http://www.fayax.com/blog Fayax Blog Wed, 12 May 2010 16:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Life! http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/life/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/life/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:19:53 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=113 When in tough times we start to question the meaning of life. Specially if you are alone all the time and have very few friends that are getting fewer by the minute since they are busy with their own lives. They (everyone) just move on eventually, once your own life comes to a standstill.

So the eternal question comes to mind. What is the meaning of life?

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/life/feed/ 0 Guitar Chords BB Code for vBulletin http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/guitar-chords-bb-code-for-vbulletin/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/guitar-chords-bb-code-for-vbulletin/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:36:23 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=106 The following steps will allow you to create a neat little BB Code for your guitar chords postings in vBulletin 4cms.

Admincp> Custom BB Codes > Add new BB Code

In the fields provided add the following:

Title: Chords
BB Code Tag Name: chord

Replacement: <pre>{param}</pre>

Example: [chord] Your chords here[/chord]
Button Image (Optional): /images/misc/chords.gif

Remove Tag If Empty        : Yes
Disable BB Code Within This BB Code        : No
Disable Smilies Within This BB Code        : Yes
Disable Word Wrapping Within This BB Code: Yes

Click Save.

Upload the image attached to this posting to the above mentioned location /images/misc/

chords.gif This is the little icon which will show up on top of the editor box.

BB Code made by : http://www.icarusforde.com

For visual directions see pic below.

visualvbbbcode.jpg

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/22/guitar-chords-bb-code-for-vbulletin/feed/ 0 How to change the vBulletin 4 CMS banner/logo http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/18/how-to-change-the-vbulletin-4-cms-bannerlogo/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/18/how-to-change-the-vbulletin-4-cms-bannerlogo/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:57:15 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=101 Make your banner the size of the width of the forum.

Upload the banner to the location:

sitename.com/<rootpath>/images/misc/<filename.ext>   (no angel brackets)

Go to the admincp

Admin Control Panel > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > dropdown: StyleVars > Image Paths > Title Image

And change the name of the file there to match your file name – including changing the extension.

Save and reload your website.

If you have any questions – feel free to contact me. For an example please take a look at http://fe9.org

Admin@fayax.com

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/18/how-to-change-the-vbulletin-4-cms-bannerlogo/feed/ 0 how to delete a phpBB user http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/05/how-to-delete-a-phpbb-user/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/05/how-to-delete-a-phpbb-user/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:27:31 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=88 This was tested in phpBB3 and it works.  Specially you can use this for spammers who come with names that are vulgar or userIDs that you do not want showing in your list of users.

Go to Users&Groups / Prune Users
Click the “Find a Member” link
Checkmark the users to delete.
Click “Select marked”
Select Delete
Submit.

Source: Brf from phpBB community.

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/05/how-to-delete-a-phpbb-user/feed/ 0 A collection of opensource resources… http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/03/a-collection-of-opensource-resources/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/12/03/a-collection-of-opensource-resources/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:21:36 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=78 I only add items to this list where I have checked and intalled the software myself or a site that I have been to and found it to be very useful for opensource hunters.

This blog entry is often edited to add more and more to my collection.

  1. SourceForge.net – http://sourceforge.net – what can I say about this site. Check it out for yourself.
  2. phpBB – http://phpBB.com – Extremely Powerful forums and great support community.
  3. Joomla – Websites with one of the largest number of extensions/addons.
  4. Tufat – Fabulous site with a bunch of php scripts. Some free and some for $5.  If you buy more than one you get major discounts too. Cheap and good I call it! Check out his dating php script called osDate. its Free!
  5. Simple Machines Forum – http://www.simplemachines.org/ - Excellent forum software. I have only tested it but I am not using it anywhere yet.
  6. Drupal - http://drupal.org/ – A good CMS which is compatible with Joomla. In some cases even better.
  7. ForumMatrix – http://www.forummatrix.org – Excellent site to compare forum softwares out there. Most forum software are free and opensource. If you are not sure which forum to put on your website or which forum is the best – then this site is the place for you.  Also check out this link but I am not sure how often it is updated :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_%28PHP%29
  8. OpenSourceCMS – http://php.opensourcecms.com/ – This website has a huge collection of OpensourceCMS infromation. If you are looking for opensource software for different purpose, this site might have the information for you.
  9. More coming…. Check back again please.

