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Load custom php.ini with CRON job

Friday, 13 February 2015 14:46

Tim Ramsey

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Live and learn. I didn’t realize that when a cron job runs, it does not load the site php.ini file, but by adding a custom directive, we can tell the the php cron job to load the file.

php -c /home/username/config/php.ini /home/username/script.php

1	php -c /home/username/config/php.ini /home/username/script.php

The error I was receiving is below even though I had allow_url_fopen enabled:

Warning: simplexml_load_file(): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /home/username/script.php on line 12

Adding the custom directive resolved the issue and hopefully will for you too.

How to duplicate | copy a Magento Database with SSH

Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:41

Tim Ramsey

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I was a bit hopeful with phpMyAdmin “Synchronize”, but Magento’s databases are apparently too big for it because I ended up with white screens and partial uploads. I resorted to using SSH and doing it over command line. Two lines of code and you can export from your live database and import into a production database. Here you go. Export

mysqldump -u username -p database_name > dump.sql

1	mysqldump -u username -p database_name > dump.sql

Import

mysql -u username -p target_database_name < dump.sql

1	mysql -u username -p target_database_name < dump.sql

Hopefully saved you some time and frustration 🙂

How to change “Date Modified” in Windows with PowerShell

Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:24

Tim Ramsey

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I was doing some development locally and needed to change the file time on some files so I could delete certain files in a directory. Below is the code I used to change the files modified time:

$a = Get-Item C:\file-in-question.txt
$b = Get-Date "11/10/2014 8:00 AM"
$a.LastWriteTime = $b

$a = Get-Item C:\file-in-question.txt

$b = Get-Date "11/10/2014 8:00 AM"

$a.LastWriteTime = $b

Hopefully you find this as useful as I did!

Couple of useful Powershell commands

Sunday, 10 August 2014 18:01

Tim Ramsey

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Write all contents of folder to a .txt file. Helpful if you have a folder of images and need a .txt list

Get-ChildItem C:\img | ForEach-Object { $_.Name } > C:\img\ims.txt

1	Get-ChildItem C:\img \| ForEach-Object { $_.Name } > C:\img\ims.txt

Recursive find query. Super helpful to find code snippets within a local project

Get-ChildItem "C:\inetpub\tlwchurch" -recurse | Select-String -pattern "navigation->child_link" | group path | select name

1	Get-ChildItem "C:\inetpub\tlwchurch" -recurse \| Select-String -pattern "navigation->child_link" \| group path \| select name

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Load custom php.ini with CRON job

How to duplicate | copy a Magento Database with SSH

How to change “Date Modified” in Windows with PowerShell

Couple of useful Powershell commands

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