Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw.html?catid=40

03 July 2011 Install this module ZIP using your Joomla! CMS extension manager. Go to "Content" > "Media Manager" > Create a folder for your thumbnails. Go to "Extensions" > "Module Manager" > Click on module to publish/customize it. Specify the images folder as the...

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Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 How? Here's one method I used based on the services available to my client: Copy all files of your main website to another folder. Setup an FTP account to the new folder created in the previous step. Copy the database of your main site to another...

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

301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 the alarm but hey-ho. How? I'm going to show you how to do this with a .htaccess file: Upload a text file to the root folder of the old domain's website Rename it as ".htaccess" (or modify the existing one) Add the code as per below. Save the change....

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Protecting your Joomla Administrator Sectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/protecting-your-joomla-administrator-section.html

23 October 2015 corporations). But just in case you don't have one, let me do this in two stages. Move the /administrator URL Create a folder in the root of your joomla website with a name that is difficult to guess but easy to memorise. Create a file called index.php...

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

MS Excel - Split Workbook into separate files per sheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-split-workbook-into-separate-files-per-sheet.html

11 February 2019 sheet to a separate file that is formatted as XLS (Not *.xlsx). How? In summary, we are going to move the Excel file to a folder of its own. We're going to run two VBScripts in two stages, firstly to split the specified rows into sheets, then each sheet...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

Add a template to the dropdown in Kunenahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/add-a-template-to-the-dropdown-in-kunena.html

20 September 2009 your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the \components\com_kunena\template folder is on your local disk Make a copy of the default folder inside Rename this to the name of your new template (avoid any...

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Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 install the latest Joomla CMS Go through the Joomla Web-based Installation GUI until the process deletes the Installation folder. Avoid installing Sample Data if possible (there will be some but this script has been reworked to potentially accommodate)....

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SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sourceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-how-to-loop-through-multiple-flat-files-as-data-sources.html

13 June 2014 This is an article to demonstrate a quick step-by-step on having an SSIS package loop through a directory/folder of files in order to populate a database table. We could add each file as a separate connection manager but this is inefficient and not...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

Batch Process to rename multiple files using Windows DOShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/batch-process-to-rename-multiple-files-using-windows-dos.html

09 August 2014 file b) use it to rename the files c) delete the batch file. Open a command prompt: Method #1 Open windows explorer to the folder you want to apply this to Hold down the shift key and right-click on the folder Select "open command window here" Open a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: en-GB

AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 the script directory, the 2nd to do the actual renaming. A text field is provided (defaults to A_ScriptDir) to specify what folder to scan for files. The 3rd button simply reloads the app (used mostly for testing/development). Lastly, a listview that...

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• Category: AutoHotkey
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Migrate MediaWiki to another serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/migrate-mediawiki-to-another-server.html

23 September 2009 Old Server mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql tar -cvf wiki.tar wiki ;this is the wiki folder on document root New Server: create database wikidb; this is inside mysql, Note that both mysql versions should be same. grant create, select, insert,...

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

List last modified files using FTP Command-linehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/ftp/list-last-modified-files-using-ftp-command-line.html

20 November 2012 (where "my_ftp_host" is the hostname or IP of the server holding my site) Enter login credentials Type dir (lists files & folders in the current remote working directory) Type cd /path/to/my/website to change directory to the root folder containing your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: File Transfer Protocol
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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

17 September 2009 I've called it 'uploaded_file'. 2. Check that the destination directory is writable by Apache. This is the full path to the folder that you will be uploading the files to and should be 755 (ie. rwxr-xr-x). The change ownership command in shell is 'chown...

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

Joes Bug Tracker (JBT)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-bug-tracker-jbt.html?catid=40

07 July 2011 Section: Settings/Configuration --- Component landing page customization (add note to see Component Style). --- Storage folder for files (can be outside of Joomla! for performance). --- Protect storage folder (only accessed through Joomla!?). ---...

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• Category: Product Documentation
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Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 third line of my code How? Open a MS-DOS Command Prompt (Start > Run... > Type "COMMAND" > Enter) [Optional] Browse to the folder that contains the file (or use full path in path reference). This example assumes the file is in C drive (C:\). Create an...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
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Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 one of those things. Check the sizes of the PHP files on your site and hope that they're not at 0 bytes. Excluding the HOME folder - only check the subfolders. If they are, you've lost the Joomla CMS and you'll need to restore them from a backup. NOTE:...

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

Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html

28 March 2014 with administrative privileges Select HKEY_USERS Go to the menu File and select Load Hive Navigate to that user's profile folder, usually C:\users\username in this case Users > Guest Enter NTUSER.DAT in the File name box. (This file is a system-hidden...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 array. - Date Uploaded: Thu, 31st Oct 2013 3.0- Fixed Bug: Version compatible with Joomla v3 - Enhancement: Added thumbnail folder finder to debug notes. - Date Uploaded: Mon, 16th Sep 2013 2.4 SimonB- Fix Bug: Change for PHP v5.4 - Date Uploaded: Sun,...

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• Category: Downloads
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PHP Issue: simplexml_load_string parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !https://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-issue-simplexml-load-string-parser-error-input-is-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding.html

02 August 2016 line #: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA0 0x3C 0x2F 0x73 in /home/public_html/my_folder/my_xml_processing_script.php on line 160 Why? I'm downloading an XML feed to our servers, and then loading the downloaded...

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Setting a rocket theme background to fixedhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setting-a-rocket-theme-background-to-fixed.html

06 September 2009 50% 0 no-repeat fixed;} Click on the 'Save' button. The theme is getting it from a generated php file. Look in the CSS folder of the template. You should find a PHP file in this folder with the body.bgstyle# line you need to change as in steps 3 and 4.

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