I worked at it for hours and tried all the code changes in the Session object to no avail. I finally installed a fresh copy of magento locally and used their installer and I was able to log in. I noticed it was using the file system for sessions while the other existing site was using the database because it was being load balanced. I changed it to use the filesystem and that fixed the problem! Hope this will save somebody the many hours I spent on it.

In the Zend Studio interface it is possible to monitor how much Java heap space is used by the application. To do so, enable the option Show heap status in the Zend Studio Preferences by going to Window | Preferences | General (in MacOS X go to Zend Studio | Preferences | General). The heap status now appears in the application’s status bar. If you see that you quickly run out of memory (for example during a project build) you should consider increasing the default Java heap size. This can be done in the file ZendStudio.ini located in the Zend Studio installation path. Search for the –Xms and –Xmx parameters:

Xms – The initial amount of memory to allocate for Java heap space.
Xmx – The maximal amount of memory that is allowed to be used for Java heap space.

These values can be increased, but be aware that you are limited by the physical RAM of the system. Even for very complicated projects 512M Xms and 1024M Xmx should be enough.

$this->addElement('captcha', 'captcha', array(
	'label' => 'Please Type:',
	'required' => true,
	'captcha' => array(
		'pubkey' => RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY,
		'privkey' => RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY,
		'captcha' => 'reCaptcha'
	)
));

Be sure to change or set the defined variables for public and private keys provided to you with your recaptcha account. You don’t have to do anything to validate if the user entered the correct letters in your controller as Zend has already taken care of that part for you. As long as you’re using Zend’s isValid() method like so:

if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {

For example if you are working in C: drive and if you want to switch to E: drive just type ‘E:’ at command prompt and press ‘Enter‘.

load data LOCAL infile ‘/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop/standards.txt’ into table TABLE_NAME fields terminated by “\t” lines terminated by “\r”

var newArray = myArray.slice(0);
var newArray = myArray.concat([]);
var newArray = clone(myArray);

A popular answer using jQuery is the following:

var newArray = jQuery.extend(true, {}, myArray);

However, this solution will return an object and you cannot get the length of an object like you can an array.

To return an array, we change the curly braces to square brackets like so:

var newArray = jQuery.extend(true, [], myArray);

This is the solution that works.

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