Things to Check if Joomla Password Reminder email not being senthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/things-to-check-if-joomla-password-reminder-email-not-being-sent.html

09 May 2013 refers to an issue within the Joomla CMS (version 2.5.x) where it fails to email users who reset their password. How? A few things to check: Check the email message even exists: Login to your Joomla Admin Panel Navigate to Extensions > Language Manager...

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

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 Comment that out and you will get errors regarding other elements of the CMS. This error could have been caused by many things but in the case of one of my clients, the error was due to an update process gone wrong. Not really the fault of Akeeba,...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 utf8_encode( $file_content ) ); // works! DONE! Stop reading any further and tell your boss it was always in hand. Other things I tried but to no avail The solution above was as easy as that. Here are a number of other things I tried first:...

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

Amazon Kindle: Send PDFs to your Kindlehttps://www.joellipman.com/amazon/kindle/amazon-kindle-send-pdfs-to-your-kindle.html

29 June 2022 device is also quite straightforward. All you need to do is send the PDF file to your Kindle email id. It is here that things might begin to seem a bit complicated in that not many might be aware Amazon allots an email address to every Kindle owner, and...

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

View your available module positionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/view-your-available-module-positions.html

15 September 2009 Bookmark the web address of the new window The bookmark/favorite that you have just made can be refreshed when you change things on your site and should reflect exactly how your website is overlayed with the module positions. You will need to repeat the...

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

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 which I found myself doing at lots of stages in this installation process. So note where it is and come back to it when things aren't responding properly....so in summary: General → Server configuration → Load settings → Recompile stale style...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
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Community Builder in Joomla Vulnerabilityhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/community-builder-in-joomla-vulnerability.html

10 November 2009 on and so I'll be posting solutions for those who need to keep Community Builder as their user manager. There are several things I have picked up which I will go into more detail as I test each one (11.11.09):...

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

Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html

03 June 2010 worked Repeat for all heading textboxes that weren't appearing This will yield something like the following: A few other things that I did to this report that may have contributed to it working: Checked all headings text boxes are aligned to one...

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

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 display any room bookings for that month. This is "Reinventing" because we used to use MS Outlook to store these kind of things until the company implemented a software to deal with room bookings and said we shouldn't use Outlook for this... The DataSet...

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

Room with a view E.M. Forsterhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/room-with-a-view-em-forster.html

04 February 2011 was reminiscing of: "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm--yes, choose a place where you won't do very...

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

28 June 2011 Answer: The program is built with what I call help 2.0. Visit the Help page in the program and it will check a few things to make sure it works on your computer. I've specified that that's all it scans for, it's not interested in your personal details...

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

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

27 September 2011 so there are more fun things to do out there. If you're the type of AutoHotkey programmer that doesn't like having to use the command prompt to write to an extra text file which your program has to read, then this is for you. DllCall will usually run...

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

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

03 October 2011 FROM my_joomla_db.jos_users a ORDER BY a.id; A bit more to do: PHP file So I needed to do a loop and rather than complicate things with stored procedures and cursors, it's likely if you're using either Joomla or Wordpress that you have a PHP enabled...

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

Basic Oracle Stored Procedure Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-stored-procedure-structure.html

16 January 2012 = p_STUDENT_ADNAME; END; View the results? Oracle PL/SQL is a bit of a bugger as you need to do a few other things to see the results of this stored procedure. The following are commands that I would run to view the results of the above example:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

10 October 2012 values. Additional Note how this also picked up typos in the 4th value which is good as I didn't want to overcomplicate things using LEVENSHTEIN and DIFFERENCE: SOUNDEX('Data Not Yet Available') = SOUNDEX('Daat oNt EYt Avialable')

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

Licence GNU/GPLhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/licence-gnugpl.html

03 April 2009 you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 data so do not expect it to reconcile with the requirement example. Note that we have two events on the Thursday. A few things we have to deal with still: We have lost the rows with days that have no events. We need to group by days so that each day...

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

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 folder and only copy those over (reason being, the archive is 4 terabytes and backing up only the changed files would speed things up). Applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 for Vista and Windows 2008 without XCOPY,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: en-GB

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 let's look at the XML output from SITS (this is a cut down version for demonstration purposes): 1234567 JOEL LIPMAN Two things to do really: Add the xmlns:xsi namespace in the xsl:stylesheet tag so that "xsi:nil=true" is valid. Test for a string length...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

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 $fields_string); // execute post $result = curl_exec($ch); // close connection curl_close($ch); Things I stumbled upon regarding SSL and cURL Posted data for third-party apps is often required via SSL so this may come in handy curl_setopt($ch,...

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