Archive for July, 2010
Business Catalyst Search by gender not working
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on July 12, 2010
Because the default search action of web app search forms is to search partial words, if you specify MALE then FEMALE will be included in the result. Buried in the description for how a Web App works is an instruction regarding using a custom field for Gender in your web app. To avoid this issue [...]
Hide Arras Theme header image on pages
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on July 11, 2010
I’m running the Arras Theme 1.4.3.1 on a site and I wanted to display the 640×250 thumbnail image on each post/page, but hide it for certain content, in this case it was all my pages. There is some PHP code you can add to two files which will allow you to set a special custom [...]
Change the Page Title on Tell-A-Friend confirmation page
This is a simple bit of code, but it’s something that may come up depending on the development you are doing. For example, in Business Catalyst the Tell-A-Friend function allows you to email a page to someone and then redirects to a confirmation page when done. Unfortunately, that page shows your account name as the [...]
Media9s website unauthorized URL
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on July 7, 2010
This computer had Trend Micro corporate installed on it, but the system wasn’t part of the network. Recently, TM started giving notices of Unauthorized URL’s being blocked. I don’t recall if it was multiple websites, but the Media9s one was definitely detected and blocked multiple times. Norman Malware Cleaner detected W32/Suspicious_Gen2.BDRIH inside C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe [...]
Remote Desktop on a different port
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on July 6, 2010
You can specify your own port for RDP (Remote Desktop) if you wish to have multiple desktops accessible from the internet. I had a client ask me about this the other day. It’s a little involved to setup initially, but well worth the hassle. I apologize if the checklist isn’t complete enough for your taste, it was [...]
Business Catalyst script: show different content logged in users
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on July 4, 2010
I was messing with a friend’s Business Catalyst CMS and managed to break his Javascript while trying to fix his top navigation. In truth, the way it was before wasn’t acceptable anyway so really I didn’t break anything that wasn’t already broken. Anyway, there was a SCRIPT which was supposed to show a link that [...]
Calculate distance between two points (Latitude / Longitude)
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on July 2, 2010
This is a useful script for calculating the distance between two points using their coordinates. Very useful as part of a Lookup function. I can see many applications for this code. Note: read the notes in the code carefully so you implement it correctly the first time. Original code location: here The code below isn’t [...]
Invite ALL Facebook friends to a group, event or page
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on July 1, 2010
Here’s a winner of a Facebook hack. To invite ALL of your friends to a Group, Event or Page: Click on Invite or Suggest or whatever. Wait for the window to open. Copy/Paste the code below into your browser address bar behind the window (where you type website addresses): javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}} [...]
Fusion Theme: Remove border style from Images IMG
My Blog currently uses the Fusion Theme from Digital Nature: http://digitalnature.ro/projects/fusion and the Thumbnail For Excerpts plugin. In order to make an image show up without their custom treatment (the border, padding, etc), you will need to add custom styling to the image via the Advanced Settings. Click on the Image and click EDIT IMAGE Click the [...]
Remove phone set from Paging Zone: Nortel
Posted by Mitch in Phone System on July 1, 2010
An overhead paging system can be really annoying sometimes. If you want to turn off the paging feature on your Nortel phone, simply enter Programming, then: TERMINALS & SETS Enter the extension of the phone you want to turn off CAPABILITIES PAGE ZONE –>Change to NONE exit, Update Note: If you’re simply concerned with the [...]