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HTML5 Boilerplate looks interesting

klevisi — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:51:04 +0000

It looks like a perfect startup theme. I will do my next HTML5/CSS site with it.

WordPress Basis Theme

klevisi — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:19:32 +0000

I just discovered the WP Basis Theme. It’s a clean and very minimalistic theme. I will use it on my next project for sure.

Change JForms (0.7 RC2) email subject

klevisi — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:55:53 +0000

It’s strange but JForms doesn’t have a field where you can put the subject of the email that goes to the administrator when a form is filled. They will implement it later for sure.
However, if you want to change the subjects of the forms, you should hack the Mail.php code of JForms.

Here is how to do it:

1. Go to /administrator/components/com_jforms/plugins/storage/Mail/Mail.php

2. Find this linke of code:

$mail->SetSubject($field->parameters['subject']);

and replace it with:


$formID = $form->id;
if($formID == 1) {
$mail->SetSubject(JText::_('TEXT FOR SUBJECT IN FORM WITH ID 1'));
} else if($formID == 2) {
$mail->SetSubject(JText::_('TEXT FOR SUBJECT IN FORM WITH ID 2'));
} else if($formID == 3) {
$mail->SetSubject(JText::_('TEXT FOR SUBJECT IN FORM WITH ID 3'));
} else {
$mail->SetSubject(JText::_('TEXT FOR SUBJECT IN FORM WITH A DIFFERENT ID'));
}

Changing header information in a Joomla Template

klevisi — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:22:52 +0000

In some Joomla templates you can change the information in the tags directly by going in the template and adding html code inside the tags. However, some other templates have in the header this line of code:

which includes the header information from some file.
If you like to change a tag, directly in the template file, you should write this PHP code inside the scope of the tags:

setMetaData(‘robots’, ‘noindex, nofollow’); ?>

which is equivalent with:

Since I use this technique often, and I often forget about it, i decided to put it in my blog.

PHPExcel and Joomla

klevisi — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:54:54 +0000

When you try to include the PHPExcel library into a joomla article (using a plugin for inserting PHP code into an article), it doesn’t work. It displays a white screen. I found a solution for that. It maybe not the best way to fix this since I’ve modified the Joomla core.

Go to /libraries/loader.php and replace:

function __autoload($class)
{
if(JLoader::load($class)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

with:

function Joomla_Autoload($class) {
if(JLoader::load($class)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/*** specify extensions that may be loaded ***/
spl_autoload_extensions('.php, .class.php, .lib.php');
/*** register the loader functions ***/
spl_autoload_register('Joomla_Autoload');

JF Twitter module problem fix

klevisi — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:15:34 +0000

If you have experienced this error in your webpage:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /modules/mod_jf_twitter/helper.php on line 38

Then it is a problem of “JF Twitter” module. Do the following on /modules/mod_jf_twitter/helper.php/helper.php on line 38:

Change this:


if(!empty($this->tweets)) {
$profile = $this->tweets[0]->user;
}

To this:


if(count($this->tweets)>1 and !empty($this->tweets)) {
$profile = $this->tweets[0]->user;
} else {
echo "";
}

I am not sure why this problem occurs, but I think it is because an application can do a fixed number of calls per hour on the Twitter API. The first time this error hapened to me was when Twitter.com was over capacity, but it happened again when Twitter.com was working. This happened on “JF Twitter V.2.3″

UserCake User Management System

klevisi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:11:28 +0000

If you need a simple user management system in php go with UserCake.
Don’t confuse it with CakePHP, it has nothing to do with it.
I’ve used UserCake on a project, and it was very nice to use, so I recommend it.
And the best thing is that it is open source.

Phpfreechat Albanian language

klevisi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:09:26 +0000

I just translated phpfreechat version 1.2 into the albanian language.
Feel free to download and use.

Installation:
1. DOWNLOAD the language file.
2. extract it into /i18n/ folder
3. in your chat file (suppose it is chat.php) add the following code in the beginning:
$params['language'] = ‘sq_AL’;

Enjoy!