Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
This is something that has troubled me for at least a year or more…Joomla would refuse to send emails whatever you set in the global configuration file.
This is what I did to get it to work whether you need all the steps or not I’m not 100% sure, all I know is I can now debug from my local machine without having to dump everything on an external which quite frankly is a pain in the arse!
This is all set up with a Google mail account which seems to do the trick and using a WAMP envoirnment not tried it with any other email service. How to after the jump…
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Tags: Email, Joomla, Joomla Email settings, Joomla Hacks, localhost, php.ini, php_openssl.dll, SMTP, WAMP
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Joomla is annoying from time to time when you think something should be simple but it just complicates matters here are some hints and little hacks that can help you get the most out of Joomla.
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Tags: Check user logged in Joomla, Custom Page Title Joomla, Joomla, Joomla Hacks, Joomla Logout Link
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I have been working with Joomla for over three years now and recently my love for it as a CMS has started to fade. Now I’m not sure if its the CMS thats annoying me or the feeling that a bespoke solution to content management would make thing a whole lot easier?
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Tags: Content Management, Joomla
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
It’s been along while since I posted anything tech related.. mainly down to it being low down my pecking order of interests right now though its still good fun. Like today I wanted to do my own thing within a jshop template… add my own template variables from a custom sql query. What I wanted to do was add a hidden section and then add sections within there to hold some banner images thus allowing content management by the client and the section wouldn’t be included in the main loop. Here’s how…
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Tags: custom sql query, JShop, Jshop custom template, templating for jshop
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
JSLint is a JavaScript code validator which will check the syntax of the code you have written. Now more often that not when I write my code I leave a comma in where its not needed or miss a bracket which is usually fine in Firefox. But when you try the code in Internet Explorer it throws a wobbly. If I find I am having issues with IE then I put my code through JSLink which highlights any issues with your code. When you have over 100 lines of JS and you know you are hunting down one comma this can be tricky – but this site takes the guess work out of the process.
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Tags: javascript, Javascript code validator, JSLint
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Before christmas at work we produced about five holding pages for a client these were identical sites just templated up for each of the stores/new logo etc they all had a simple form on them however…
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Tags: Design, development
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