There is possibly also a very non-obvious reason why your admin interface is very slow. Magento has a module named Mage_AdminNotification. Try to disable that ext. Because what it does is query magentocommerce.com for new update messages. If their servers are slow your admin page waits and is in effect slow because of the network lag and loading of the external news. If you have secured your outgoing server connection through a firewall this can be even more frustrating, since the admin interface will wait for the timeout when it cannot reach magentocommerce.com

To disable it: go to System -> Configuration, scroll to the bottom and hit Advanced(in the Advanced section). Now disable Mage_AdminNotification and save!

Try to use 2 alternatives way:

Set finish(); with use of current context
Set setResult(Activity.RESULT.CANCELLED);

I have checked my PHP init file (php.ini) and display errors is set and also error reporting is E_ALL. I have restarted my Apache web server.

I have even put these lines at the top of my script, and it doesn’t even catch simple parse errors. For example, I declare variables with a “$” and I don’t close statements”;”. But all my scripts show a blank page on these errors, but I want to actually see the errors in my browser output.

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1);
What is left to do?

‘ Single quoted
The simplest way to specify a string is to enclose it in single quotes. Single quote is generally faster, and everything quoted inside treated as plain string.

Example:

echo ‘Start with a simple string’;
echo ‘String\’s apostrophe’;
echo ‘String with a php variable’.$name;
” Double quoted
Use double quotes in PHP to avoid having to use the period to separate code (Note: Use curly braces {} to include variables if you do not want to use concatenation (.) operator) in string.

Example:

echo “Start with a simple string”;
echo “String’s apostrophe”;
echo “String with a php variable {$name}”;
Is there a performance benefit single quote vs double quote in PHP?
Yes. It is slightly faster to use single quotes.

PHP won’t use additional processing to interpret what is inside the single quote. when you use double quotes PHP has to parse to check if there are any variables within the string

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Is there a simple way to convert one date format into another date format in PHP?

I have this:

$old_date = date(‘y-m-d-h-i-s’); // works

$middle = strtotime($old_date); // returns bool(false)

$new_date = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, $middle); // returns 1970-01-01 00:00:00
But I’d of course like it to return a current date rather than the crack ‘o dawn. What am I doing wrong?