php

<?php
/**
 * Get Magento root category ids
 */

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");

require './app/Mage.php';
Mage::app('admin')->setUseSessionInUrl(false);
Mage::getConfig()->init();


$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$tree = $category->getTreeModel();
$tree->load();

$ids = $tree->getCollection()->getAllIds();
$categories = array();
$rootCategories=array();
if (isset($ids)) {
    foreach ($ids as $id) {
        $category->load($id);
        $categories[$id]['name'] = $category->getName();

Create a rawTableName method in the model like this:

	/**
	 * @return string the associated database raw table name
	 */
	public function rawTableName($full = true) {
		return $full?str_replace('`', '', $this->tableSchema->rawName) : preg_replace('#[^a-z_]#i','',$this->tableName());
	}

And in the view you can use this:

<?php
print 'Model table name: '.$model->rawTableName(false);
?>

or

<?php
print 'Model table name: '.$model->rawTableName();
?>

Hi, if we have an array and inside each value of this array we have another array with age and name for example, and we want to sort the first array by the name of each value in the child arrays we do is using usort  and strcmp functions from php.

Here is an example:

How to highlight keywords using php:

This techniques and examples come in handy anytime for any coder and as soon as you start using them you already start to save time too.

Conditional and action:

<?php
$a && print $a; // outputs $a if $a is true

Initiate an object from an array:

<?php
$object = (object) array ('user1' => 'Franz', 'superuser' => 'ZeusCool');
echo $object->superuser; // prints out ZeusCool

Example of a shopping cart implementation of shorthand operator:

Example of using multidimensional array forms:

How to remove jQuery Drupal settings

In your template.php file from your theme implement hook_alter_js() as in the example below:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_js_alter().
 */
function marianzburlea_js_alter (&$js) {
  unset($js['settings']);
}