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

22 October 2010 (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 run a MySQL command at the start: SET NAMES 'utf8' Now I need to run this command from within a Joomla! extension using...

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

Inserting incremental weeks in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/inserting-incremental-weeks-in-mysql.html

15 April 2011 1st of January 2010 was a Friday. The 1st of January 2011 was a Saturday. The developer felt that as long as you adjust the script each year you could make the system last another year. Shame he also forgot the academic year ends halfway in a normal...

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

List all cron jobs for all usershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/list-all-cron-jobs-for-all-users.html

04 May 2011 little script I found on Stack Overflow. Wasn't really my solution as after 2 hours, realised that the customer had been looking at the wrong server. But this script showed me where the cron job we intended was located. #!/bin/bash # System-wide crontab...

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

Migrate Joomla Users to WordPresshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/migrate-joomla-users-to-wordpress.html

03 October 2011 keen not to ask all my users to have to change their passwords but that is what the commercial applications are doing. The script to transfer users This is a free solution to at least get your user accounts all migrated. How you deal with the passwords...

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

Basic Joomla 2.5 Mootools Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/basic-joomla-25-mootools-form.html

20 August 2012 yes no Ajax Response Ready, Willing and Able Big Note: UPDATE 2012 It is important to refer to the correct mootools scripts in order for this to work. Unfortunately, clients who sign up to template providers who disallow access to their support forums...

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

Joomla article modal with clear buttonhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-article-modal-with-clear-button.html

27 August 2012 solution which I found is compatible with almost any site and with all my components without having to modify the below script. Why? The article modal is a much easier way for the end-users to select a Joomla! article in the component...

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

Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

08 October 2012 I have a PHP script which behaves like PhpMyAdmin, in that it automatically lists a database structure and the fields to modify similar to an excel spreadsheet. Now without using PHP, I need standalone SQL scripts that can simply be used to search an...

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

Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 Entity: line 1: parser error : Document labelled UTF-16 but has UTF-8 content in /public_html/.../.../my_script.php on line ### Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Document labelled UTF-16...

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

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 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 file into memory with...

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

Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 documenting how to create a Zoho Creator Widget which includes the Bootstrap and jQuery frameworks as well as other JavaScript functionality. Why? Quite simply that at time of print (2020-10-24), Zoho Creator does not allow you to use JavaScript...

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

Zoho Creator: info/alert/modal/popup notification for any userhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-info-alert-modal-popup-notification-for-any-user.html

06 November 2020 v_Content = r_NotifyDetails.Content; To close the dialog on the receiving page, you can add the following code: openUrl("#Script:dialog.close","same window"); Known Issues Popup opens in the parent window: This only happens on certain machines and I...

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

ZohoCRM: Integrate ChatGPT to ZohoZIAhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-integrate-chatgpt-to-zohozia.html

06 March 2023 m_Prompt.put("prompt_msg",v_Response); m_Response.put("prompt",m_Prompt); // // output return m_Response; click on "Save Script" Test using the sidebar on the right Click on "Done" when satisfied. Click on the left arrow/caret to return to the ZohoCRM...

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

First and Last Entry on a Page using Modulus Remainderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/first-and-last-entry-on-a-page-using-modulus-remainder.html

26 September 2011 a loop, which entry was first and which was last. This is incredibly useful for pagination. The Situation I want the script to start writing a DIV layer in the code at the start of the loop (and at every first entry of a page). I want the script to...

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

Zoho CRM: Make Upload File Field Mandatoryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-make-upload-file-field-mandatory.html

18 December 2024 Probably everyone else has figured this out and I'm just late to the party. How? Through the wonders of Zoho CRM Client Script. So we're going to check on page onload, onchange for the Create Page (Standard), Edit Page (Standard), and Details Page...

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

Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videoshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/mediawiki-extension-for-camtasia-studio-swf-videos.html

08 October 2009 'author' => 'Joel Lipman (based on original flvplayer by Christopher Ottley)', 'url' => 'http://www.joellipman.com/', 'description' => 'Displays videos we have created using Camtasia Studio.' ); $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfFlvPlayerExtension"; /* * The...

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

Community Builder in Joomla Vulnerabilityhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/community-builder-in-joomla-vulnerability.html

10 November 2009 using a joomla site, backup just the database, do a fresh install of joomla and use the database sql file as the migration script. There are some more details of prevous CB hacks in the Joomla forum (source:...

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

SQL Queries for Statisticshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/sql-queries-for-statistics.html

13 December 2010 Basically, I've started using so much more SQL in our new Business Intelligence projects that I've been revising all my scripts to see what SQL I can optimize. One of my systems is a MediaWiki CMS which is used for the official Bournemouth University...

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

MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

25 February 2011 The Why So I find myself writing increasingly complex SQL scripts and it's at the stage where we need to optimize the queries because some scripts are noticeably slow (as observed by the customer...) and then others not. The What I'm going to run these...

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

Difference between two dates - the midnight hourhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/difference-between-two-dates-the-midnight-hour.html

06 April 2011 10:00 12:00 2.00 08/03/2011 Tweedle Dum 23:30 00:30 -23.00 Note the last row is obviously incorrect. This is because the script is not changing the date at the stroke of midnight. Take the last row as an example, the equation that's happening is:...

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

Joes FREE Website Thumbnailer (JWT)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-free-website-thumbnailer.html?catid=40

28 June 2011 process and read your emails at the same time on the same monitor). Download Details: JoelLipman.Com is my repository for scripts, programs and extensions to existing web-development systems. I use it to store notes that other websites either do not...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *