Could not instantiate mail functionhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/could-not-instantiate-mail-function.html

09 May 2011 Quick Fix Check that this error isn't resolved by just changing the Mailer (Joomla > Global Configuration > Mailer settings). Alternate between PHPmail and sendmail just to check this isn't the problem. If the problem is still there then check the...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 innerText, innerHTML Methods - The following Methods will be used throughout this tutorial. (comparable to built-in functions for AHK) alert(), getElementById(), getElementsByName(), getElementsByTagName(), focus(), click() Before we begin, this...

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

ZohoCRM: Process all records of a modulehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-process-all-records-of-a-module.html

24 August 2021 record twice. Why? Whether you have a few hundred records, or a few hundred thousand records, we sometimes want to write a function that will check each record and mark it so that the process doesn't repeat on records that have already been checked....

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

Zoho Creator / eBay: Get all Active Productshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-ebay-get-all-active-products.html

13 October 2021 This is an article to document a function used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's eBay store. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to retrieve a list of all the listed active products in a fixed price...

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

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 using the eBay GUI Selling website. I've included the code to parse out the information as well. Why? Because I need this function too often either for debugging/monitoring purposes but it's easier to use an access token then getting the OAuth access...

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

ZohoDeluge: eBay marketplace account deletion/closure notificationshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-ebay-marketplace-account-deletion-closure-notifications.html

13 March 2025 eBay’s validation process, which requires your endpoint to successfully reply to eBay's challenge code. So I created a function within ZohoCRM to return the challenge and made it into a REST API function with a zapikey. I entered the URL ZohoCRM gives...

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

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

06 December 2011 CMS to a SaaS called Service-Now. The previous interlinking between images could no longer be used. How? There were a few functions out there. One called "strip_tags" crashed in the running of the query. The function that did work errored persistently...

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

This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browserhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/this-file-contains-html-or-script-code-that-may-be-erroneously-interpreted-by-a-web-browser.html

08 October 2009 your /includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php file and add the following line shortly after the declaration of detectScript function: if ($extension === 'swf') return false; I put it straight after: function detectScript($file, $mime, $extension) { global...

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

Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videoshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/mediawiki-extension-for-camtasia-studio-swf-videos.html

08 October 2009 => 'http://www.joellipman.com/', 'description' => 'Displays videos we have created using Camtasia Studio.' ); $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfFlvPlayerExtension"; /* * The FlvPlayer class generates code that embeds a flash movie player * with reference to...

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

Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 If it were entirely in UTF-8, I would simply load the received XML with SimpleXML and use the built-in PHP JSON_encode function. I ran into the following errors: Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 1:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

16 May 2016 need to specify the app in the Facebook developers tools but this may be for the write-back version). window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : 'myfacebookpage.com', xfbml : true, version : 'v2.5' }); }; (function(d, s, id){ var js, fjs =...

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

PHP Issue: simplexml_load_string parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-issue-simplexml-load-string-parser-error-input-is-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding.html

02 August 2016 the issue of importing characters from an XML in a different language character set and trying to load it in PHP with the function simplexml_load_string(). The error I get is something similar to: PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line #:...

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

Zoho Deluge - Generate 5 Letter Booking Retrieval Codehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-5-letter-booking-retrieval-code.html

09 May 2019 This is a quick article on how to generate a 5 letter code from several functions: one which returns 5 randomly selected characters and another two which convert a number to 5 letters. Why? Zoho doesn't have a function to generate random numbers or...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get distance between two coordinateshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/get-distance-between-two-points-in-zoho.html

11 June 2019 following roads and the such but.. the following is free albeit as-the-crow flies. This makes use of an undocumented function in Zoho which is acos or inverse cosine. Just lifted from the JavaScript library figuring if it supports cos() then try this...

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

ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openingshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohorecruit-create-linking-table-for-candidates-and-associated-job-openings.html

08 February 2023 The Deluge code for workflow /* ******************************************************************************* Function: void fn_AB_AssociateVacancy2Candidate(int p_CandidateID) Workflow: AB001: Associate Job Openings with Candidate Trigger: Workflow...

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

ZohoCRM Webhook: Create ZohoInventory Records from an eBay orderhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-webhook-create-zohoinventory-records-from-an-ebay-order.html

27 April 2023 that request an eBay integration. This is a comprehensive snippet which does the whole lot. How? Using the method of "mega-functions", here is the code snippet for one function which will accept as parameter the eBay order reference and generate all the...

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

Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDFhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-get-images-in-report-to-be-exported-to-pdf.html

26 January 2024 How? So I'll go over what happens in the real world process; then cover some technical information; and even include the function that makes it work: Business Process Customer visits website to report a faulty product; using website form or chat....

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

ZohoCreator: Basic Widget with Zoho Datahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-basic-widget-with-zoho-data.html

14 March 2024 These are the contents of main.js and is working at time of print: // Start with Zoho SDK stuff ZOHO.CREATOR.init() .then(function(data) { // Initialize var v_ShopifyID = ""; var v_ShopifyEmail = ""; var v_GreetingName = ""; // Try and catch try{ // Get...

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

ZohoCreator: Using .toFile and Uploading to a Creator fieldhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-using-tofile-and-uploading-to-a-creator-field.html

25 March 2024 This is a quick article on generating a file with the Zoho Deluge function .toFile() and uploading it to a file upload field within Zoho Creator. Why? The use-case here is that we want a file to be hosted within Zoho Creator for use by a JS widget that...

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

Zoho CRM: Updating a CRM record Custom Line Items using API v7http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-updating-a-crm-record-using-api-v7.html

18 December 2024 What? This is a quick bit of code for my reference so that I don't have to keep finding a function that gives me the syntax of how to either create or update a record using invokeUrl. Why? Because my designers keep including custom fields in their...

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