UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

22 October 2010 with UTF8. I tried enough extensions and forum solutions, and although these changes would have an effect on the module (such as take away accents and convert to ASCII), they weren't what we were looking for. The quick solution was to make the script...

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

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 Why? This was for a multi lookup with staff as the list entries. The lookup needed to filter against various forms such as Staff Rotas, Leave Requests, Qualifications and some others. How? The aim/objective is the following: Store what was already...

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

Restoring your WYSIWYG editor after upgrading Joomlahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/restoring-your-wysiwyg-editor-after-upgrading-joomla.html

15 September 2009 compatible with some MS Office 2007 styling and fortunately maintains it's previous button layout. The features such as full-screen editing, emoticons, and pasting from MS Word documents make it the best in the market IMO. Joomla FCK Editor You can...

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

Disable User Registration in Joomla 1.5 - Configuration Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/disable-user-registration-in-joomla-1-5-configuration-file.html

08 October 2013 it. allowUserRegistration=1 to enable it. Not Working? Are you sure you are using the Joomla user component or a 3rd-party such as Community Builder or K2? If so, you're in trouble as you HAVE to use the joomla admin panel to edit the settings of the...

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

Joomla CMS: Register to Read Morehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-cms-register-to-read-more.html

11 April 2020 Joomla built-in search engine to also ignore permissions so that the article can still be indexed in global search engines such as Google. How? It's been difficult to search for the right words but heres the method to restrict the introtext to the...

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

Display a thumbnail of a Google Drive videohttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/display-a-thumbnail-of-a-google-drive-video.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

13 November 2018 File ID #1 Right-click on the file and select "Get Shareable Link". If link sharing is already on, it will display a link such as: https://drive.google.com/open?id=, where is the file ID. If not the "Share with Others" dialog will popup and the file ID...

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

UNC Paths in Sharepoint 2007 linkshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/unc-paths-in-sharepoint-2007-links.html?catid=77&Itemid=165

08 November 2012 Sharepoint 2007 What? I've been tasked with adding links to files located on some network shares. I want to use UNC paths such as \\myServer\myShare\myFile.doc. I could map the UNC path to a drive letter and then link to it (eg. I:\myFile.doc)but what...

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

VBScript to retrieve Windows Product Keyhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/vbscript-to-retrieve-windows-product-key.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

23 September 2015 Windows 7 with a small VB script file. There are other articles on the web about this but the ones I found returned errors such as WshShell not valid. This article has a working example applicable to Windows 7 Professional. Why? With the Windows 10...

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