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While urgently patching dozens of Magento Commerce installations for the latest security alert, I needed a quick way to determine the version without logging into the admin.

I found the answer in a note on the bottom of this wiki page:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/check_magento_version

Just open app/Mage.php and look for the getVersionInfo() function. You’ll see something like this:

Here’s a Perl one liner to extract the version:

Thanks to Peteris Krumins for a great blog full of Perl one-liners. The one above
was derived from this article:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-one-liners-explained-part-six/

BTW … here’s the security alert:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/important-security-update-zend-platform-vulnerability/

If you’ve not already patched then you should really get it done right away or contact Reliable Penguin for assistance.

Here are some useful notes for upgrading Magento:

• Before starting the upgrade, block all access to the site by turning on password protection. It is critical that only one browser execute the database upgrade.
• Next make a full backup of all files and the database. If the upgrade fails you’ll need these to restore.
• Using the command line seems to give the most stable results. Here’s a great article that shows the command line upgrade process:
  http://blog.nexcess.net/2011/03/11/upgrading-to-magento-1-5-0-1/
• In the above instructions, if Step 2 fails then try running:
  
  ./pear pear-setup .

  1	./pear pear-setup .

  Then try Step 2 again.

• After the upgrade you’ll need to rebuild indexes and clear caches before products will display.
• If you get an exception like this:
  PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in ...

  1	PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in ...

  Then use the fix described here:

  http://screencastworld.com/2010/07/magento/how-to-fix/php-fatal-error-call-to-a-member-function-tohtml-on-a-non-object-in-layout-php-on-line-529
  

• If you get an exception like this:
  Invalid method Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar::isLastPage...

  1	Invalid method Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar::isLastPage...

  Then follow these steps:

  1. Create folder at app/code/local/Mage/Core/Block/
  2. Copy app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php to app/code/local/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php
  3. Edit app/code/local/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php and paste this code:
     
     public function isLastPage() { return $this->getCollection()->getCurPage() >= $this->getLastPageNum(); }

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     public function isLastPage()     {         return $this->getCollection()->getCurPage() >= $this->getLastPageNum();     }

     
     directly after this existing code:
     public function getCacheKeyInfo() { return array( 'BLOCK_TPL', Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode(), $this->getTemplateFile(), 'template' => $this->getTemplate() ); }

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     public function getCacheKeyInfo()     {         return array(             'BLOCK_TPL',             Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode(),             $this->getTemplateFile(),             'template' => $this->getTemplate()         );     }

  This fix comes from here:

  http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/201998/

• Sometimes pagination will be lost from categories that span multiple pages. This can be fixed with the following steps:
  1. Edit app/design/frontend/default/modern/layout/catalog.xml
  2. Add this line:
     
     <block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/>

     1	<block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/>

     
     after this line:
     
     <block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

     1	<block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

     
     in the “Catalog default layout” section. Also add the same line after:
     
     &ltp;block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

     1	&ltp;block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

     
     in the “Category layer navigation layout” section.
  3. Edit app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml
  4. Remove these lines:
     <?php if($this->getLastPageNum()>1): ?> <td class="pages"> <strong><?php echo $this->__('Page:') ?></strong> <ol> <?php if (!$this->isFirstPage()): ?> <li> <a href="<?php echo $this->getPreviousPageUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_left.gif') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Previous') ?>" /></a> </li> <?php endif ?> <?php foreach ($this->getPages() as $_page): ?> <?php if ($this->isPageCurrent($_page)): ?> <li><span class="on"><?php echo $_page ?></span></li> <?php else: ?> <li><a href="<?php echo $this->getPageUrl($_page) ?>"><?php echo $_page ?></a></li> <?php endif ?> <?php endforeach;; ?> <?php if (!$this->isLastPage()): ?> <li> <a href="<?php echo $this->getNextPageUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_right.gif') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Next') ?>" /></a> </li> <?php endif ?> </ol> </td> <?php endif; ?>

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     <?php if($this->getLastPageNum()>1): ?> <td class="pages">    <strong><?php echo $this->__('Page:') ?></strong>    <ol>       <?php if (!$this->isFirstPage()): ?>          <li>             <a href="<?php echo $this->getPreviousPageUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_left.gif') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Previous') ?>" /></a>          </li>       <?php endif ?>       <?php foreach ($this->getPages() as $_page): ?>          <?php if ($this->isPageCurrent($_page)): ?>             <li><span class="on"><?php echo $_page ?></span></li>             <?php else: ?>             <li><a href="<?php echo $this->getPageUrl($_page) ?>"><?php echo $_page ?></a></li>          <?php endif ?>       <?php endforeach;; ?>       <?php if (!$this->isLastPage()): ?>          <li>             <a href="<?php echo $this->getNextPageUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_right.gif') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Next') ?>" /></a>          </li>       <?php endif ?>    </ol> </td> <?php endif; ?>

