Resonance & Dissonance

Yes indeed, the weekend’s over and I’ve “almost” finished everything I wanted to do with vQmod.  I’ve made about a dozen vQmod input files and just have one bug to track down.

Turns out it’s pretty easy to clone a set of input files for a new theme, but then again that is where my one bug is 🙂  But it’s not a vQmod issue, it’s just finding out where the gift voucher logic resurfaced in the shoppica theme so I can remove it.

Coming back to my OpenCart project, I decided I wanted a way to preserve the changes I’d made to the code across upgrades and patches. Fortunantly the OpenCart community has a tool for that. vQmod is a preprocessor that modifies the base PHP files.  The basic idea is that you make an xml file that contains your edits.

After spending a few hours getting it to remove the unwanted returns feature, I’ve decided that it works but it might have been quicker to just write a simple script to make the changes.

The biggest problem is that my xml editors seem to want to mangle the text.  Replacing a “<” with &lt; is really unnecessary!

But it does open up the possibility of selling the mod’s if there’s enough people who would want them.  (I think I’ve been around my son too long, everything seems to have a monetization angle now!)

Once I get a few done, I’ll start posting them.