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Neon Monster’s new website launches…

The Bestiary is open to the public, the monsters are unleashed!

Watch these fluorescent monsters as they maraude around their facility but please, refrain from feeding or petting them!

There is a Doctor obsessed with neon, a chicken-obsessed Mouth, a psychedelic Psnail, a proto-robotic Robotephant and a conglomeration of eyeballs with a viscous ectoplasm loosely binding them together aka Panoptes. Read more…

Fixing “JFolder::files: Path is not a folder” Joomla

A rather strange error that can crop up in the menu manager of Joomla.

This is simply a case of Joomla looking for a folder that is not there, in this case it’s the folder images / stories, Joomla looks for this folder for the menu images and if it cannot find it, or it has incorrect permissions, it throws this error. Read more…

Split Dreams VW Campervan Hire website goes live!

Love at first sight.

Dressed to impress and oozing “cool” yep, I’m not ashamed to admit Cecil was my kind of guy! As I stood, wide-eyed and open mouthed, I realised that this was one of those chance encounters that just doesn’t happen everyday and, in the heat of the moment, as my mind tried to compute the situation, my legs took over and hurtled me towards him. My mind raced, desperately trying to verbalise… anything… and as I drew near the only words I could burst out of my mouth were “SWEET VAN!” Read more…

Preventing direct access to certain functions in your Joomla component controllers is essential. This tutorial demonstrates a simple method to prevent direct access to “helper” functions that may be in your component’s controller.

Strictly speaking, the only functions you should have in your controller are ones that deal directly with users’ requests and either alter the data or pass it on to the respective models. However, occasionally the controller may need to contain functions that will not be required to receive data to process, for example, from a form. A really good illustration of this instance would be the _sendMail function in the Joomla user component. Read more…

Something that seems to be poorly documented is how to get and set session variables in Joomla. I distinctively recall hunting high and low for some vital guidance on this when Joomla 1.5 first came out (all those moons ago!) and having no luck. Hopefully this article will help someone, at some point, with something. Read more…