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’…
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…
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…
In recent times the ZOOM app became very popular for creating and attending online meetings and webinars. As a web developer, more often than not, you would be required to interact somehow with their APIs. Either to register users to a meeting or to retrieve some users’ or registrants’ data for further processing. Recently I…
On a recent project I was working on, I was assigned a task to detect the WordPress version on a bunch of supplied URLs. I did some research, had a better look at the source code that WP produces, and did some testing. I found out that there are three simplest and most reliable ways…
Recently I encountered an error with one of my client’s sites’ WP Mail SMTP plugin setup. We’ve correctly set up the SMTP credentials in the plugin but the mail was never sent. After investigating the server error logs we have found some errors pointing to “wrong instance” of PHPMailer class in one of the other…