PHP: First name and Initial of Surnamehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-first-name-and-initial-of-surname.html

27 March 2014 }else{ $author_name_disp=ucfirst($author_name); } // output echo $author_name_disp; A lot of repetition so lets reduce that a touch: // default $author_name_disp=$author_name; // check and transform $delimiters=array(' ', '.'); foreach($delimiters as...

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

SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html

03 June 2014 This article is so that I don't spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to Microsoft...

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

SSIS: Cannot open Data Flow Task: DTS.Pipeline.2 issuehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-cannot-open-data-flow-task-dts-pipeline-2-issue.html

09 June 2014 sql server setup, re-ran the repair to no avail. A clue came from the MS site for an older version of the pipeline in that you access the SQL Server Configuration Manager. This may not be the fix for you but it was for me: Open Start > All Programs >...

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

SITS: XET format for Export not availablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-xet-format-for-export-not-available.html

08 August 2014 the system has never heard of it. Why? To test the XET I created, I want to see what the resulting XML will look like so that my post-staging phase can be developed as it will know what the data and label fields look like. How? I had this in my training...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

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

24 September 2015 FROM my_table) T1; -- Performance Improvement SELECT COUNT(1) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT my_field FROM my_table) T1; Ones that didn't work for me: Method #3: By grouping (NOT recommended for more complex queries): SELECT COUNT(my_field) FROM my_table GROUP...

• 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 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 a whole page for this is probably unwarranted so I may rename this article later to...

• 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 // What I want www.joellipman.com/category-alias/article-alias.html How? You could buy an SEF extension that does this for you or spend time tweaking your .htaccess file. Or you can take advantage of a Joomla update and do this without any coding......

• 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 Joomla instructions do not include the search engine. I need the Joomla built-in search engine to also ignore permissions so that the article can still be indexed in global search engines such as Google. How? It's been difficult to search for the right...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate and Send a CSV via Emailhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-and-send-a-csv-via-email.html

16 June 2021 email it to me every month"... How? Rather than just babble on about it, here's the code, replace what you need just noting that I'm enclosing each value with double-quotes because the values might have commas and someone may want to open this in Google...

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

Zoho Deluge: Push a value to a datetime field in CRMhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-push-a-value-to-a-datetime-field-in-crm.html

10 September 2021 A very quick article to show pushing the date and time to ZohoCRM or ZohoCreator. Why? You may have received an error that goes something like: datatype: datetime How? Here are some formatting examples: Creator to CRM: v_CreatorTime =...

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