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  1. Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

    typed/sounding words. How? Here's just a splurge of SQL but I use this often enough: UPDATE `myTable` t SET t.`myColumn`=REPLACE(t.`myColumn`, 'À', 'A'); UPDATE `myTable` t SET t.`myColumn`=REPLACE(t.`myColumn`, 'Á', 'A'); UPDATE `myTable` t SET...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  2. PHP & MySQL Search Enginehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-a-mysql-search-engine.html

    to split up search terms and accepting double-quotes as phrase makers. function search_transform_term($term){ $term = preg_replace("/(\s)/e", "'{WHITESPACE-'.ord('\$1').'}'", $term); $term = preg_replace("/,/", "{COMMA}", $term); return $term; }...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Preg_Replace all strings between two tagshttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/preg-replace-all-strings-between-two-tags.html

    For those of you who use Preg_Replace. Preg_replace is a function that uses regular expressions to search and replace a string. Why? Because my understanding with regular expressions is shady and varies from language to language, I've written this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  4. Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

    -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Help on using the queries below -- -- 1. replace all database names in the scripts below -- -- 2. checking before you commit changes -- II. Copy content from the old database to the new database and tweak: -- -- 1. setting...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  5. MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

    WHERE WEEKDAY(s.DateTimeCreated)=0 AND YEARWEEK(s.DateTimeCreated)=YEARWEEK(NOW()) - $w_value AND s.StaffUserID='STRING_TO_REPLACE_PER_ITERATION' ) AS 'Monday', ( SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(s.EstimateTimeFinish)-TIME_TO_SEC(s.DateTimeCreated)))...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  6. T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

    I now need to add an actual row separating the different days which is either blank or full of hyphens/dashes. Stage #2: Replace values in last data row with blanks The trick to this is to get Stage #1 working for you with your query and then for every...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Quickly update all content in mySQL database replacing a stringhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/quickly-update-all-content-replacing-a-string.html

    This is an article on how to replace a string with another in all your joomla articles without modifying other data such as modified date and author. Why? I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags with . Not I want to switch...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  8. Trim in T-SQL and SSIShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/trim-in-t-sql-and-ssis.html

    of removing trailing spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds (new lines). How? First in Transact-SQL: SELECT RTRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( @myString, CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '') ) -- CHAR(9) = Tab -- CHAR(10) = Line Feed --...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

    in the database. If you only have the -- ones from an Out-of-the-box Joomla! CMS then this is what I use: -- -- Copy and replace the below script per category -- -- this example is for one "uncategorized content" category --...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Zoho Deluge: Handle Commas between Quotes in a CSV (and New Lines)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-handle-commas-between-quotes-in-a-csv.html

    Deluge to parse the data in the appropriate columns was not working as expected. How? The quick answer is a regex that will replace any commas between two quotes with a custom string, to be exact: v_FormattedData =...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho
    • Language: *
  11. Android: Replace return key with done, go, send...https://joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-replace-return-key-with-done-go-send.html

    A quick article on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device. Why? I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't understand...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AndroidOS
    • Language: *
  12. Search and Replace in a MySQL Databasehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/search-and-replace-in-a-mysql-database.html

    me. Found it a bit boring but here's a short bit of code to speed it up which I now use: update table_name set field_name=REPLACE(field_name,'string_to_find','string_to_replace'); Source:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Improve Default Joomla Search https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/improve-default-joomla-search-heuristics.html

    = strtolower(trim($db->Quote($db->escape($text, true), false))); $query->select(' (1000*((LENGTH(TRIM(a.title)) - LENGTH(REPLACE(LOWER(TRIM(a.title)), '.$sql_keyword.',\'\'))) / LENGTH('.$sql_keyword.'))) + (60*((LENGTH(TRIM(a.introtext)) -...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  14. SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html

    foreach (string myValue in exceptionArray_this) { if (ValueToConvert.Contains(myValue)) { ValueToConvert = ValueToConvert.Replace(myValue, myValue.ToLower()); } } // tranformation exceptions: words to be UPPERCASED // note the first letter case and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  15. PHP - Remove newlines and spaces from StyleSheethttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-remove-newlines-and-spaces-from-stylesheet.html

    = " #copyright a{ margin: 10px 0 0 85px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.3); }"; $v_AppStyleFormatted = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $v_AppStyle); and a few str_replace arrays: // exceptions $a_ReplaceFrom1 = array("px ", "0 ", " a");...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  16. Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

    What? An article on how to quickly adapt an array code and sort by its values. Surprising how many examples are on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. The original code is not my own either but that's...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: *
  17. Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

    feed would be done on the respective social network's site. How: This simply displays the feed... (no write back) Facebook Replace https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookpage with your facebook URL and replace My Facebook Page with the title of your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  18. Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressionshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-some-useful-regular-expressions.html

    in Zoho. How? The following will remove any non-digits: v_MyString = "Hello World 123"; v_MyFormattedString = v_MyString.replaceAll("[^0-9]",""); // yields 123 The following is used in searches to escape special characters with a backslash: v_MyString =...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho
    • Language: *
  19. Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Order Notifications via Webhookhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-order-notifications-via-webhook.html

    m_Params.put("WarningLevel","High"); m_Params.put("ErrorLanguage","en_GB"); // // convert to xml and replace root nodes x_Params = m_Params.toXML(); x_Params = x_Params.toString().replaceFirst("",""); x_Params = x_Params.toString().replaceFirst("","");...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho
    • Language: *
  20. Counting the occurence of a word within a string: Benchmarkhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/counting-the-occurence-of-a-word-within-a-string-benchmark.html

    Count by Split+Count took : 0.44112181663513 Seconds Count by Preg_Match+Count took : 0.46423101425171 Seconds Count by str_replace took : 0.23512482643127 Seconds Count By str_ireplace took : 0.39766597747803 Seconds Count By Explode+Count took :...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
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