Quick Tip: Move Products Inside a Category in Prestashop 1.5

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:39 Written by Fabio Porta Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:00

It seems that some people can’t find a way to order products in Prestashop Categories. Let’s see how to display movement arrows in the back office!

If you are a Prestashop 1.4 user, now approaching to 1.5, you might have noticed those little arrows you used to move products are not there anymore, where they used to be. This is because products and categories now have 2 different interfaces in the back office. So, how to move products within a category? Well, there is a hidden catch: you must first filter the product list by category. In short terms, here is what you have to do:

How to Encrypt Data Inside a web.config

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 09:32 Written by David Bauernschmidt Sunday, 11 November 2012 12:00

Several weeks ago I was offered an opportunity to write articles for Arvixe. This is not only an exciting offer because of the vast number of people that will read it, but also because Arvixe is a great company. Their support has been impeccable and their desire to help has far exceeded my thoughts. (This is not because my thoughts are low).

My goal in writing articles is to provide an avenue that other developers can come to experience Arvixe in the way I am. Most of my how to articles will be around the Arvixe asp.net platform but most can be adjusted to accommodate other hosting providers. The great thing about development is that there are many ways to accomplish the same task.

Someone once asked me this question, “David, what is the best way to implement {fill in the blank}”. To which my response was, “Yes”. As you read my articles if you have a different way than just drop me a note. After all this is how we learn. So here goes the first one……

Before we get to the specific example, let me say, that Googling, Yahooing, Binging (is that a word?) will return many options so this not the only one, it is the one that I find is the most versatile. It can be used for many things.

Warning: Naming Folders Inside the Mod Folder in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 April 2012 09:21 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:00

In this quick article, I will give a recommendation when you name or rename a folder inside the mod folder in Elgg 1.8

The Mod folder in Elgg is where you upload plugins or themes for Elgg. I was developing a plugin for Elgg when I had to rename a folder, for testing purposes. I typed just numbers like I regularly do in my desktop computer. For my surprise, it seems like Elgg doesn’t like folders to be named only with numbers.

I didn’t realized that until I saw this screen while I tried to access the Plugins page inside the Administration Dashboard: