Joomla 1.7 has a nice module mod_related_items (Articles Related) that shows articles related to the current one the visitor is browsing. It has one issue though, you can’t set a limit. So a little code hacking is in order. Open modules/mod_related_items/helper.php and go to line 94 (right after the Filter by language if) and...
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cbnet Ping Optimizer is killing a site
Some wise soul decided many moons ago that installing the aforementioned plugin on a site I host. The wise soul is long gone (admining websites for ngo’s as a volunteer is no fun to many ) but the site was getting more and more sluggish lately. I decided to clean a bit the many...
Concatenate multiple *.vcf files into one for importing into gMail
I have a secondary phone that is running Android. My main phone is still a Nokia N900 for which I gave up trying to sync contacts with gmail. Two options basically exist for n900 none of which works for me: using MFE which works from time to time use syncevolution which invariably screws my...
Error noticed in Joomla site apache logs
rowsing trough my web logs I found the following error in the apache error log of a Joomla site: View Code APACHELOG1 PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in aaa/libraries/joomla/html/parameter.php on line 83 One suggestion found online was: Edit parameters.php and change the line 83 as...
Web interface for Zabbix didn’t load
I was installing today Zabbix on a CentOS 5.6 machine and hit the following error when trying to load the PHP Web Interface: View Code BASH1 PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bcscale() in /var/www/zabbix/include/defines.inc.php on line 797 The fix was one package install away: View Code BASH1 # yum -y install php-bcmath...
Enabling spell check in Mindtouch Core
After an update the spell checker I was used to dissapeared. Here’s how the (re)enable the (new) spell checker: Go to Control Panel -> Configuration -> Basic -> Tick “Allow users to spell check while editing content” and hit Save Go back to editing and you should see the icon with “ABC” and a...
Add php APC and UploadProgress support to CentOS
I was playing today with some file uploading scripts and noticed that they require one of the two in order to be able to display a progress bar. Those are the steps required to enabled both of them on centos: View Code BASH1 2 3 yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel pecl install apc...
Make Joomla 1.0 work with PHP 5.3
With the recent posts regarding resurrecting old stuff, recently I had to resurrect a Joomla 1.0 site. Soon enough I discovered that the home page doesn’t display correctly. No errors, just lots of white space . The problem is that Joomla 1.0 is not really made for PHP 5.3. Of course I could have...
Firefox 4 on linux change to one button menu and make it nice and orange
When I upgraded to Firefox 4 on my linux machines I was disappointed to see that the classic menu bar remained. I’m not necesarily a fan of the new ribbon interfaces but since I don’t use the menu often and so prefer to use the space for something useful, like the tabs. Reducing the...
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