Copy a Wordpress Site for Developmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/copy-a-wordpress-site-for-development.html

08 March 2015 to: Wordpress CMS v4.1.1 What? A note to myself on how to create a development/test version of a production/live Wordpress CMS site. Why? I have a website sitting at a domain (eg. www.myexample.com), and I want to create an exact copy at a subdomain...

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

Joes Search Module (JSM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-search-module-jsm.html?catid=40

09 March 2015 What? This article serves as documentation for a Joomla extension I have released which is a copy of the built-in Joomla Search module but with the parameters embedded (set in the administration section). Why? A client has a repository of PDF documents...

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

Warning: Save failed. Another menu item has the same aliashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/warning-save-failed-another-menu-item-has-the-same-alias.html

13 March 2015 What? A quick article for Joomla CMS version 3.x on resolving a menu item alias conflict: Warning Save failed with the following error. Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla...

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

TravelPort Universal API - Ping Request with PHP-cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/travelport-universal-api-ping-request-with-php-curl.html

27 April 2015 to: TravelPort Universal API PHP 4 or 5 cURL What? An article on how to resolve errors and setup a standard ping request using the TravelPort Universal API. This is to be achieved using PHP as the server-side programming language and cURL, a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: API Miscellaneous
• Language: *

Protecting your Joomla Administrator Sectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/protecting-your-joomla-administrator-section.html

23 October 2015 What? This is a quick article to remind me how to move a Joomla administration section and to lock it down to a specific IP address. The below does not involve installing any third-party extensions and will remain in place even if you update your Joomla...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 to: PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.1.4 Databases initially setup with collation 'latin1_swedish_ci' What Another article trying to help people display foreign characters on their website without the funny question marks in diamond symbols and how I solved it in my...

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

Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

16 May 2016 What? A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only...

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

Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

13 June 2016 What? A quick article showing my MySQL statement when I want to remove all the accents from foreign characters and return the English equivalent. Why? A content management system (CMS) that I'm working on has just gone international and started...

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

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 What? A quick article to stop me running into this issue again. This article serves to address the issue of importing characters from an XML in a different language character set and trying to load it in PHP with the function simplexml_load_string()....

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

Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE00005https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-live-mail-error-id-0x8de00005.html

14 December 2016 to: Windows Live Mail 2012 What? A quick article on how to update the Microsoft Live Server URL for Hotmail using Windows Live Mail. Well how to deactivate an account and set up a new one in Windows Live Mail. If you used IMAP all along then the new...

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

Pure JS - Display Time Elapsed & Remaininghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/pure-js-display-time-elapsed-remaining.html

30 October 2018 What? This is an example of Javascript code to update and display the elapsed/remaining hours minutes and seconds in real-time. Why? I know there are a lot of articles out there that write about the same, but this is an example that I was coding and...

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

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 What? This is an article which lists the functions necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired....

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

Zoho Deluge - Get English Ordinalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-english-ordinal.html

08 November 2018 What? This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018". Why? Well there's a long a way to do it (but...

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

Zoho Deluge: Loop through 30 Minute Slotshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-loop-through-list.html

30 November 2018 What? This code snippet took me a while to do and the documentation is flaky so I thought I'd make a note here just in case I need to refer to it again. Why? I want to modify a picklist and fill it with options from a certain time of the day to the...

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

Zoho CRM: APIv2 using PHP & cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-apiv2-using-php-curl.html

30 January 2019 What? This is an article documenting how to access ZohoCRM with API v2 using PHP and cURL. The first few functions are to manage OAuth v2 and generate the refresh and access tokens. The second snippet of code below is using the functions to read data...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 What? This is an article explaining the code needed to write a PHP script which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended:...

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

Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

14 February 2019 What? This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two...

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

Zoho Deluge - Update Creator from CRMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-update-creator-from-crm.html

18 February 2019 What? This is an article documenting how to update Creator from a workflow written in a Deluge Script held in ZohoCRM. Why? I've also started this article to document an issue we encountered where our code was as per the documentation provided, and the...

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

Zoho Templates - Font size is inexplicably tinyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-templates-font-size-is-inexplicably-tiny.html

22 February 2019 What? This is an article resolving an issue where a template will shrink all the text when in PDF preview. Why? Ok doesn't need a song and dance about it, but I went home yesterday downtrodden by an issue which I'd been working on for most of the day...

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

Minimal Privileges for MySQL Database Backup Cron Jobhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/cpanel/minimal-privileges-for-mysql-database-backup-cron-job.html

20 March 2019 What A quick note as I had difficulty finding a clear answer on this. I need a cron job setup where the permissions for a database user is required to do a backup (reading and copying data from a LIVE database) to a copy of the database (inaccessible...

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