I have 2 domains, one for the corporate website and one for the store. The corporate website will have its own template and catalogue of products but with a “Email for Quote” or something along those lines. The store website will be.. well, a fucking store.

So first you create the stores along with the store views (Magento backend -> System-> Manage Stores), then you go in the configuration page and set up the store view scopes so that each base url is set to the appropriate domain (General->Web). You should also set “Add Store Code to URLS” and “Auto-Redirect to Base URL” to Yes on a global scope.

Hopefully at this point you already have each domain pointing to the store(if not you should have 404′s all over the fucking place)

Now comes editing the index.php of the magento store! This is where the fun starts and where you’ll start hating upgrading the magento installation

Find the index.php of the main magento installation.

Somewhere at the bottom you should find somethign like this:

/* Store or website code */
$mageRunCode = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE'] : '';

/* Run store or run website */

$mageRunType = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE'] : 'store';

and after it there should be something like this:

Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

so in between put something like this:

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) {
	case 'corporate.com':
        case 'www.corporate.com':
        case 'http://corporate.com':
	case 'http://www.corporate.com':
		$mageRunCode = 'corp';
		$mageRunType = 'store';
	break;
	case 'store.com':
        case 'www.store.com':
        case 'http://store.com':
	case 'http://www.store.com':
		$mageRunCode = 'store';
		$mageRunType = 'store';
	break;
}

Obviously you need to modify this to your domains and store codes(which you entered in the manage stores part)

Exception occurred creating type 
'Infragistics.Win.UltraWinTabbedMdi.UltraTabbedMdiManager, 
Infragistics2.Win.UltraWinTabbedMdi.v6.3, Version=6.3.20063.53,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=7dd5c3163f2cd0cb'
System.ComponentModel.LicenseException: No license information found

At the same time, infragistics likes giving you random unexpected reverse-happy endings. I’ve been greeted with this specific error around 3 times now. Nothing different from what I was doing earlier, just booting up the pc, open visual studio, write some letters in different colors and press run.

The solution!

Something more weird than the random error is the solution to the error. The error shouts at you that it cant find the license information BUT the solution is to find the license.licx in the solution explorer and remove all its content! I have no idea how this works..but it works

Have you ever tried to use them on magento? For some reason if a product is marked as Out of stock, backorders are disabled which kind of defeat the point and my hope for mankind. I guess a workaround for this would be to make the configuration in the backend to set the products to always be in stock even under the quantity of 0, but that then messes with the product alert notices which allow the user to be sent an email when the product is back in stock since they only work when the product is actually out of stock.

So that leaves me with the option of screwing magento over by screwing his wife, err.. the template. Just skip the Is in Stock validation and check yourself with quantity and if backorders are enabled.

Here’s enough code to make you do something:

$_product = $this->getProduct();
$_stockItem = Mage::getModel('cataloginventory/stock_item')->loadByProduct($_product);
$_qty = (int)$_stockItem->getQty();
$_backorder = (int)$_stockItem->getBackorders();
if ($_qty > 0 ) {
	echo("In Stock");
}
elseif($_qty <= 0 & $_backorder = 0){
	echo("out Of Stock");
}

Aaanyway, after spamming the magento forums like a hoe, I found out that a certain phtml file was making use of the php function: nl2br() and this is the part where I stared at the screen with a disappointed ”fuck you” face.

So here’s the fix, my problem was with the description field of the product page so you’ll have to look for the file accordingly.

The phtml file you want to edit is usually found around here:
MagentoInstallation/app/design/YOURTHEME/default/template/catalog/product/view/description.phtml

BUT some extensions you download could override this, for example the quite awesome EasyTabs extension has its own description.phtml file located(assuming you’ve configured it correctly for your theme:
/app/design/YOURTHEME/default/template/easytabs/description.phtml

All you have to do is search for the nl2br(morecodehereprobablyavariable) and just replace it with the content of the brackets.