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Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme template
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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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Prices get rounded up in Virtuemart
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Prices get rounded up in Virtuemart

This happened to a m8s website in VirtueMart 1.1.3. The issue here was that although all the prices lost their float/decimal and were rounded up to the nearest integer... At first we thought this was due to installing a Virtuemart UK Credit Card Payment Module (vm-ukcreditcard). A lot of forums were suggesting to chang...

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Keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Google Chrome
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Keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Google Chrome

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts are combinations of keyboard strokes and mouse clicks that you can use to perform specific actions. Knowing some of the Google Chrome shortcuts listed below can help save you time.

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Migrate MediaWiki to another server
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Migrate MediaWiki to another server

Old Server mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql tar -cvf wiki.tar wiki ;this is the wiki folder on document root New Server: create database wikidb; this is inside mysql, Note that both mysql versions should be same. grant create, select, insert, update, delete, lock tables on wikidb.* to wiki@localhost identified...

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Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versa
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Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versa

The Issue If you've ever made PHP scripts to process data within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then this happens a lot. In the following example, our HTML form will allow the user to specify a date (so excludes hours, minutes and seconds). For demonstration purposes, I'm going to be using the European...

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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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How to make a HTML form post its variables to itself
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How to make a HTML form post its variables to itself

The Issue You have a PHP page which generates a HTML form. When the user submits the form, you want the same PHP page to process the data. Solution I've seen a lot of people write CGI requests but if you left the action attribute blank, this would do the same thing: <form method="post" action=""> ...

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Add the website name to the page title in Joomla!
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Add the website name to the page title in Joomla!

Change Page Title in WebsiteHere are some instructions on changing the page title in Joomla! CMS to display both the actual page title and other stuff. As I like doing this for this particular website (my personal one) in every version of Joomla it's been upgraded to, I've noticed some differences that I've noted down...

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