating the constant name on the fly. The reason was, that he had multiple constants in one class that had patterned / generic names like that: <?php class IAM_A_CLASS{ const IAM_A_CONSTANT_1 = 1; const […]
To save time and because it’s not that smart to repeatedly retype the same things multiple times, you can user custom variables in MySQL like that: SET @store := 1, @name_id := 71, @short_desc_id := 72, @desc_id := 73; SELECT CPE.sku AS sku, CPEVN.value AS name, CPEVSD.value AS short_description, CPEVD.value AS description FROM catalog_product_entity AS […]
For the URL we have: Mage::getSkinUrl() But what about the file system path to the current theme? Therefor you can use: Mage::getDesign()->getSkinBaseDir();