     And replace with this line:

     <?php echo $this->getPagerHtml() ?>

     1	<?php echo $this->getPagerHtml() ?>

  5. Next edit skin/frontend/default/modern/css/boxes.css.
  6. Change the “table.pager td” definition around line 443 to:
     
     table.pager td { width:53%; border-top:1px solid #ddd; padding:4px 8px; vertical-align:middle; }

     1	table.pager td { width:53%; border-top:1px solid #ddd; padding:4px 8px; vertical-align:middle; }

  7. After the following lines around line 450:
     
     table.pager td.sort-by .active:hover { color:#444; }

     1	table.pager td.sort-by .active:hover { color:#444; }

     
     Add these lines:
     
     table.pager td td{ width:57%; border-top:none; padding:0px; vertical-align:none; } table.pager td td.a-right{ width:auto; }

     1 2	table.pager td td{ width:57%; border-top:none; padding:0px; vertical-align:none; } table.pager td td.a-right{ width:auto; }

  8. Locate the “.a-right” definition around line 1447 and change to:
     
     .a-right { text-align:right !important; width:19% !important;}

     1	.a-right        { text-align:right !important; width:19% !important;}

  Note that the CSS changes in steps 5 to 8 may vary between sites and different layouts.

• The Credit Card checkout method may be broken due to a missing javascript file reference. The symptom is that the Continue button on step file does nothing. The fix is to edit the layout/page.xml file for your theme at app/design/frontend/default/[YourThemeName]/layout/page.xml and add the following line in two places:
  <action method="addJs"><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

  1	<action  method="addJs"><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

  Full details can be found in this article:

  http://www.magthemes.com/magento-blog/checkout-does-not-work-with-credit-card-payment-method-in-magento-1-4-1-0/

  Don’t forget to flush the JavaScript/CSS Cache after making these changes.

• While the database upgrade is running, if you get an exception like this:
  Invalid mode for clean() method

  1	Invalid mode for clean() method

  Then you’ll need to manually clear the caches like this:

  rm -rf var/session/* rm -rf var/cache/* rm -rf app/code/core/Zend/Cache/*

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  rm -rf var/session/* rm -rf var/cache/* rm -rf app/code/core/Zend/Cache/*

  The same fix applies if you get an exception like:

  Mage registry key "_resource_helper/core" already exists

  1	Mage registry key "_resource_helper/core" already exists

• If you get SQL integrity constrain violation errors similar to this:
  Error in file: "/var/www/vhosts/shop.burgerlounge.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/ Customer/sql/customer_setup/mysql4-upgrade-1.5.9.9-1.6.0.0.php" - SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry '0-1' for key 2

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  Error in file: "/var/www/vhosts/shop.burgerlounge.com/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/ Customer/sql/customer_setup/mysql4-upgrade-1.5.9.9-1.6.0.0.php" - SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry '0-1' for key 2

  Then first try to Google and find a solution. As a last resort edit app/etc/config.xml and change:

  <initStatements>SET NAMES utf8</initStatements>

  1	<initStatements>SET NAMES utf8</initStatements>

  to:

  <initStatements>SET NAMES utf8;SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=0;</initStatements>

  1	<initStatements>SET NAMES utf8;SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=0;</initStatements>

  This will disable integrity checking. Make sure you remove this change after the upgrade has been completed.

• Sometimes in an old theme you’ll see where the developer hacked an addJs2 function into app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php and then put something like:
  <action method="addJs2"><script>js/jquery.cookie.js</script></action>

  1	<action method="addJs2"><script>js/jquery.cookie.js</script></action>

  into the page.xml layout.

  To fix this change the page.xml code to:

  <action method="addItem"><type>skin_js</type><name>js/jquery.cookie.js</name></action>

  1	<action method="addItem"><type>skin_js</type><name>js/jquery.cookie.js</name></action>

• In older versions you could do this in a template:
  $childCat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($child);

  1	$childCat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($child);

  For newer versions do this instead:

  $childCat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($child->getId());

  1	$childCat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($child->getId());