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: *

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 What? This is an article which lists the functions necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired....

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

Zoho Deluge - Get English Ordinalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-english-ordinal.html

08 November 2018 What? This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018". Why? Well there's a long a way to do it (but...

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

Zoho Deluge: Loop through 30 Minute Slotshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-loop-through-list.html

30 November 2018 What? This code snippet took me a while to do and the documentation is flaky so I thought I'd make a note here just in case I need to refer to it again. Why? I want to modify a picklist and fill it with options from a certain time of the day to the...

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

AutoHotkey: Check Windows Folder Sizeshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-check-windows-folder-sizes.html

28 January 2019 What? So I needed to clear space on a workstation's C drive. There are other programs about and even some built-in to MS Windows that could potentially be used. This is a quick article on how to write an AutoHotkey program to simply return the folders...

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

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: *

Zoho CRM: APIv2 using PHP & cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-apiv2-using-php-curl.html

30 January 2019 What? This is an article documenting how to access ZohoCRM with API v2 using PHP and cURL. The first few functions are to manage OAuth v2 and generate the refresh and access tokens. The second snippet of code below is using the functions to read data...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 What? This is an article explaining the code needed to write a PHP script which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• 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 What? This article serves to explain how to split a spreadsheet consisting of multiple sheets into separate files per sheet. Why? The Excel file in question was about 36000 rows and had a file size of about 11Mb. In order for an import process to work,...

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

Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

14 February 2019 What? This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two...

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

Zoho Deluge - Update Creator from CRMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-update-creator-from-crm.html

18 February 2019 What? This is an article documenting how to update Creator from a workflow written in a Deluge Script held in ZohoCRM. Why? I've also started this article to document an issue we encountered where our code was as per the documentation provided, and the...

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

Zoho Templates - Font size is inexplicably tinyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-templates-font-size-is-inexplicably-tiny.html

22 February 2019 What? This is an article resolving an issue where a template will shrink all the text when in PDF preview. Why? Ok doesn't need a song and dance about it, but I went home yesterday downtrodden by an issue which I'd been working on for most of the day...

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

CSS Printing - Page Break Inside with Headers and Footershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-printing-page-break-inside-with-headers-and-footers.html

22 February 2019 What? I saw a lot of articles that would cover this but I wanted an example which includes headers and footers and how to get an automatic page-break-inside to not overlap these. Fine on screen but this is obviously for when it comes to printing. Why? I...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Minimal Privileges for MySQL Database Backup Cron Jobhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/cpanel/minimal-privileges-for-mysql-database-backup-cron-job.html

20 March 2019 What A quick note as I had difficulty finding a clear answer on this. I need a cron job setup where the permissions for a database user is required to do a backup (reading and copying data from a LIVE database) to a copy of the database (inaccessible...

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

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 What? So this is an article for me on how to copy Joomla's and Wordpress' feature where a Title/Name value is converted to a search-engine friendly URL alias and is unique in the database. Ok that's a long sentence; let me try this: When I save a record...

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