Archive for July, 2007

isValidDate JavaScript function

I’m working on a project right now that needs to validate a couple of fields to see if they’re valid dates before submitting the form so I went out looking for JavaScript code to validate dates. Most of what I found required the author to know the format that the visitor would enter the [...]

Joomla to SMF Bridge discontinued

Due to changes in how the Joomla authors are interpreting the GPL the bridge between Joomla and Simple Machines Forum is being discontinued. Since I don’t fully understand all the nuances of the GPL below is a quote from the announcement on the SMF forums along with a link to the full thread.
As some [...]

Quick mod for the Post Thumbs Wordpress plugin

Working on a site redesign, I found that I needed a plugin for Wordpress that would let me associate an image with the post that would act as a thumbnail on the pages where multiple posts are listed. I found exactly what I needed in the Post Thumbs plugin.

addthis_url [...]

How to reset Webmin password

Forgot your webmin password? If you can login to the server via SSH you still may be in luck. Look for a file called changepass.pl in the webmin directory or as part of the webmin download. At the prompt type
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:

./changepass.pl /etc/webmin username newpassword

replacing /etc/webmin with the path to the webmin [...]

Get post_meta for another post in Wordpress

For a site I’m rewriting I needed a way to get the meta data for a Wordpress post from outside the loop, and it seems that the functions that handle reading the meta data only work from within the loop. So I can up with this short little snippet of PHP code that gets [...]