Johnny Shongo

July 20, 2020

Dropfiles for Joomla - A New Way of Managing Docs

Johnny Shongo

For a long time i've used Phoca Download or others in order to manage my files, these Joomla extensions were good, and did what I needed them to do, but I've always found the user interface to be lacking and in desperate need of an update. Then I found Dropfiles for Joomla. This is the easiest document manager I have used for Joomla, and exactly wh...

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December 6, 2018

Git - Access denied fatal: Authentication failed for ..

Johnny Shongo

If you receive this error message when tryinf to push / pull / clone, chances are the remote repository is private. In order to overcome this, use the following command; $ git clone -b dev https://This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./remoteGitAddress/project.git . In the code above: -b means clone from the branch named 'dev' . at the end means extract the fold...

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September 13, 2018

Git Push Error - 401 Unauthorized While Accessing...

Johnny Shongo

If you have an existing folder that you want to push, the instructions on GitLab are as follows cd existing_folder git init git remote add origin https://gitlab.com/username/MyProject.git git add . git commit -m "Initial commit" git push -u origin master However I was receiving the following error; error: The requested URL r...

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September 13, 2018

Git Rename Branch Local and Remote Securely

Johnny Shongo

1. Rename your local branch. If you are on the branch you want to rename: git branch -m new-name 2. Delete the old-name remote branch and push the new-name local branch. git push origin :old-name new-name 3. Reset the upstream branch for the new-name local branch. git push origin -u new-name Thanks to ...

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September 12, 2018

JQuery Validate Single Input on Toggle

Johnny Shongo

In order to validate a single input, use the following function; $("#inputName").valid(); Be sure to add this inside your change.() event, otherwise it won't work. $(function() { $('#toggleButton').change(function() { if ($(this).prop('checked') == true) { $("#inputName").valid(); } });})

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August 28, 2018

Bootstrap Toggle Adding Dynamic Elements

Johnny Shongo

If you are adding elements to your page dynamically you will may run into issues with Bootstrap Toggle. I was adding toggles, each with uniquie ids. Hopefully this will help; // destroy all toggles beginning with 'my-toggle' $("input[id^='my-toggle']").bootstrapToggle('destroy'); // re-initialise the toggles $("input[id^='my-toggle']").bootstrapTog...

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