Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 but without making any changes. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- II. 1. Declare some variables -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- A bit obsolete as we'll...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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CharIndex Reverse - find occurrence starting from end of string in TSQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/charindex-reverse-find-occurrence-starting-from-end-of-string-in-tsql.html

28 January 2013 How? Perhaps we should determine the position of the last needle first (reverse the haystack string and find needle): DECLARE @Haystack VARCHAR(31); SET @Haystack = 'String1.String2.String3.String4'; -- I want "String4" from Haystack SET @Delimiter =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html

04 October 2013 { try { // Check type for all string properties if (object.ReferenceEquals(p.PropertyType, typeof(string))) { // declare two arrays string[] exceptionArray_this; string[] exceptionArray_that; // get the value we want to transform string ValueToConvert =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

AHK Countdown Tooltiphttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html

17 July 2014 ; DECLARE GLOBALS ; ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ; Program title ThisProgram:="ByeBU Countdown" ; Program version...

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• Category: AutoHotkey
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Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 An article on how to declare an XML element as NULL using the attribute "xsi:nil". I'm going to use a very short example by providing a blank date of birth value: -- What I have: // -- What I want: Why? Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging...

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• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
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Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 basis so I wanted a standard way of doing it and I'll update this article as I improve on the code. How? So the plan is: Declare the functions. Authenticate on page load by checking timestamp in token file: If token is required, redirect user to Consent...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• Language: en-GB

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'; $api['gapis']['drive']['files'] = 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files'; 4. Declare a PHP function to send requests using cURL A standard function that is skipping the SSL checks and returns a PHP array...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• Language: en-GB

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 to the collection, and the second time to add the collection to the subform. Syntax for inserting a row into a subform: // declare a variable to hold the collection of rows = Collection(); // declaring the row = .(); // assigning values for various...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 popup if over 80%, else success ******************************************************************************* */ // // declare v_TotalClashes = 0; v_TotalDeptEmployees = 0; v_OutputMessage = ""; // // get record details v_RequestId =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 Creator owner and app name respectively) Update 2022: I've included the code to verify the webhook came from Shopify: // // declare response variable back to Shopify m_Response = Map(); // // enter webhook key featured in the "settings > notifications >...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 user and allows the change or not ******************************************************************************* */ // // declare m_Output = Map(); v_UserID = 0; v_UserProfile = ""; l_DisallowedProfiles = List({"Agent"}); l_DisallowedOptions =...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Inventory: Upload Image to Item Record using Delugehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-inventory-upload-image-to-item-record.html

21 June 2022 will depend on your datacenter (eg. COM or EU), and lastly the connection "joel_books" is my connection to ZohoBooks: // // declare ID of item in Zoho Inventory v_InventoryId = 123456789012345678; // // your organization ID (optional) v_BooksOrgId =...

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Zoho Creator: Populate a Multi-Lookuphttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-populate-a-multi-lookup.html

18 August 2022 specified in a previous multi-line text field l_PackageRefs = c_Appt.Associated_Package_Slips1.toList(); // // important to declare this as a list of integers l_PackagesToAdd = List:Int(); for each v_PackageRef in l_PackageRefs { // // fetch the package...

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Zoho CRM: Manage a subform using Client Scripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-manage-a-subform-using-client-script.html

09 December 2022 'Rate_Year_4_0': v_DealRate4 }); // start subform management // ***************************************** // declare the new row and JSON argument var json_Row = new Array(); var json_Arg = new Object(); // get some values beforehand which allows us to...

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• Category: Zoho
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ZohoDeluge: Get All eBay Orders Given a From and Till Datehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-get-all-ebay-orders-given-a-from-and-till-date.html

28 February 2023 to adjust the parsing code below to capture auction details. This includes a split for any multi-line item orders: // // declare variables to store order details in a JSON or ZohoDeluge Map format m_Response = Map(); l_JsonOrders = List(); // // loop...

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ZohoCRM: Get Organization Business Hours using Deluge/APIhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-organization-business-hours-via-deluge-api.html

28 March 2023 Encountered Value is empty and '1234567000001234567' function cannot be applied: Possibly due to me trying to create and declare the subform before having specified any record to insert it into. Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_109 expression found COLLECTION...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Survey & Zoho Analytics: Query to generate individual responses and grouped pageshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-survey-zoho-analytics-query-to-generate-individual-responses-and-grouped-pages.html

25 September 2025 info f_ChartExport; // // -------------------------------------------------------------------- // // declare apis domain v_ZohoApisDomain = "https://www.zohoapis.com"; // // get list of images currently held in the field we want to remove (only want 1...

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Zoho CRM Client Script: Map Quote to Invoicehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-client-script-map-quote-to-invoice.html

09 October 2025 of quoted items to invoiced items (i console logged out the quote record and used the API names of the invoiced items) // declare new array to store line items for invoice var a_InvoiceLineItems = []; // loop through quoted line items for (i = 0; i...

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Strip HTML in MySQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/strip-html-in-mysql.html

06 December 2011 fnStripTags; DELIMITER | CREATE FUNCTION fnStripTags( Dirty varchar(4000) ) RETURNS varchar(4000) DETERMINISTIC BEGIN DECLARE iStart, iEnd, iLength int; WHILE Locate( '', Dirty, Locate( '', Dirty, Locate( '

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• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

Convert a delimited string to tablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/convert-a-delimited-string-to-table.html

26 October 2012 omits the ID column and just leaves VALUE. Why? Do we need a reason? How? For SQL Server 2005 or later, using T-SQL: DECLARE @myStringToParse VARCHAR(max), @myXML XML; SET @myStringToParse = 'Title,Forenames,Surname'; SELECT @myXml = CONVERT(xml,'' +...

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• Category: Databases
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