TravelPort Universal API - Ping Request with PHP-cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/travelport-universal-api-ping-request-with-php-curl.html

27 April 2015 Applies to: TravelPort Universal API PHP 4 or 5 cURL What? 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...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: API Miscellaneous
• Language: *

List of Font Awesomehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/list-of-font-awesome.html

04 September 2015 What? I needed to use these in a template I was working on. Font awesome is a brilliant tool for webdevelopers who want icons that can be any size of any color without compromising on image quality or overhead maintenance. It's basically a font set that...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

Joes Word Cloud (JWC) Downloadhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-word-cloud-jwc-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 VersionPlatform ChangeLogOptions3.2.4- Fixed Bug: Some systems report "Strict Standards: Non-static method called" - Note: not included in auto-update as it only applies to certain environments. - Note: this version is also backwards compatible with...

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

Joes Revolver Map (JRM) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-revolver-map-jrm-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 VersionPlatform ChangeLogOptions1.5 (4)- Enhancement: Restored alignment parameter - Enhancement: Restored colors and new colors given - Enhancement: Compatible with Joomla v2.5.x - Fixed: Backwards compatible parameters updated - Date Uploaded: Fri,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
• Language: *

Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 VersionPlatform ChangeLogOptions3.1.1 Artur- Enhancement: Added parameter: Weblink separator height. - Enhancement: Added parameter: Display submitted by. - Enhancement: Added parameter: Display category. - Enhancement: Reorganized parameters "Module...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
• Language: *

Joes Youtube Plugin (JYP) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-youtube-plugin-jyp-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 VersionPlatform ChangeLogOptions1.0.5- Tested for compatibility with Joomla! CMS v3.4.0 - Included instructions in description - Included license file - Date Uploaded: Thu, 12th Mar 2015 Download 1.0.4- Tested for compatibility with Joomla! CMS v2.5.8...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
• Language: *

Joes Google Map (JGM) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-google-map-jgm-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 VersionPlatform ChangeLogOptions1.1- Added parameters: Width, Height - Added parameters: Zoom Level, Heading, Tilt - Added parameters: Marker 1: Latitude, Longitude - Added parameters: Marker 1: HTML to display, Replace Marker Image - Added parameters:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
• Language: *

Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

12 September 2015 version as it is considered unstable for official use... Saying that this is how I upgraded my own personal website: www.joellipman.com. This article assumes you are familiar with upgrading a Joomla! CMS and running MySQL statements against your...

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

Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

29 September 2015 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: *

Import Excel CSV file as JavaScript arrayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/import-excel-csv-file-as-javascript-array.html

05 October 2015 What I have: A CSV file exported from Excel along with double-quotes label1,label2 item1a,item2a item1c,"item2c,c" item1b,item2b What I want: To read the file (stored on the server) and convert to a JavaScript array of objects var my_object_array = [ {...

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

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

23 October 2015 to your static IP address # PREVENT VIEWING OF .HTACCESS order allow,deny deny from all ErrorDocument 403 http://www.joellipman.com/error/403.html # change this to your 403 - forbidden page. These are two methods I like and will work in tandem. They...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 Applies to: PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.1.4 Databases initially setup with collation 'latin1_swedish_ci' What Another article trying to help people display foreign characters on their website without the funny question marks in diamond symbols and how I solved it...

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

Accessing Apimo WebService APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/accessing-apimo-webservice-api.html

29 March 2016 Applies to: Apimo Webservice 2.0 (apimo.com) PHP v5.5 What? This is an article on how I connected to the Apimo WebService. The Apimo Webservice is an API provided by apimo.com and requires a server request over HTTPS using the GET method. Why? This was...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: API Miscellaneous
• Language: *

Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

16 May 2016 What? A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

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

13 June 2016 What? A quick article showing my MySQL statement when I want to remove all the accents from foreign characters and return the English equivalent. Why? A content management system (CMS) that I'm working on has just gone international and started...

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

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 $timeout); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $data; } $file_content = get_data( "http://joellipman.com/xml_feeds/my_XML_url.xml" ); $file_xml = simplexml_load_string( $file_content ); // doesn't work and returns a load of parser errors The...

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

Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE00005https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-live-mail-error-id-0x8de00005.html

14 December 2016 Applies to: Windows Live Mail 2012 What? A quick article on how to update the Microsoft Live Server URL for Hotmail using Windows Live Mail. Well how to deactivate an account and set up a new one in Windows Live Mail. If you used IMAP all along then the...

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

Upload file to Google Drive with PHP/cURL and API REST v3 (without Client Library)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/upload-file-to-google-drive-with-php-curl-and-api-rest-v3-without-library-install.html

29 October 2018 Google Developers Console - APIs RFC 2387 - The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type Google Drive API v3 | Files Update JoelLipman.com - Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURL

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

Pure JS - Display Time Elapsed & Remaininghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/pure-js-display-time-elapsed-remaining.html

30 October 2018 What? This is an example of Javascript code to update and display the elapsed/remaining hours minutes and seconds in real-time. Why? I know there are a lot of articles out there that write about the same, but this is an example that I was coding and...

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

Ubuntu as a media serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/ubuntu-as-a-media-server.html

19 September 2009 1. If someone wants to use Ubuntu as a home media pc connected to a tv, there is the problem of overscan; consumer tv's crop off the border around the image. How does Ubuntu intend to officially solve this? Right now LinuxMCE has it's own method for...

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