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

06 May 2019 no silver bullets here but I want to block any character that isn't a letter, a number or an underscore. How? Suppose the following exists as a MySQL database table called my_table_name: What we have:...

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

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 I've previously used this for password change reminders but on this occasion for a listing of reviews laid out as per the following screenshot:

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• 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 Item 1a 1.2 Item 1b... 1.9 Item 1c 1.10 Item 1d 2. Item 2 How? I've been refining this based on several examples and the following solution seems to be the most stable: ol { list-style-type: none; counter-reset: myCounter; display: table; margin: 0;...

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

AutoHotkey - MS Windows 10 - Open Apps on Multiple Monitors and Desktopshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-ms-windows-10-open-apps-on-multiple-monitors-and-desktops.html

18 July 2019 I'd jot down some notes here on how I've achieved this across multiple monitors... and now multiple desktops. How? The following example is assuming you have 3 monitors and 3 desktops. I'm going to cover the basic code to: 1) get all monitors, 2) open...

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

Zoho Deluge: Adding / Removing Total Tax from a Quote Recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-adding-removing-total-tax-from-a-quote-record.html

20 August 2019 options, if you want this to be zero, you need to pass the option of tax as zero and remove all other options. Take the following code for example, this will add 20% tax to the overall Tax on this record (where p_QuoteID is the ID of the quote): // init...

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

Zoho Deluge - Modify the product line items in an invoice modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-modify-the-product-line-items-in-an-invoice-module.html

22 August 2019 Undocumented, the trick is to remove the existing ID of the line item and posting the map back to the record. In the following example, we are swapping out the product "123456789012345678" with the product "987654321098765432" and p_InvoiceID is the ID...

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

Zoho Deluge - Counting in a Map dataTypehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-counting-in-a-map.html

02 September 2019 which counts the number of products allocated to an account or in total for a purchase order. Let us assume we have the following in a form/report called "Stock_Upload": RowID Name SKU Account Email 0001 Test Product 1 TEST001 test1@joellipman.com 0002...

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

CSS Center an iFrame Horizontally and Verticallyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-center-an-iframe-horizontally-and-vertically.html

23 September 2019 top of the parent... How? We're going to use a touch of CSS and instead of determining heights and alignment with JS. The following code will work with DIV layers but in this case, also works on iframes: HTML: Horizontally and Vertically Centered Iframe...

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

Zoho Deluge - First Monday of Month or Last Tuesday of Monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-first-monday-of-month-or-last-tuesday-of-month.html

27 September 2019 last Tuesday of the month and that Tuesday happens before today, then we want the last Tuesday of the next month. In the following code, consider that the date field we want to set is called "Switch_Over_Day". For the first Monday, we are going to...

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

Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-retrieve-record-with-case-insensitive.html

21 November 2019 I'd put an article here to remind me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive. Why? Consider that I have the following creator table: Product_Name Product_SKU -------------- ------------- MyProduct1 TEST01 Myproduct2 TEST02 myproduct3...

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

Zoho Deluge - InvokeConnector and useful snippetshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-invokeconnector-and-useful-snippets.html

23 January 2020 { info v_User.get("full_name") + " :: " + v_User.get("id"); } } } Update 2020: Note this can also be achieved with the following shortcode: l_Users = zoho.crm.getRecords("users"); or a specific user: r_ZohoResponse =...

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

Zoho CRM/Creator - Common Errors & Gotchashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-common-errors-gotchas.html

06 February 2020 type :PUT parameters:m_CreateRecord headers:m_Header ]; Problem: Value is empty and 'get' function cannot be applied Following a post similar to the above example by InvokeURL and then getting a JSON response back, the response does not seem to be read...

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

Zoho Deluge: Associate/Link an Invoice to a Sales Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-associate-link-an-invoice-to-a-sales-order.html

10 March 2020 info r_Update; Update 2023 If the above doesn't work, consider making an API call to the following endpoint: m_Params = Map(); m_Params.put("invoice_ids", ); m_Params.put("organization_id", ); r_Associate = invokeUrl [ url:...

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

MySQL: Count occurrences of words in a columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-count-occurrences-of-words-in-a-column.html

12 March 2020 how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL. So the following query will return a count of each word in your database column by order of most used first (replace 'mydbprefix_content' with...

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

Zoho Deluge: Duplicate/Clone a Recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-duplicate-clone-a-record.html

17 March 2020 format for API v2 is: https://www.zohoapis.{eu or com}/crm/v2/settings/fields?module={module-name} You can then use the following snippet to get all the fields for the module. In our case, for "Invoices": /* Function: fn_Button_CloneInvoice Purpose:...

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

AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 Copy.wav What I want My File 1.txt My File 2.txt My File 3 (2).wav My File 3.wav My File 3 (3).wav How? So if you copy the following code into an AutoHotkey file and execute it, it will popup an app with 3 buttons: 1st to generate or populate a list of...

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

Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-10-shortcut-apps-to-settings.html

30 July 2020 ok post on the Microsoft website? Well I could bookmark that page or save myself a click... How? To test any of the following, type the windows key and select "Run..." ( + R). Then type the value in the 2nd column "App to Run" then OK to run it:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

AutoHotkey: Get Media Information and Displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-get-media-information-and-display.html

07 August 2020 // note this returns in 100ns units (= 100 nanoseconds) as per Microsoft Docs. 100ns Units So the following snippet of code will convert your 100ns units to a displayable Hours : Minutes : Seconds format which is more user-friendly: ; Function:...

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

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 I was using to insert subform rows was wrong. Contrary to what the documentation that says "This task can be used in the following events", effective as of today October 19, 2020, I have not found a place you cannot use this deluge script. The...

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

Zoho Creator Page: Toggle On/Off Switch: Hide/Display a Divhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-page-toggle-on-off-switch-hide-display-a-div.html

22 October 2020 that change on the fly based on a mouse event in Zoho Creator automatically get removed on Save/Update of the page. The following uses the built-in functionality of Zoho Creator and could be seen as a 'Pure CSS' feature. I'm aiming to make a list of...

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