Creative Web Design & Development

MindPalette™ LLC is a creative web development company based in Indianapolis, IN. We are currently in a state of transition, and will be shifting most of our development focus to:

  • PHP Form Processing Scripts (new versions to replace NateMail and ProcessForm)
  • Joomla! Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug-ins & Templates)
  • WordPress Themes & Plugins
  • jQuery and JavaScript Plugins & Scripts

Though no longer actively developed, we will continue to offer free downloads of our GoLive Actions. The older Scripts and Tutorials are also still available, though future content and development will be in our new Development Blog.

Ajax Form Submission in Joomla 2.5 with jQuery

Apr 06

2012

I’m developing a custom c-commerce component for Joomla 2.5, and today was struggling with using Ajax from my admin lists. I wanted to make small changes to the list via Ajax without having to reload the entire page – publish state, deletes, quick edits, etc. To handle the Ajax form submissions, I was using jQuery and the jQuery Form Plugin. Read More »

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Custom Admin Quickicon in Joomla! 2.5

Feb 07

2012

I recently had to dig up how to add a custom admin Quickicon (the icon links on the left side of the Administrator section’s control panel) in Joomla 2.5. In previous versions, I’d just built a custom admin module for each icon. Now, there seems to be a somewhat easier way. Read More »

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Forcing NULL date field values in Joomla 1.7 JTable

Jan 19

2012

I’ve been upgrading my Joomla! knowledge from version 1.5 to 1.7, and ran into an issue with JTable where my date fields, though they had a NULL default in the database, were getting saved with a value of ’0000-00-00′ on save, presumably because the value was being sent as an empty string. Read More »

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