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I was asked "... how do you find out where the positions are, like USER 1 and TAB 4 etc..." To open a web-browser window or tab with this preview, type the following in the address bar after your website URL: http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php?tp=1&template=thetemplatename where yourdomainname.com is your domain a...
Ok is it just me who does everything slowly and badly until someone comes along and says why are you doing it like that? My justification is that the job has to be done no matter what. If you've ever sat there with phpMyAdmin or a MySQL Administration Tool (like Navicat or SQLYog), and still there at night editing each...
Suppose you have a column in your table that you use as a counter (storing the value of the counter - eg. times an article has been displayed). Basically what I used to do is something similar to the following: SELECT counter_field_value FROM table1 WHERE column1='this_article' Add 1 to counter_field_value UPDATE table...
I've decided to put something in here as it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve data from a table, count the...
I'm beginning a list as I've just spent an age trying to get PHP output to create a text file. Then my client showed me how she then opens the text file in Excel, so I said we could get the script to do that instead.PHP to TXT header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; f...
Are you getting a lot of spam, or junk messages sent via your Joomla site? I know certain components of Joomla let you put banned words but I know of even more that don't. If you find all your forms need extra plugins and captchas (such as JezRecaptcha), then the website security isn't amazing. I used to have Captcha o...
After I installed the rokstories module from www.rockettheme.com, if I clicked on one of the articles (rokstory), I would get a page with the article on it but with the following error (3x) above it: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.../components/com_content/helpers/route.php on line 106 After...
It took a few google searches until I could find out how to change the default weblinks order. A lot of websites showed how to do this via the admin back-end panel in the advanced configuration... I can't see this panel, there is no advanced parameters under a weblinks category. The issue is that suppose a menuitem lin...
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