The articles below contain bits and pieces of wisdom about keeping the website going day-to-day. The hope is that these will be helpful to any future webmasters of the FHA website.
Unlinked Examples {fhaperson 2517 !in, !st } provides an informal name, and a street address. {fhaperson 749 !fn (!st), !ph } shows a name, street address, and phone number. This article's id=5998. {fhaperson 904 !fn} should be the name Linked Examples {fhaperson 2517 !inl, !stl } provides an informal name linked to an...
As an exercise I decided to try and write a Joomla plugin that could be called from and Joomla article and would replace the plugin call with information about the individual from the FHA (online) Directory. To use, insert the following "code" into any Joomla article: {fhaperson...
Then the site was upgraded to Joomla version 3, the template used for earlier versions no longer worked, and the original author was not interested in converting it. It occurred to me that this problem would likely persist across future Joomla version changes, so I...
Adding to and editing events in the Village Calendar is documented in this PDF file. The source for the PDF file is here....
Background: Every page on the website is known within the Joomla framework as an article. Articles are structured in a hierarchical manner using categories and subcategories (to any depth). For example, News is a category, with Events/News, Outside the Village, and Notices as subcategories. Group...
The FHA website has a number of ways Fearrington affinity groups can have a “presence” of their own. This document will spell out the mechanics of helping a new group get started. Bulletin Board and FHA Newsletter Anyone (with a website login) can use the website's Bulletin...
We all know that there are many and varied ways determined trackers like marketeers and stalkers can access anyone's personal contact information, even if the information is carefully guarded. The Experian hack, which exposed personal information for some 140 million people demonstrates that the information...
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You may have heard the term "object-oriented programming". This refers to a programmong style that recognizes common situations that arise in a programming application, and utilizes a programming language's support for "objectivizing" these common situations is such a way that the same code can be...
When someone needs to be able to create, edit and delete website articles on the FGA website their User record must be updated to give them these privilege levels. This is very simple to do: Logon to the administrator section of the website. Open the...