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Joes Youtube Player (JYP)
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Joes Youtube Player (JYP)

Installation Install this plugin using your Joomla Admin Panel Go to Extension Manager > Search for "Joes Youtube Player". Enable and Save. Screenshots

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Setup a copy of your Joomla website
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Setup a copy of your Joomla website

More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They experiment on their customer-facing website and in most cases, they are pay...

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Joes Revolver Map (JRM)
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Joes Revolver Map (JRM)

Joes Revolver Map was Joel Lipman's first Joomla module. It displayed a 3D visitor globe using a map ID selected by the site owner.

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Link to a Joomla article from within another article
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Link to a Joomla article from within another article

Quick article here as googling/binging for how to refer to Joomla articles after versions 1.5.x wasn't obvious. This article is to demonstrate how to write the webaddress for a Joomla article even when you have Search-engine-friendly website addresses enabled. How? Basically you have to include &view=article as opposed...

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Warning call_user_func: First argument is expected to be a valid callback
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Warning call_user_func: First argument is expected to be a valid callback

If you get something like the following error: Warning: call_user_func() [function.call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home/.../templates/rt_affinity/rt_sectionrows.php on line 311 How? Copy & backup the file /public_html/.../templates/rt_affinity/rt_sectionrows.php Find the following...

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Joomla article modal with clear button
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Joomla article modal with clear button

This is an article to describe how to add an article modal button in the Joomla Admin Panel (at time of print version 2.5.6) of your component including the all important clear button. What I found was that no one posted this solution which I found is compatible with almost any site and with all my components without h...

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Basic Joomla 2.5 Mootools Form
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Basic Joomla 2.5 Mootools Form

This is an article to demo the crudest form which uses Joomla's version 2.5 core mootools (uncompressed?). This is intended for absolute novices (like me) who just want to see an example of an AJAX form within Joomla 1.6.x - 2.5.x in it's most basic state. At time of print, I am using this with Joomla 2.5.6.

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