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An article on how to resolve errors and setup a standard ping request using the TravelPort Universal API. This is to be achieved using PHP as the server-side programming language and cURL, a sub-component of PHP that allows you to send and receive requests as the server (as opposed to the client device).
This article serves as documentation for a module extension I made for the Joomla Content Management System versions 2.5 or later.
This is an article with notes for me on how to convert some received XML encoded in UTF-16 to some JSON in UTF-8. If it were entirely in UTF-8, I would simply load the received XML with SimpleXML and use the built-in PHP JSON_encode function. I ran into the following errors: Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [si...
A quick article for Joomla CMS version 3.x on resolving a menu item alias conflict: Warning Save failed with the following error. Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla Administration Panel (to check for and remove expired menu items) A good databa...
This article serves as documentation for a Joomla extension I have released which is a copy of the built-in Joomla Search module but with the parameters embedded (set in the administration section).
A note to myself on how to create a development/test version of a production/live Wordpress CMS site.
A quick article on how to create a middleware script which accepts the values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups.
A quick article on how to set a password using the database tools for super users.
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