htaccess Rewrites SEF URL and submits to PHPhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/htaccess-rewrites-sef-url-and-submits-to-php.html

05 September 2013 Anything not ending in ".html" will simply return a 404 error. I've included my error rules (they basically redirect to a branded error page). So I sanitize on the receiving index.php file: Check for possible Code Injection Do NOT allow the use of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Increment a column in MySQL using the UPDATE queryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/increment-a-column-in-mysql-using-the-update-query.html

18 February 2010 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'...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html

08 April 2014 top rows of the dataset. Why? A lot of articles out there on the net are offering solutions that do the exact opposite. Basically, I want the opposite result of "Fixed headers while scrolling". How? Once I figured out why I had a scrolling issue, the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

List of Font Awesomehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/list-of-font-awesome.html

04 September 2015 who want icons that can be any size of any color without compromising on image quality or overhead maintenance. It's basically a font set that has all the icons you would want in a modern website design. How? To use this list, you can either: Copy the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

Windows 7 and Google Chrome incognito mode by defaulthttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/windows-7-and-google-chrome-incognito-mode-by-default.html

24 March 2010 Basically if you've just started using "incognito" mode with the Google Chrome web-browser, this article is just how to switch the quick launch shortcut (next to your start button). All the articles I googled were windows vista so I thought I'd share...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• Language: en-GB

How to make your Joomla site use SEO friendly urlshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/how-to-make-your-joomla-site-use-seo-friendly-urls.html

02 April 2010 Basically so that you can set all those SEO settings in the global configuration tab to YES. Note: you need the permissions to rename the file ("htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" in your website root folder). You'll need ftp access or a file manager with...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Change Regional Settings for your Reporthttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/change-regional-settings-for-your-report.html

17 May 2010 Basically I thought that the regional settings of a report generated using Report Builder 2.0 on a MS SQL Server 2008 instance were dependent on either the server or the client machine. Realised that this was actually specified in the report. Here's a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Invalid arguments passed in router.php on line 325https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/invalid-arguments-passed-in-routerphp-on-line-325.html

03 August 2010 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...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Comparing two mediawiki siteshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/comparing-two-mediawiki-sites.html

17 September 2010 Checking both MediaWiki have the same article content: Print Special:AllPages from both sites and do an eye-check (I basically highlighted articles found in one but not the other - we had over 2000 articles... I guess I'm a bit geekly like that) This...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MediaWiki
• Language: en-GB

Mootools - How to contain a menu sidebar between header and footerhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/mootools-how-to-contain-a-menu-sidebar-between-header-and-footer.html

10 August 2012 too much so I decided to work out my own. The complexity is due to content also being dynamically resized in height. What? Basically I have a menu in a sidebar, I don't want it to overlap the header nor the footer.I have a content page next to it which...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• Language: en-GB

Link to a Joomla article from within another articlehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/link-to-a-joomla-article-from-within-another-article.html

04 December 2012 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 to Joomla v1.5.x when the option and id parameters would suffice: - SEF URL...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Two icons created on Androidhttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/two-icons-created-on-android.html

20 October 2014 forget this one but I was stumped for a bit until I found it on the a forum: Stack Overflow: Android App Development. How? Basically don't have the following declared more than once in the AndroidManifest.xml

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AndroidOS
• Language: *