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10Dec/110

Forcing Moodle admins to use English but regular users use another language

Add this to your theme’s PHP pages wherever you want this functionality. Add it above the <html> tag … in our case we force regular users to see the site in Farsi, but admin users see it in English. We also hid the language menu (comment out “echo $OUTPUT->lang_menu();”).

Here’s the code:

<?php

function curPageURL() {
 $pageURL = 'http';
 //if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
	 $pageURL .= "s";
 }//other way to detect SSL??
 $pageURL .= "://";
	 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
	  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	 } else {
	  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	 }
 return $pageURL;
}
$url = curPageURL();
$admins = get_admins();
    $isadmin = false;
    foreach ($admins as $admin) {
        if ($USER->id == $admin->id) {
            $isadmin = true;
            break;
        }
    }
    if ($isadmin) {
		if(
		!isset($_GET['lang']) ||
		(isset($_GET['lang']) && ($_GET['lang'] != 'en'))
		){
			if(strstr(curPageURL(),'lang=fa')){//if not home page
				$url = str_replace('lang=fa','lang=en',$url);
        		header('Location: '.$url);
			}
			else{//URL must not have an = in it, therefore it has GET vars and has a ? as well. It is possible to have a ? without ='s though, so we check for = and not ?.
				///header('Location: '.curPageURL().'?lang=en');
			}
		}
    } else {
        if(
		!isset($_GET['lang']) ||
		(isset($_GET['lang']) && ($_GET['lang'] != 'fa'))
		){
			if(strstr(curPageURL(),'=')){//if not home page
				$url = str_replace('lang=en','lang=fa',$url);
        		//header('Location: '.$url);
			}
			else{//URL must have an = in it, therefore it has GET vars and has a ? as well. It is possible to have a ? without ='s though, so we check for = and not ?.
				//header('Location: '.curPageURL().'?lang=fa');
			}
		}

Filed under: e-Learning, Sundry, Web Design, Web Development / Programming No Comments

12Sep/110

Front Page Slideshow Link Problem

FPSS is a great slideshow addon for Joomla, Drupal, and standalone slideshows.
They have a new version for Joomla 1.7, with a much improved interface. When it comes to linking slides, it seems you can choose to display links for all slides, or not. But what if you want links on some slides but not others? In such a case, if the user did not supply a URL, the link will say “http://www.yoursite.com/URL”. You could enter “#” or “javascript:;” as the URL, but one cannot expect non web developers to remember to do this. The user should not be required to take additional action just to NOT link a slide.

We wrote a quick fix for this. Open up the default.php template file for the FPSS layout you’re using. We used JJ-Oobs so we opened up /modules/mod_fpss/tmpl/JJ-Obs/default.php. Right after “foreach($slides as $slide):” insert the following

if($slide->link == 'URL'){
$slide->link = 'javascript:;';
}

We used a “javascript:;” URL rather than “#” because this way if you slideshow is far down the page, clicking it will not take you back to the top of the page … using “#” can conflict with named anchors but “javascript:;” does not.

Filed under: Drupal, Joomla, Sundry, Web Design, Web Development / Programming No Comments

2Apr/110

Buh-bye, IE6

Microsoft now officially seeks to persuade people to stop using Internet Explorer 6:

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