Magento Fixed – Description not showing, Change on your old template to work with 1.4.1.1

By: VincentNovember 9th, 2010Magento4 CommentsShort URL: http://tny.hk/1vf

After the new updates to magento, if your template description field suddenly disappear from the frontend, don’t panic. It’s just a simple line of code change will fix this problem. Open catalog.xml and view.phtml, and you will need to make the following change.

This is the code that magento had changed.
Old line of code, this code can be find under this location,
app/design/frontend/default/YOURTHEME/template/catalog/product/view.phtml or
app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/view.phtml

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('description') ?>

New implementation from magento core for 1.4.1.1

<?php foreach ($this->getChildGroup('detailed_info', 'getChildHtml') as $alias => $html):?>
    <div class="box-collateral <?php echo "box-{$alias}"?>">
        <?php if ($title = $this->getChildData($alias, 'title')):?>
        <h2><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($title); ?></h2>
        <?php endif;?>
        <?php echo $html; ?>
    </div>
<?php endforeach;?>

So next you will need to look for the following code in your template file.
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“Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually” after Magento is installed

By: Michael WaiOctober 22nd, 2010Magento5 CommentsShort URL: http://tny.hk/1v8

After Magento is installed, you may have the error “Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually” when clicking on some pages in both backend and frontend. Usually it will be happened in shared web hosting, but also in individual server if the permission of tmp folder set wrong.

Many bloggers suggested to modify the core file “/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php” to fix this problem. However, it may be a trap when you upgrade your Magento. I recommend to use Magento’s override feature.
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FIX for Magento 1.4 install does not work

By: VincentMarch 3rd, 2010Magento40 CommentsShort URL: http://tny.hk/2p

This is a fix for the clean installation process of Magento 1.4.x.

Once you click in to the link provided, you will be direct to a page with the following message.

There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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