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Joomla Development: Possible XML Filters
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Joomla Development: Possible XML Filters

Applies to: Joomla! CMS 2.5.x Joomla Filter: Validation OnSave INT Forces the value to be an Integer UINT Forces the value to be an absolute number (-4.2 becomes 4.2) FLOAT Forces the value to be a floating point value BOOL Forces the value to be true or false WORD Strips anything that is not letters (including numbers...

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Improve Default Joomla Search
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Improve Default Joomla Search

So I can't stand the way the default "Search" component in Joomla works. The default is to sort the results by popularity (hits) or by most recently added (depending on your version) which I have never seen in any other system. I've googled and binged but could not find anything that documents how to bring it into line...

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Joes WebGL Experiment
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Joes WebGL Experiment

A replacement for Joes Revolver Maps? So I recently came across the Chrome Experiments WebGL Globe which I think is beautiful; here's a screenshot of what I envisaged though: Demo It's still in development and a somewhat stable beta version is demo'd at http://demo.joellipman.com/joomla16/index.php/joes-infographic-for...

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Change the default Joomla Error template
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Change the default Joomla Error template

This is a quick article on what I change the error page for Joomla websites to. I like a clean error page, for a demo visit http://www.joellipman.com/my_error_page. Applies to Joomla 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.5.x How? Backup the file \templates\system\error.php Create a replacement file called error.php including the below code...

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AwStats Data Parser (ADP)
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AwStats Data Parser (ADP)

So it's the end of the month again and I have to prepare a report for some investors. The idea of an infographic report has excited them to no end but because the end of the month didn't wait for me to finish the project, I quickly created this program to extract all the data values from an AwStats report. Advanced Web...

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JDatabase: using the Joomla database with examples
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JDatabase: using the Joomla database with examples

Apologies for posting yet another article on how to access the Joomla Database using the Joomla classes but this is just a quick note for myself as a reference sheet. Plus the official documentation don't have enough examples in my view. Source: http://docs.joomla.org/ for v1.5.x and for v2.5.x This article applies to...

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