Web Programming Answers

JoomlaPack Joomla Site Restore When Files are Too Large

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:09:54 +0000

The database sql file in a JoomlaPack JPA file is stored in installation/sql/joomla.sql.

The correct specs to upload large files into the Joomla LMS file library is .htaccess:
php_value upload_max_filesize 100M
php_value post_max_size 100M
php_value memory_limit 2048M
php_value max_execution_time 120

I gigantic Joomla sql file (205 MB) is possibly 135 MB jos_session. Don’t backup jos_session, or, edit it out using Jujusoft JuJuEdit, or split the sql file into pieces using splitter.exe, then piece back the pieces you do want.

How to Determine Home Page in Joomla index.php Template

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:28:22 +0000

getVar( ‘view’, ” );
if ( $pageoption == ‘frontpage’ ) { $home=true;}else{$home=false;}

WordPress Thesis Theme Head Element “Custom Function”

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:38:13 +0000

The reason you can’t find the custom function to add an element to the wordpress head area

is because that behavior is controlled by the Thesis Options web interface in wp-admin, not through the custom_functions.php hook.

Now stop looking for a hook and go to your wp-admin.

Use MySQL Update to Change All Values by a Percentage

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:01:28 +0000

update products set products_price = products_price + (products_price * .35)

Microsoft Word Hangs

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:56:38 +0000

If Microsoft Word 2003 (or 2007) hangs even after applying Windows Update, Windows Update for Office, changing out Normal.dot… it might be that the default printer is a networked printer that is not available. Change the default printer in the control panel to a non-networked, local printer (even if it’s a PDF file printer).

Thank you to:

http://glovario.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/microsoft-word-2007-2003-xp-application-hang-event-id-1000-1001-1002/

Coupon Code Websites for More eCommerce Exposure

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:25:50 +0000

Put your coupons on coupon sites. This gives you tremendous exposure to a new audience that is actually looking to shop. I have not verified that these services are all free to merchants, you’ll find out when you click the “signup” links.

Tailor each coupon name to the coupon site. Maybe use a 3 letter code to differentiate a Coupon Cabin coupon (CCB) from a RetailMeNot (RMN) coupon. Then when you view your coupon usage you’ll know which coupon sites brought you customers.

http://www.couponcabin.com/
http://www.retailmenot.com/
http://coupons2.smartsource.com
http://www.couponmountain.com
http://www.couponshare.com/
http://www.savings.com/
http://www.bradsdeals.com
http://www.addcoupon.com
http://www.flamingoworld.com/
http://www.promotionalcodes.com/
http://www.savester.net/
http://www.currentcodes.com/
http://www.couponchief.com
http://www.couponsurfer.com
http://www.dealcatcher.com/
http://www.couponcraze.com/
http://www.mycoupons.com/
http://www.keycode.com/

Joomla Programmer: Joomla 1.5 Sobi2 Clone for Windows

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:45:24 +0000

Joomla Programmer: Clone Sobi Using Windows

Sobi2 business index is a powerful database program for Joomla programmers and hobbyists. Recently I used Sobi2 to create a Pet Lost and Found database.Â This worked well but got confusing when I wanted to add an Adoptable Pets database. The tool provides one form with customizable fields, but some fields are not the same across Lost Pets and Adoptable Pets. I needed two forms. The only way to get that is to clone Sobi2.

Sigsiu wrote a Sobi2 cloning tool for Unix. Short of downloading cygwin, this tool doesn’t help Windows people.

Following, then, are instructions for how to clone the Sobi2 component for multiple installations using a Windows machine. The original forum post on Windows Cloning is here.

Unzip the com_sobi2 installation into a fresh directory com_sobi2. Copy that to the target directory, com_sobi2lost.

Using a bulk file renamer like File and MP3 renamer, rename all files in com_sobi2lost so that any instance of “sobi” is replaced with “sobilost.” You are editing file names in this step, not the contents of the files.

Using a grep search and replace tool like Actual Search & Replace:

Find all instances of “sobi” lowercase in com_sobi2lost contents. Change those instances to “sobilost”

Find all instances of “SOBI” uppercase in com_sobi2lost contents. Change those instances to “SOBILOST”

Edit the installation xml file sobilost2.xml

Find the administration/menu node.

