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Update June 2013 - How to use this migration script: Make a backup copy of your old Joomla website (1.5.x) Download and install the latest Joomla CMS Go through the Joomla Web-based Installation GUI until the process deletes the Installation folder. Avoid installing Sample Data if possible (there will be some but this...
Basically, I've started using so much more SQL in our new Business Intelligence projects that I've been revising all my scripts to see what SQL I can optimize. One of my systems is a MediaWiki CMS which is used for the official Bournemouth University Knowledge Base. The skin itself is the index page loaded for any page...
The scenario is that I wanted a PHP/MySQL extension created which needs to launch a query to find all columns across the tables of the local database which had valid content to extract keywords from. The following is a MYSQL query that displays the structure of all the columns in all the databases of the localhost: SEL...
This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters. The Joomla! articles were displaying the corr...
Quick tip or note to self: How to get yesterday's date irrespective of date format or daylight savings time. $today=date("Y-m-d"); $yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));
As usual I have searched the WWW but I obviously don't how to use Google because I couldn't find an answer. My situation is this: We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14. Some articles are available for public, some are restricted to staff and different localgroups. When users click on the...
Basically you've woken up this morning, visited your website, and all your K2 articles are gone !!!! If you login to your Joomla! administration panel (back-end) and look under k2 items, you should get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/public_html/administrator/components/co...
Thought I'd put this error in here and how I fixed it. Basically because firstly I don't want to have to create an account on someone else's forum just to post my answer and secondly because my solution is a "cowboy fix" rather than the other intelligent solutions on the web. The issue was that I was building my first...
I don't usually write an article on another site but I came across it and rather than just add it to my weblinks section, I thought I'd give it a little more credit. "Motive is a web design and development agency based in Wellington, New Zealand providing consultation, website design, development and usability evaluati...
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