cross platform software

April 2, 2012

Custom Joomla 1.0 website migrating to PHP 5.3

So your hosting automatically updated your web account to the latest version of php, version 5.3.  You may not have wanted this, but now you are stuck with it.  What has it done to your site?  Well your content produced by Joomla’s com_content component now doesn’t display.  This basically means all of the content on [...]

March 27, 2012

Page–[node-type].tpl.php for Drupal 7

You may have discovered that many places discuss that you can theme your drupal 7 template per node type by simply creating the template file: page–[node-type].tpl.php However, this is not avaialable in the current release of drupal 7 without adding a pre-processing hook to your template.php theme file.  In order to have this work, you [...]

September 16, 2011

Locating Slow MySQL Queries: A Quick and Easy Way

Every once in a while during php and MySQL development, you may come across a page of your website that for some reason is loading very slowly. And you can’t seem to figure out what is causing it. Maybe there are a number of MySQL lookups occurring, but you cannot seem to figure out which [...]

June 23, 2011

Programming Note: MediaWiki update, Admin no longer seen as bureaucrat or sysop

For those using MediaWiki for their site wiki installations, we have a valuable tip that as of yet, we have not seen anybody else deal with. The symptoms: You log in with a user such as Administrator that should have full admin privileges, but once logged in you are still unable to perform the extra [...]

June 8, 2011

Drupal Customization Drastically Reducing Spambot User Registration

To follow up on a recent post in which we were using ReCaptcha customizations to further prevent spam attacks on our websites, we wanted to include this additional method which will cause spam systems to have real trouble submitting valid forms on your drupal sites. This drupal customization comes based on the details discussed on [...]

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