Month: February 2007

February 23, 2007 / Mambo / Joomla

Removing A Mambo/Joomla Template

Now there’s a misleading title but I had cause to ask a Mambo site to output some info without a template. Sadly it didn’t want to do that – although if you know another method, please leave a comment…

The official method is to call www.mysite.com/index2.php but that still parses the page and adds an alternate stylesheet and header information. It’s good, but not perfect.

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February 17, 2007 / Technical Discussions

Buying Expired Domains

There’s a stack of people out there buying up expired domains and selling them on, or using them to build sites related to their core business (which is sometimes buying expired domains).

I’ve noticed that there are some dos and don’ts associated with this:

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February 12, 2007 / CakePHP

A Picklist Component for CakePHP

I needed to have a table holding all my picklists, to make them easier to edit and manage. It’s a large application so there will be lots of drop downs and radio buttons, states and status fields.

I started with my picklist table

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