Change the node’s value to a unique value such as Lost Animals

ZIP the com_sobi2lost directory to com_sobi2lost.zip

Install the com_sobi2lost.zip

The new description shows up as your menu item under components.

Joomla Programmer 1.5: chronoforms and mod_php automatic form submit to paypal

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:14:43 +0000

Joomla Programmer

Getting a chronoforms form submission land on a paypal page which then automatically submits to paypal.

Chronoforms form membership includes field mtype. mtype contains a donation value for paypal. Submit the chronoforms membership mype to mod_php paypal form. Fill in the mod_php paypal form amount field with the mtype value. Automatically submit the mod_php paypal form to paypal. Automatically return to a thank you page.

System cache settings must be off to garner $_POST['value']s. Otherwise you get cached values from previous submissions of chronoforms to mod_php.
Create the mod_php paypal form. Place it in user position “membership_dues”
create a content article, the text of which is: {loadposition membership_dues}
In a dummy menu, create an Article layout menu item pointing to the membership_dues content. In this example the resultant address is index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31
Chronoform membership form method must be POST. GET will screw up SEF links.
Set the chronoforms FORM URL submit URL to:

http://fulldomainhere/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31

Do NOT have a form target (the default is target=”paypal”) in mod_php paypal form. This creates a popup condition which is quietly suppressed by any browser with popup blocker. It looks like the form submit is not working. Test in IE to see a better error message than in Firefox:
Return the donator to your thank you page. Whether or not you tell PayPal to return a Post, it will return a GET. So create an HTML page for the return/thank you. If you put a Joomla page as the return, PayPal will send back garbage to index.php, and it will not redirect to the page you specify.
<input type=”hidden” name=”return” value=”http://fulldomainhere/thankyou.htm” />
Fill in the PayPal amount from the submitted form via a POST variable in mod_php paypal form.:

Amount $: value=”” style=”text-align:left;” />

Do NOT name the submit button “submit” in mod_php paypal form.Â It clashes with the javascript form submit.

name=”submitb” alt=”PayPal secure payments.” />

auto submit the mod_php paypal form

chronoforms membership application:

YourWebsite Membership Application

lots of other form values omitted for this example...
Membership Type 
Individual $15
Friend $25
Sponsor $50
Patron  $100
Benefactor  $500

mod_php paypal form is positioned at membership_dues user position and assigned to “all” menus


Thank You for Joining YourWebsite
Please complete your membership payment here













Amount $:

Fantastic Internet Explorer browser testing tool

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:53:45 +0000

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 RC1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”

Fantastic and bravo!

Joomla Programmer: Joomla 1.5 Control Menu Web Links Category Display Number Select Dropdown

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:08:20 +0000

Joomla Programmer

Removing Joomla 1.5 Web Link Category and Hit Counts

Joomla 1.5.9 leaves out a control parameter to avoid showing the “how many do you want to display” select dropdown when displaying a Web Link category.

To get rid of the Display # dropdown:

Go to components/com_weblink/category/tmpl/default_items.php

Remove

echo JText::_(’Display Num’) .’ ’;
echo $this->pagination->getLimitBox();

To get rid of the category counts:

Go to components/com_weblinks/views/category/tmpl/default.php

Remove

(numlinks;?>)

There’s also no way to remove the category counts from the Web Link category listing.

To remove the category counts:

In components/com_weblinks/views/categories/tmpl/default.php

Find

link; ?>” class=”categoryparams->get( ‘pageclass_sfx’ ); ?>”>
escape($category->title);?>

After that remove:

(numlinks;?>)

Even if you turn off hits in the menu item pointing to the Web Links the hits will display anyway. Perhaps due to cache, I’m not sure, the system ignores the Table Headings set to Hide parameter in the menu item pointing to the Web Link category.

To remove the table permanently (the administrator menu parameters will now not work at all though):

Go to Go to components/com_weblink/category/tmpl/default_items.php:

Find:

params->def( ’show_headings’, 1 ) ) : ?>

Change this to:

Find:

params->get( ’show_link_hits’ ) ) : ?>
Change this to: