Internet baking went down last night, and now when I try to access the website I get this error message…

Let’s hope that everyone’s financial information is safe.

As I write this the only place reporting on this problem is here…

http://www.eworldpost.com/us-bank-internet-banking-failure-disturbed-lot-of-people-8547.html

I will update when I learn more.

UPDATE: Here is US Bank’s explanation for the Internet Banking problems yesterday and today.

http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/about/important_message.cfm

This still does not explain how the error above occurred.

The following are the necessary code snippets that allow you to make this possible.

I hope to add a little more explanation to these soon.

controller.php

function saveorder()
{
	global $option;
	// Initialize variables
	$db	=& JFactory::getDBO();
	$cid	= JRequest::getVar( 'cid', array(), 'post', 'array' );
	$total	= count( $cid );
	$order= JRequest::getVar( 'order', array(0), 'post', 'array' );
	JArrayHelper::toInteger($order, array(0));
 
	$row =& JTable::getInstance('article', 'Table');
 
	// update ordering values
	for( $i=0; $i < $total; $i++ ) {
		$row->load( (int) $cid[$i] );
 
		if ($row->ordering != $order[$i]) {
			$row->ordering = $order[$i];
			if (!$row->store()) {
				JError::raiseError(500, 
                                     $db->getErrorMsg() );
			}
		}
	}
 
	$row->reorder();
 
	$msg 	= 'New ordering saved';
	$this->setRedirect('index.php?option='.$option, $msg);
}

views/all/tmp/default.php

<th width="8%">
	<?php echo JHTML::_('grid.sort',   'Position', $row->ordering, @$lists['order_Dir'], @$lists['order'] ); ?>
	<?php echo JHTML::_('grid.order',  $this->rows ); ?>
</th>

views/all/tmp/default.php

<td class="order">
        <span><?php echo $this->pagination->orderUpIcon( $i, ($i > 0), 'orderup', 'Move Up'); ?></span>
	<span><?php echo $this->pagination->orderDownIcon( $i, $n, ($i < $n ), 'orderdown', 'Move Down'); ?></span>
	<input type="text" name="order[]" size="5" value="<?php echo $row->ordering; ?>" class="text_area" style="text-align: center" />
</td>

$last_item = end($array);
$last_item = each($array);
reset($array);
foreach($array as $key => $value){
	// code executed during standard iteration
	if($value == $last_item['value'] && $key == $last_item['key']){
		// code executed on the 
                // last iteration of the foreach loop
	}
}

Note that in the if clause I check to make sure that both the key AND the value of the last item iterated match. If you were to check simply the value you could end up getting a match before the last iteration.

The above code should help you when trying to do something different on the last element, last value, last iteration, last loop, or last item of a PHP foreach loop.

1. Log into the Joomla back-end at http://<yoursite>.<com/org/net>/administrator
2. Once logged in navigate using the upper navigation bar to Content > Article Manager
3. Click on any article in the manager to open the article
4. On the right column click on the bar that says “Meta Information”
5. The area will expand to show a few input areas. The ones we are concerned with are labeled “Description” and “Keywords” respectively.
6. In the “Description” input type a one sentence summary of the content in this article. You could to two sentences but one is really best.
7. Now in the “Keywords” box type in 2-3 keywords for the article. The words should be separated using semi-colons e.g. acts media; web design; web development; Also, notice that you can type key phrases not just words. You should try to keep the keywords at 3 or below.
8. When you are done inputting this information click on “Save” or “Apply” in the upper-right of the screen.
9. Great! Search Engines will now be able to better index this page of your site.

Also, I created a ZIP archive of the resulting dump statement.

<property name="local_database_host" value="localhost" />
<property name="local_database_username" value="root"/>
<property name="local_database_password" value="password" />
<property name="local_database_name" value="bzftp_beta"/>
<property name="backup_directory" value="C:/Databases/" />
<property name="backup_file" value="bzftp_beta" />
 
<target name="createDBArchive" description="-->> Create database dump archive file">
	<exec dir="" executable="C:/xampp/mysql/bin/mysqldump.exe">
		<arg line='-u "${local_database_username}" -r "${backup_directory}${backup_file}.sql" ${local_database_name} jos_categories jos_sections jos_content jos_content_frontpage jos_content_rating jos_components jos_menu jos_modules jos_templates_menu'  />
	</exec>
 
	<zip destfile="${backup_directory}${backup_file}.sql.zip" update="true">
		<fileset dir="${backup_directory}">
			<include name="${backup_file}.sql"/>
		</fileset>
	</zip>
</target>

I finally figured it out and the rather simple code snippet is below…

 
//Gives access to all plugins in the content folder
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
// This variable is passed by reference so we need it later
$campinfo = "";
//I created my own trigger below, but "onContentPrepare" would work fine here
$dispatcher->trigger('onCampPrepare', array ($id, &$campinfo));
//assign are variable to be acessed in the template
$this->assignRef('campinfo', $campinfo);

I will use some simple code examples so you can get an idea of how it works.

Prerequisite knowledge

• Basic understanding of Joomla component MVC

1. Create your global model

Create a file called “global.php” and place it in the “models” folder of you component.

Insert the following code…[global.php]

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die ('Resctricted access');
jimport('joomla.application.component.model');
JModel::addIncludePath(JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'models');
class CustomComponentModelGlobal extends JModel
{
	var $data = null;
	function getData()
	{
		if(empty($this->data))
		{
			$this->data = "My Global Data";		
		}
		return $this->data;
	}
}

2. Modify Controller Code

We will modify the code of the display method in the controller to make our global model available in all of the views.

controller.php

function display()
{
	$view = JRequest::getVar('view');
	if(!$view){
		JRequest::setVar('view', 'default');
	}
 
	$model = $this->getModel('Global');
 
	$document =& JFactory::getDocument();
	$viewType	= $document->getType();
	$viewName	= $view;
	$view = & $this->getView( 
                             $viewName,
                             $viewType, 
                             '',
                             array( 'base_path'=>$this->_basePath));
	$view->setModel($model);
 
	parent::display();
}

3. Access the Global model in the view

view.html.php

function display($tpl=null)
{
	/*
	 * The model can now be accessed in the view
	 * in either way below
	 */
 
	$data =& $this->get('data', 'Global');
        $globalModel = $this->getModel('Global');
        $data =& $globalModel->getData();
 
        //assign the data to a ref for output in the html
        $this->assignRef('myGobalData', $data);
}

One problem I had was that on the homepage of my site I wanted to hide the title, so that it would not say “Home” in big black letters. The PHP file that needed to be edited in order to make this happen could not be accessed in the regular Appearance->Editor area. This is because the post on my homepage is a “Page” and not a regular “Post”. So the following is how to edit the default Page template for the Carrington Theme.

1. Using an FTP client grab wp-content/themes/carrington-blog/content/page.php from your site’s directory.
   Note if you are using the default WordPress theme this equivalent file can be found under wp-content/themes/default/page.php.
2. Make necessary edits to file and then upload it back to your site.

On my site I wanted to hide the title (<h1>) tag on my homepage. The homepage had an ID of 2 so I used the following PHP code to achieve my desired result.

Note: to find the id of a post or page in the WordPress admin look at the URL string in your browser when editing a post or a page. It will have somewhere in there the word post=<a #> “a #” is the id of that post or page.

<?php if(get_the_ID() != 2){ ?>
         <h1 class="entry-title full-title"><?php the_title() ?></h1>
<?php } ?>

If you didn’t want page titles to ever appear you could just delete everything between the <h1> tags.

It turns out that the domain name I was interested in was indeed available, and owned by nobody. I was thus able to scoop it up for a normal domain registration fee of $10.00 or less. So be warned traderdomains.com, traderdomains.org, traderdomains.net, etc. is a complete scam.

The main thing that is different design wise is that it has the ribbon like other 2007 Office programs. They must have done some significant work to make it snappier because it definitely is. I’m guessing using the 64bit version helps as well.

Here are some of the great features that it has.

1. It is 64 bit.
2. Does not crash as much as my 2007.
3. Organizes emails into conversations. This is similar to gmail. (at first I was annoyed but now I like it)

The quickness of it vs. 2007 and that it has a 64 bit version is a huge improvement, but beyond that it doesn’t seem to me there are too many other reasons people will want to upgrade. For me these two are enough, but others may think about holding off.