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Comment on Joomla 2.5/1.7: Automatically assign users to a group based on email by imperialWicket

imperialWicket — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000

It could, but it would be a bit awkward. Joomla validates the form fields against the database fields, so you would actually need to update the user model and the database table to include a ‘registrationCode’ value in order to use this technique. Otherwise the registrationCode value gets sent to the controller, and then stripped during the model->validation() process.

There are a couple of extensions (like JomSocial) that ease the addition of fields to registration, but they make this technique much more difficult.

Custom registration fields keeps surfacing in the Joomla roadmap, hopefully it will come about soon and this type of functionality will find its way into the core. Right now the process would be to add a new field and then use that field to validate with the technique in this post. Just be sure that you don’t require the field, and that you allow empty or null values in the db.

Comment on Joomla 2.5/1.7: Automatically assign users to a group based on email by David

David — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:52:00 +0000

How would you change this script if say instead of the using the email address you used a custom field for perhaps a number code to gain access to higher level ACL. Could that be done?

Comment on Loading ePub books into the Nook by Kitty

Kitty — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure this out and nothing’s worked until I read this and realized the missing piece was that I needed to add books to the”My Digital Editions” folder which then needed to be dragged into the “My documents” folder. You’re awesome!

Comment on Will Color E-Ink replace LCD Displays? by tom

tom — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:27:00 +0000

I’m with you. I don’t want a single device that does everything pretty good. I want a dedicated e reader (that comics look great on) that works in the sun, has an incredibly long battery life, and that can run some very simple apps (appt book, email, blog reader etc). So my specifications require color e-ink. I just hope there is a whole market on my side.
What the color e-ink screen makers should be doing is trying to get indy comics on board before they sell it to the device makers. That’s one market that is way more suited to this type of device than any other.

Comment on Installing the CKEditor in Drupal 7 by imperialWicket

imperialWicket — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:57:00 +0000

You can also use the WYSIWYG module, which has built in support for CKEditor, FCKeditor, jWysiwyg, markItUp, NicEdit, openWYSIWYG, TinyMCE, Whizzywig, WYMeditor, and YUI editor. The individual modules are much easier to use and administer, but wysiwyg gives you options to use particular modules for particular roles, and also to manage all editors in one place. I'm on the fence, I bounce between liking the TinyMCE (although TinyMCE module isn't available for D7, they recommend using wysiwyg) or CKEditor modules, and then flipping over to using WYSIWYG and installing the TinyMCE or CKEditor libraries.

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Comment on Phoca Gallery: Enable SEF URLs and Better Searching (Joomla 1.5.x) by imperialWicket

imperialWicket — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:58:00 +0000

@Alan – The path is definitely important, and it looks like your image path will need to include ‘phocagallery’ instead of ‘gallery’ in the code. However, rather than troubleshooting the URL that is present when you click on the image, can you provide the relative URL that Joomla is using to attempt to display the image? It sound like you really have two problems, the first is that your thumbnail image is not displaying, and the second is that the thumbnail image links to an inappropriate location. I think it’s worth getting the thumbnail to display as a first measure.

Comment on Phoca Gallery: Enable SEF URLs and Better Searching (Joomla 1.5.x) by Alan

Alan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Hi, the thumbnail image isnt appearing. when i click on it this message apperars:

requested URL /gallery/11-color-block/detail/417-mg1669-1 was not found on this server.

I think the problem is that the images are inside different folders. One of the paths is this:

/home/botoesec/public_html/images/phocagallery/Color_Block/

How can i fix that to make the thumbnail image appear in the search?

Comment on NetBeans 7.1 Review by Guest

Guest — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:12:00 +0000

using vi is not archaic, once you know vi. if you don’t want to use vi, use phpstorm.

Comment on PHP array_push, and other array manipulators by daleV

daleV — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:24:00 +0000

Thanks, Tezzz, for pointing this out. You can actually see the renumbering of the array keys in both the array_shift and the array_unshift functions in the article. This could get you in real trouble, if your using the array index as a database id.