How to fix Class vmLanguage not found in Virtuemart
Recently I was doing a VirtueMart upgrade from version 2 to the latest version, as well as upgrading…
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Joomla! Fix 500 error: Layout default_batch not found.
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Eight ways to detect Joomla! version from scraped html source code
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Bulk register users to a Zoom Meeting
Update June 2023: zoom.us discontinued the use of JWT for authorization, and it will be completely disabled September…
Very simple but very powerful PHP script that can save you a tremendous amount of time when you have to delete a large number of files on a server, but you don’t want to wait for hours to do that with your FTP client.
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How to fix Class vmLanguage not found in Virtuemart
Recently I was doing a VirtueMart upgrade from version 2 to the…
Eight ways to detect Joomla! version from scraped html source code
As we showed previously with WordPress, detecting the Joomla! version from its…
Processor – Run Background Processes with PHP
As a PHP developer, sometimes you would have to deal with long-running…
Bulk register users to a Zoom Meeting
Update June 2023: zoom.us discontinued the use of JWT for authorization, and…
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How to fix Class vmLanguage not found in Virtuemart
Recently I was doing a VirtueMart upgrade from version 2 to the latest version, as well as upgrading Joomla! 2.5 to latest 3.9.* version. With all of the frustrations and pitfalls that come with this process, the one thing just took me so much time to fix. I was getting this: Fatal Error: Class ‘vmLanguage’…
JPageLocker – A simple Joomla! plugin for password locking pages
I created this little Joomla! plugin when I had a request to lock some pages on a client site with a simple and straightforward approach. That meant not using the Joomla! default User permission system, but a simple page protection with a password. They previously were using some .htaccess complex redirections which with time have…
Joomla! Fix 500 error: Layout default_batch not found.
Doing Joomla! upgrades are not always the easiest and quickest things to do. Especially when you have to upgrade for few versions at once. You can encounter different issues, like messed up file systems, missing libraries, corrupted or outdated template overrides, old and abandoned extensions, etc. Recently while doing upgrades I encountered a strange error…
Eight ways to detect Joomla! version from scraped html source code
As we showed previously with WordPress, detecting the Joomla! version from its source code is also possible. Although not that straight-forward as WordPress. The best success I had was to use multiple approaches, so if one fails, the code moves to the others. It should be also noted that with some approaches the best you…
Processor – Run Background Processes with PHP
As a PHP developer, sometimes you would have to deal with long-running scripts. As you might know, in the php.ini file there is a setting called max_execution_time which by default is set to 30 seconds. Meaning any particular script could only run for 30 seconds before it exits. On some hosts, you can find it…
Bulk register users to a Zoom Meeting
Update June 2023: zoom.us discontinued the use of JWT for authorization, and it will be completely disabled September 1, 2023. So this method below is highly discouraged to do at the moment. In recent times the ZOOM app became very popular for creating and attending online meetings and webinars. As a web developer, more…
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Sometimes as a web developer, you want a simple and quick way to make a backup from a site without spending hours on installing and configuring site backup solutions like Akeeba Backup for Joomla! or Updraft Plus for WordPress. You just want to have some little script that you upload to your server, run it…
Ubuntu: How to fix Apache permissions to /var/www/ directory
As you know, very often you can be faced with one or another issue connected with incorrect or broken permissions on your site’s Apache server, so either you are not allowed to modify files and write to directories (as SFTP User), or your CMS or other application would refuse to work properly if you do…
