30 May 2014
Ecosystem
RoboGen: Generating a robots.txt File from Real Site Data During Cleanup Work
Why generating robots rules from known site aliases can be useful during post-hack cleanup, and where that idea becomes risky.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
28 May 2014
Ecosystem
What evoFilter Promised for Evolution CMS Product Filtering
A short ecosystem note on the need for a more convenient filter stack in Evolution-era catalog projects.
27 May 2014
Guides
Filtering Ditto Output by Tag TVs Without Relying on Generated Query Strings
How to structure Ditto tag filtering when products need to appear on predefined pages instead of generated tag-result URLs.
26 May 2014
Guides
Getting the Current Page Alias Through the Evolution CMS API
How to access the current resource alias from a snippet when you need it in custom API-driven logic.
23 May 2014
Guides
Requiring a Consent Checkbox in eForm Without Losing Filled Fields
How to block form submission until a consent checkbox is checked while still preserving the user’s entered values.
22 May 2014
Guides
Using a Central Exchange Rate for Shopkeeper Pricing
How to keep Shopkeeper prices tied to a single exchange-rate value so a whole catalog can react to one update.
22 May 2014
Guides
Making autoFilter Case-Insensitive in Evolution CMS
How to make text-based filtering behave the same for uppercase and lowercase values in autoFilter-style listing workflows.
21 May 2014
Guides
Adjusting TV Field Sizes and the Main Content Area in the Manager
How to think about resizing TV input fields and the main content area when ManagerManager is not enough on its own.
20 May 2014
Guides
Showing a Reliable Success Message After eForm Submission on Long Pages
How to display a visible success state after eForm submission when multiple forms and long-page layouts make simple popup logic unreliable.
19 May 2014
Best Practices
Investigating a Hacked `site_url` That Redirects the Entire Site Elsewhere
How to investigate a compromised Evolution CMS site when the base URL begins pointing to a malicious or unknown domain.
17 May 2014
Guides
Creating Resources from eForm Data in Evolution CMS
How to turn an eForm submission into a newly created resource instead of just sending an email.
17 May 2014
Best Practices
Fixing the “Delete Locks” Tool After Moving a Site to Another Host
What to check when the manager lock-cleanup action stops responding after a site migration.
15 May 2014
Best Practices
What an Intermittent Blank Resource Editor Usually Means in Evolution CMS
How to think about manager edit panes that periodically go blank and then recover later without any obvious action.
15 May 2014
Guides
Implementing Quantity-Based Discounts Per Product in Shopkeeper
How to model product-specific quantity discounts when each item should change price based on how many units of that same product are in the cart.
14 May 2014
Guides
Why getResources Can Keep Outputting Fields from the Current Page Instead of the Requested Resource
How to avoid template-field confusion when getResources is asked to render data from a specific resource.
13 May 2014
Best Practices
Eliminating Duplicate Home-Page Variants Caused by Garbage Slash and Query Patterns
How to stop malformed slash-heavy and punctuation-heavy URLs from resolving to the home page and creating duplicate content.
10 May 2014
Guides
Why a PHx Condition Can Fail Even When the Placeholder Value Looks Correct
How to debug PHx conditional output when a placeholder visibly contains the expected value but the branch still does not match.
09 May 2014
Best Practices
Fixing E_DEPRECATED Notice Errors After Upgrading from Evolution 1.0.12 to 1.0.13
How to interpret E_DEPRECATED constant errors and header warnings that appear immediately after an Evolution CMS upgrade.
08 May 2014
Ecosystem
Why resource.php Broke After Updating to Evolution CMS 1.0.13
A compatibility note on older resource helper libraries that stopped saving documents correctly after upgrading to 1.0.13.
08 May 2014
Best Practices
Fixing MultiTV SQL Errors After Upgrading an Older Evolution CMS Site
How to diagnose MultiTV SQL parse errors that appear after upgrading an older Evolution CMS installation.