Magento PDF Invoices not appearing…

…is that another bug with Magento? Surely not. Here is the apache error log:

Declaration of Zend_Pdf_FileParserDataSource_File::__construct() must be compatible with Zend_Pdf_FileParserDataSource::__construct() in /var/www/lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource/File.php on line 41

The solution is to change the constructor function of lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php

abstract public function __construct();

to

abstract public function __construct($filePath);

Again – this bug has been around since 2010. It’s 2012…

Magento php extensions 0 must be loaded

I’ve just been installing Magento (which for some reason is a real pain!). I got a really random error message when trying to setup the database. I get an error message just saying:

"php extensions 0 must be loaded"

You need to edit app/code/core/Mage/Install/etc/config.xml changing:

<extensions>
<pdo_mysql/>
</extensions>

to this:

<extensions>
<pdo_mysql>

Given that this bug has been around since for about 3 years – surely Magento can fix it?