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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Ajax Form Submission in Joomla 2.5 with jQuery
Apr 06
2012
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 »
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 »
I had some difficulty today trying to share my printer over the network with my wife’s new laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I’m not exactly sure which steps were all required, but I did end up getting it to work to where the Windows machine can now print to the Mac shared printer. Steps I took: Read More »
MAMP Apache Conf Disappeared Today
Aug 16
2011
I ran into some issues with my local MAMP installation today. I’m not sure if MAMP did a behind-the-scenes update, or if it’s somehow related to my OS update this evening to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1. Basically, all my custom virtual host configurations disappeared from:
/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf
Joomla Component Preferences Button
Jun 07
2011
I ran into a frustrating issue today while developing a custom component where the Preferences button would not show up. In case I’m not the only one that encounters this, here’s what happened…
Custom 404 Error Pages in Joomla
May 05
2011
I’ve recently had to build custom 404 pages for a few Joomla sites, and it seems like every time it comes up, I have to dig around for the information again and look up how I did it last time. I’m posting the details here so it’s all in one place for me, and hopefully it saves you some time and effort as well. Read More »
Center GoLive Layers Page
Aug 25
2009
So, you’ve already designed your web page using GoLive layers (GoLive CS+) or floating boxes (GoLive 6 and older) and now you’d like that page to center in your browser window? The reason this is more complicated than it seems is because layers (read “floating boxes” if you’re using an older version of GoLive) have absolute positioning, and that positioning is measured from the top and left edges of the window. The top edge is no problem, but we need to make it measure from the center instead of the left edge. It’s not quite as simple as hitting a “center” button, but it’s not as difficult as it seems. Read More »
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