qzminski Blog

Closed.

Kamil Kuzminski — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:00:25 +0000

Hey, today I finally decided to close this blog. That means it will be still online for some time, but the new posts won’t appear at all. There are many reasons of this decision. Besides opening a company, I decided to completely focus on the polish Contao website. I am also not in good relations [...]

Snippet: quickly switch between databases

Kamil Kuzminski — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:00:50 +0000

In one of my recent projects I had to get some data from the external database, in this case it was a Sugar CRM database. So I had to write a little function, which I will share with you now. First of all you need to define all external da

Pstbn.com – a pastebin driven by Contao

Kamil Kuzminski — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:00:19 +0000

As I have recently published the Contao function lookup tool, I decided to show you one project more. The idea is simple and I bet you have already know that. A pastebin is a tool that is usually used to share code snippets, either in a chat or f

Contao function lookup

Kamil Kuzminski — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:00:11 +0000

I have recently published a little script that allows you to check most popular functions in Contao. You can find it at the http://library.qzminski.com/. To use it, simply enter the function or tag you are looking for, then choose appropriate fun

Good habits while coding in Contao

Kamil Kuzminski — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:00:58 +0000

I want to dedicate this post to all Contao module developers, which are either novice or messy programmers. I have recently checked quite a number of extensions in the official repository, and it becomes a real challenge if you woud like to adjus

How to create a payment method in Isotope

Kamil Kuzminski — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:00:31 +0000

In this article, I will show you how to create a new payment method such as PayPal or PostFinance in the e-commerce for Contao - Isotope. As the example payment to adapt we will take Icepay. Recently I was requested by Vascom to develop this, and

Improving CD Collection module: backend wildcard & templates system

Kamil Kuzminski — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:30:30 +0000

Today I will present you how to improve our CD Collection module, by adding the templates system similar to one in the News module, and displaying a wildcard in the backend. Furthermore, we will add a selectable l

9 cool Contao built-in functions

Kamil Kuzminski — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:00:26 +0000

Beside methods that are provided by various parts of the system, Contao also offers several additional functions that may improve your developer work. They solve common problems like standardizing a string or scanning a directory for files and fo

Create a custom Contao module – part three (last)

Kamil Kuzminski — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:01:11 +0000

In the previous part of the tutorial we have created the Data Container Array for our module. Now when we got our backend section ready, we can create a frontend module that will display our collection on the website. We already have got C, U and

Create a custom Contao module – part two

Kamil Kuzminski — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:00:13 +0000

In this part of CD Collection module tutorial, I will show you how to create the most important part of our module - the Data Container Array. At a glance, it is a table configuration array, which tells Contao how to render module's back end for