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Add default to a picture button
AutoHotkey

Add default to a picture button

Well there's a lot of autohotkey sites saying that you can apply a transparency and then capture special mouse events to emulate the mouseover and mouseout effects of a button with an image as a background. I couldn't get any of these working and they looked more confusing then anything else. My solution is to set up t...

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Community Builder in Joomla Vulnerability
Joomla

Community Builder in Joomla Vulnerability

Malware Detected! Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at .....ru appears to host malware - software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just viisting a site that hosts malware can infect your computer. For detailed information about the problems with this s...

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On Gui Resize Event
AutoHotkey

On Gui Resize Event

Thought I'd put this down as it took me ages to search the Internet for this solution. In the end, I found it hidden away in the Autohotkey help file and not under the gui events... The issue here is if you want to do something when a user resizes your program. If you search and search, you'll find that GuiClose respon...

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Clicking on a weblink returns a 404 error
Joomla

Clicking on a weblink returns a 404 error

If you are in the administration panel and you are editing your weblinks and you come across this error: "404 - An error has occurred. Joomla! was unable to locate the stated resource."

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Splatter Logo
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Splatter Logo

I saw this article and rather than bookmark it I thought I could just have it here for easy reference. It was written for Photoshop but I use Paint Shop Pro and felt I could do the same. It's just so complicated in Photoshop when web-developers need to be able to run several programs at the same time and simplicity is...

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Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme template
Joomla

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme template

"OK this should take just a few minutes..." I've written this because I spent all night on setting up a "quick" demo resulting in a quick 1 hour nap before having to go to my day job... It sounds straight forward because both phpBB3 and RocketTheme talk about how to install the RocketTheme templates... But it's not. I'...

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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file
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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file

The Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. <input type="file" name="file_to_upload" />) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:

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Setting a rocket theme background to fixed
Joomla

Setting a rocket theme background to fixed

You can probably find this information of the rocket theme forum but I thought I'd put how I resolved this here. The issue is basically that you want the background to stay in its position in the browser while the rest of the elements scroll about. Go to Extensions -> Template Manager> Edit the CSS for the template You...

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Advanced RokStories Styling
Joomla

Advanced RokStories Styling

RokStories has been overhauled to provide the spectacular display that you see on this demo. The module adapts depending on your image size, so no need to manually create rounded corners on your images, RokStories will do the rest.The custom features are also available in the standalone version.

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