MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

22 October 2014 A quick article on how to populate a database column from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

VBScript to retrieve Windows Product Keyhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/vbscript-to-retrieve-windows-product-key.html

23 September 2015 A quick article with the code to retrieve your product key in Windows 7 with a small VB script file. There are other articles on the web about this but the ones I found returned errors such as WshShell not valid. This article has a working example...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: en-GB

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM tablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/select-count-distinct-name-from-table.html

24 September 2015 A quick article to remind me about this issue. Not sure whether it is specific to the Joomla Content Management System, but within the Joomla! CMS, an error 1054 comes up if you use the above statement. Why? The MySQL statement SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Pad with leading Zeroshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-pad-with-leading-zeros.html

07 February 2020 There may be other articles out there documenting this but I can't keep trying to find these in Google so referring to my own website, this is a doddle for me to find each time. Why? I have to do this so often that it deserves an article. Though writing...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Joomla: Remove IDs from URLs for out-of-the-box SEFhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-remove-ids-from-urls.html

14 March 2020 to Joomla! CMS v3.5.x What? This is a short article on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs. // What I have...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Joomla CMS: Register to Read Morehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-cms-register-to-read-more.html

11 April 2020 This article is a quick note on how to change your Joomla CMS "Read More" to "Register to Read More" all without hacking away at the Joomla core. Why? Well a few hacks may be necessary because not only do we want to restrict read more content (full...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Make Upload File Field Mandatoryhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-make-upload-file-field-mandatory.html

18 December 2024 What? A quick article on making an "upload file" field mandatory. Why? Because for some reason, it wouldn't appear as selectable when I tried using a layout rule. Probably everyone else has figured this out and I'm just late to the party. How? Through...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Nested Catch Statementshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-nested-catch-statements.html

04 February 2025 What? A really quick article on demonstrating a nested try...catch()... statement working in Zoho CRM. Why? To prove a point to ChatGPT who said this was not possible... and to deal with a scenario which exists for a client of mine. The use-case for my...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: isBlank and isNull: Before or After?http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-isblank-and-isnull-before-or-after.html

10 February 2025 A really quick article to test when to use isNull and isBlank. Why? So I've noticed that looking at people's Zoho Deluge code, there will often be a check on a null before or after the variable: if(v_Test.isBlank()) {... } VS if(isBlank(v_Test)) {......

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Client Script Confirmation Box and Popup Mailerhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-client-script-prompt-and-popup-mailer.html

06 February 2024 This is an article just repeating a script from the Zoho Kaizen series allowing a confirmation box (something lacking in Zoho Creator - but that every app outside of Zoho has) as well as a popup to email from CRM with a rich-text interface. Why? The...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZCRM Client Script: Correct Decimal Fields OnLoadhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zcrm-client-script-correct-decimal-fields-onload.html

13 December 2023 This is an article detailing the client script to fix any fields which exceed their decimal places limit in ZohoCRM. Why? So we have a customer that has some decimal fields on the products module that are calculated and will sometimes return numbers...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZohoCRM: ZDK Client Script to retrieve Contact Emailhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-zdk-client-script-to-retrieve-contact-email.html

20 July 2022 An article on one of my first client scripts for ZohoCRM. This retrieves and populates an email field based on when a contact is selected in a lookup field. Why? I could do a normal automation/workflow on save of the record, but the client wants the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

How to redirect the visitor after the contact pagehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/how-to-redirect-the-visitor-after-the-contact-page.html

06 September 2009 create one within the Joomla 1.5 admin interface and make sure it is published. I have tried the method below with both an article and a contact page, but it should work for most other page redirects as well. Step Two: Next if you don't already know the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Add the website name to the page title in Joomla!http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/add-the-website-name-to-the-page-title.html

06 September 2009 to, I've noticed some differences that I've noted down below. Specific Joomla Template Providers Everytime I update this article, Joomla seems to come out with a new version. If you have installed Joomla 2.5, this is now a setting in the global...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Counting the occurence of a word within a string: Benchmarkhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/counting-the-occurence-of-a-word-within-a-string-benchmark.html

06 September 2009 I added this article because when I was only trying to look up how to do this, this nut "the Storyteller" went and carried out a benchmark test on the most popular ways of counting the occurrence of a specific word within a string of text. Source:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 website set up. Go to the phpBB website (www.phpbb.com) and download their latest stable release. At the time of this article, this was version 3.0.5, but RocketTheme are fully aware of this and seem to be committed to keeping their templates compatible...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Anti-Spam override for all submitted datahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/anti-spam-override-for-all-submitted-data.html

03 February 2010 I found that sometimes the captcha wouldn't even match what you typed and what it displayed!!! I have written this article to be another one of those programmer's tweaks. This is quite a simple fix and I will hopefully be able to keep it simple for...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

25 February 2010 will be included in terms of features (calendar, polls, login, etc) Progress Update and Review Website Page Layout Standard article / presentation page Contact form(s) Discuss page types with module layouts Template customization and branding. Apply to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

Lazy stats: Yootheme / Gavick Pro / Rocket Theme Comparisonhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/lazy-stats-yootheme-and-gavick-pro.html

08 April 2010 in my opinion) of 3 major joomla template/extension providers. When I'm less caught up in work I'll try adding to this article. But here's some lazy stats: Package Comparison Table Personal Business Developer YooTheme 3 months 1 license Unlimited...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windowshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/remove-write-protect-from-pen-in-windows.html

13 April 2010 solution on a windows xp machine so if the error happens again, I'll try fixing it on my windows 7 setup and update this article. I found someone else on the Internet who doesn’t use the “remove device safely” blab and he got the same error. He (unless...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: en-GB