Regular Expression Basic Usage Exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/regular-expression-basic-usage-examples.html

28 October 2013 What? A quick reminder on basic regular expressions. Match Any Character — Dot The dot operator '.' matches any single character in the current character set. For example, to find the sequence--'a', followed by any character, followed by 'c'--use...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 primary aim of this tutorial, but it will prove valuable because you should be able to find plenty of useful JavaScript examples online. This will be helpful because in my opinion, the simplest way to start using COM is to learn some basic JavaScript,...

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

JDatabase: using the Joomla database with exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jdatabase-using-the-joomla-database.html

27 January 2013 classes but this is just a quick note for myself as a reference sheet. Plus the official documentation don't have enough examples in my view. Source: http://docs.joomla.org/ for v1.5.x and for v2.5.x This article applies to Joomla 1.5.x, 2.5.x and 3.x....

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

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

20 August 2012 form within Joomla 1.6.x - 2.5.x in it's most basic state. At time of print, I am using this with Joomla 2.5.6. Why? The examples of the official site (mootools.net) did not work in my Joomla environment nor did most people's examples across the web....

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

Convert to Proper Case in T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/convert-to-proper-case-in-t-sql.html

04 June 2014 END ELSE BEGIN -- return the string unaffected if it is not in uppercase SET @Ret=@Text END RETURN @Ret END Examples of what this script does: Reminder: The script only affects data already in UPPERCASE. Change the IF (UPPER(@Text)=@Text COLLATE...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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 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 not an...

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

T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 AS XML).value('(/STAFF/GENDER="MALE")[1]','VARCHAR(10)')='TRUE' AS Gender -- Returns records where GENDER = "Male" More Examples (Note that Event_XML is of datatype XML in the following examples): -- exist() returns 1 or 0 if node exists or not...

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

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

04 September 2015 head section of your webpage You then add the icon to your webpage using a CSS reference: My facebook social icon Further examples are on the following site at https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/examples/. The List This is a copy of the cheat...

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

Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-past-date-to-time-ago-in-php.html

16 May 2019 a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? Here are some examples of what we want to achieve: 1 year 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours 6 minutes 7 seconds // full string 1 year 3 weeks 5 hours...

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

CSS Ordered List 1, 1.1...1.10 Formatting and Alignmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-ordered-list-1-1-1-1-10-formatting-and-alignment.html

10 July 2019 who want to include their terms and conditions in quote/invoice templates and want the HTML to be indented neatly. Other examples out there will work, but I found that once the list count increased the number of digits (eg. 1.10) the text would be more...

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

ZohoCRM: Using Criteria with Module Record Counthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-using-criteria-with-module-record-count.html

14 November 2023 and for the system to work out how many pages or loops in total it would need to do. How? Here's a couple of working examples I use in production systems: Pre-amble: I'm applying to a Zoho Instance on the US Datacenter (.COM) These examples are using...

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

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 just need a table returned with the "EventDate" and the "Note" variables from the other database. If I use the hard-coded examples above, I would want a results table similar to the following: EventDate Note...

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

Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html

04 February 2011 the maximum number of rows retrieved Yields something like: This is the bottom left of a report where both the above examples (fill and borders) have been applied:

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 Ok it needs a lot more work in terms of design but the functionality is there. Adding Events Again I've put two rooms as examples in the above script. The "Events" table needs as a minimum the 4 fields "Room", "EventStart", "EventFinish", and "Status"...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

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

06 April 2011 $sum_hours = number_format(((strtotime($this_time_from_sql)-strtotime($this_time_from_sql))/60)/60, 2); // Using the examples above this is doing the following: 2011-03-04 12:00:00 - 2011-03-04 10:00:00 = 2.00 2011-03-08 00:30:00 - 2011-03-08 23:30:00 =...

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

SSRS / MDX Date Querieshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-mdx-date-queries.html

03 August 2011 some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010), SSRS 2008 R2. The following examples assume today's date is Wednesday 03 August 2011 @ 11:46: This Week: -- Start Date (US format - mm/dd/yyyy) =DateAdd("d",...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Fun with DllCall in AutoHotkeyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/fun-with-dllcall-in-autohotkey.html

27 September 2011 StrLen( Var )+2 : StringTrimLeft, List, List, %Omit% DllCall( "ImageHlp\UnMapAndLoad", UInt,&$LI ) Return List } ExitApp Examples of DllCall'ing: // get number of network card interfaces DllCall("iphlpapi\GetNumberOfInterfaces", "UintP", nIf) MsgBox %...

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

MySQL last year week month day trend periodshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-last-year-week-month-day-trend.html

31 October 2011 to signup. It goes a little further and counts activated accounts for the past day, week, month and year (the below examples count all accounts irrespective of being activated or not). It needs to pick up trends as well and compare for example todays,...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than "fun" as most of the examples on the net are either half-complete or partially documented. So here goes... Using Business Intelligence Development Studio v2008...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

21 August 2012 this value into an array separated by the delimiter character "" -- join this array back replacing any spaces with nothing Examples: -- If field is "Joes Just Joking!" yields "JoesJustJoking!" -- If field is " Space is a big place " yields...

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