This morning http://buyarug.co.uk, a Magento site that we operate, was showing a white screen of death. Checking the apache error log revealed the following error:
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getDir() on a non-object in /DOCUMENT_ROOT/app/Mage.php on line 328
After some investigation the problem proved to be intermittent and caused a white screen when requesting a page, yet hitting refresh the page would load, then it would break again and so on.
Open source software has grown massively over the last decade. It is fast replacing proprietary commercial stalwarts, powering the sites for Nike, Harvey Nichols, and Barack Obama. However, many people still have their reservations about the potential 'unknowns'. Is open source the way forward?
Or, how there's a lot more work in producing an e-commerce site properly than you might think.
We've just finished testing our new custom module for Magento that allows developers to do A/B or multiple variant testing of all the pages within a site - it'll be going live for one of clients tonight. With Magento growing in popularity as a way to deliver high end e-commerce solutions A/B testing is going from being a nice to have to an essential for those serious about site development.
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