PHP Script: Make your own Thumbnail Generator via APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/php-script-make-your-own-thumbnail-generator-via-api.html

29 May 2025 directory on your server (for example, public_html/api/thumbnailer.php). It will be called as a JSON API over GET and does not render a webpage. Create Storage Folders In the same directory, create two writable subfolders: _origs/ — stores the original...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Ubuntu as a media serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/ubuntu-as-a-media-server.html

19 September 2009 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 doing this so the LMCE UI is never...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Linux
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How to put MediaWiki into Debug modehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/how-to-put-mediawiki-into-debug-mode.html

22 October 2009 By adding the following line to your LocalSettings.php file, you will be able to log everything that WikiMedia does: $wgDebugLogFile = '/home/username/public_html/wikidir/logfile'; IMPORTANT NOTE: The path above should be the exact full path to the...

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

Search and Replace in a MySQL Databasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/search-and-replace-in-a-mysql-database.html

17 March 2010 Ok is it just me who does everything slowly and badly until someone comes along and says why are you doing it like that? My justification is that the job has to be done no matter what. If you've ever sat there with phpMyAdmin or a MySQL Administration...

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

SSRS Repeat Headers in PDF Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html

26 October 2011 the tablix headers only appear once on the first page. Every subsequent page simply displays the report header (which does not include the tablix header... obviously). I right-clicked on the header row of the tablix and checked the box "Repeat header...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 will output all files including subdirectories to temp.txt in your local working folder. Additional Notes the switch "-S" does not work on certain systems (at least not accompanied with the command to output to a local file. Type dir . temp.txt to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: File Transfer Protocol
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Joes WebGL Experimenthttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-webgl-experiment.html?catid=40

06 April 2013 stable beta version is demo'd at http://demo.joellipman.com/joomla16/index.php/joes-infographic-for-joomla Limitations Does not work in MS Internet Explorer Is not working on iOS and certain smartphones Advantages No copyright, watermarks and as...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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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 we're having some corruption issues and simply using the Joomla! administrator panel to navigate to global configuration, does not work! How? It isn't in the configuration.php file prior to Joomla! v1.6.x but in the database. Open the database to the...

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

Joomla Development: Possible XML Filtershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-development-possible-xml-filters.html

17 October 2013 three special characters _ (underscore) . (dot) - (dash) BASE64 Forces the value to be a base64 encoded the string. Note it does not encode the string, it simply strips characters that may not exist in a base 64 encoded string. STRING Removes HTML HTML...

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

SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html

03 June 2014 Select the dll and click on "Add" Related Error(s): The type or namespace name 'SSISScriptComponentEntryPointAttribute' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline'

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

CSV Chart Generatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/csv-chart-generator.html?catid=40

04 September 2015 exported CSV list from a standard MS Windows eventlog or eventviewer log and generate a chart from the data. What my program does is convert all the data into a settings and data file that can be used by the charting system AMCharts.com. AMCharts.com...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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Make bootstrap carousel responsive to swipehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/bootstrap/make-bootstrap-carousel-responsive-to-swipe.html

14 December 2016 I really like the solution (and think it should be voted best answer) put forward by Mark Shiraldi: The code is minimal but does what it needs to do (tested on iOS) and doesn't appear to effect other javascripts. Put this in a JS: /*! Bootstrap Carousel...

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

Joomla: Remove IDs from URLs for out-of-the-box SEFhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-remove-ids-from-urls.html

14 March 2020 // What I want www.joellipman.com/category-alias/article-alias.html How? You could buy an SEF extension that does this for you or spend time tweaking your .htaccess file. Or you can take advantage of a Joomla update and do this without any coding......

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