Feel free to leave me comments and more links as I build this list.  I will add your entries (those that I approve of to my list)                                         :)

Fayax the Blogger

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# Click the corresponding table that stores username and password information: phpbb_users
# Click Browse located towards the top of your screen so that a list of users display
# Find the account of user that needs to be changed (eg. Admin)
# Click Edit
# From the user_password row, click the Function pull down menu and choose MD5
# In the box to the right of MD5, replace the existing encrypted password with your new password in plain text
# Click the GO button located towards the bottom of the page

Done!

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/11/05/lost-your-phpbb-admin-password/feed/ 1 how to make a conf call with iphone http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/26/how-to-make-a-conf-call-with-iphone/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/26/how-to-make-a-conf-call-with-iphone/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:24 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=70 The iPhone allows you to create a conference call with the ability to talk with up to five different callers.

To make a conference call, perform the following steps:

1. Make your first call.

2. Tap Add Call and call another line. The first call is put on hold while you are doing this. If you want, you can talk on the second line privately before merging the calls.

3. Tap Merge Calls to bring the current line into the conference with the other caller(s).

Perform steps 2 and 3 to add more calls to the conference.

If you have an incoming call that you would like to merge into the conference, tap Hold Call + Answer, then tap Merge Calls.

Source

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/26/how-to-make-a-conf-call-with-iphone/feed/ 0 Why this blog? http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/20/why-this-blog/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/20/why-this-blog/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:47:10 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=66 Well, in the beginning this blog was meant to just add another feature to my website but now I see that this can accumulate a great collection of information for myself and others. I can refer back to my own blogs and use the information over and over again.

Hopefully it is helping others too.

Feel free to leave comments.

Fayax.

]]> http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/20/why-this-blog/feed/ 0 “think” BBCode for phpBB forums http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/17/think-bbcode-for-phpbb-forums/ http://www.fayax.com/blog/2009/10/17/think-bbcode-for-phpbb-forums/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:48:19 +0000 admin http://www.fayax.com/blog/?p=49 In 10 easy steps.

Here is how you can install a this new cool “think” BBcode for your phpBB forum.

First of all this is what the BBCode will look like if you have followed all the directions.

thinkbbcode looks like this

think BBCode looks like this

1. TO get started sign into your ACP in your phpBB forum.
2. Click on the “POSTING” tab. (on the left the BBCode should already be selected)
3. Select “BBcodes” on the left menu.
4. Click on “Add new BBCode” button (on the bottom right)
5. In the BBCodes usage section – paste the following code:

[think]{TEXT}[/think]
6. In the HTML replacement section – past the following:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;" >&nbsp; {TEXT} &nbsp;</div><img src="./images/think.gif"></td></tr></table>
7. In the Help line section paste this:

[think]Creates a thinking cloud above the head of a thinking smiley[/think]
8. Put a check mark in “Display on posting page.”
9. Click Submit
10. FTP the following smiley to your root/images folder: think

Voila! You are done.

Code information from StarTrekGuide.com

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Most of the free Wordpress themes out there are having Creative Commons Attribute 2.0+ License. This means that you can modify the theme in anyway you want but you have to attribute the work in the manner specified by the author.

If you download the free WP themes from other sites using this type of license, you’ll notice that most of them have the footer section encrypted.

Many of you would like the freedom to change how the footer looks. With an encrypted footer, you can’t change things like adding a “Contact” link or an RSS button. You might also want to check whether there is no malicious code in the encryption.

The following is the screen shot of how the encrypted footer looks like:

This post shows you how to decrypt the footer encryption. The good thing is you DON’T need any decoding software nor programming skill in order to do that.

Sounds simple. Yes it is! Please follow the few steps below to remove the footer encryption:

Step 1
Open index.php
Find the include code for the footer. Normally, the footer include code shows like this:

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Step 2
Add this comment code on the top and bottom of the footer code:

<!--Footer code starts here-->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

<!--Footer code ends here-->

Save the file and upload it to the server.

Step 3
Load the theme in a browser. View the source code by clicking
View -> Source (If you view in IE) or
Ctrl + U (If you view in Firefox)

Step 4
The source code in between <!--Footer code starts here--> and <!--Footer code ends here--> is the source code for the footer.

Now, open footer.php and replace the encrypted code with the actual source code.

You can then start to modify the footer in anyway you want.

No matter what you modify, please make sure that you give the credits back to the author!

Author
This article is originally written by Brian L. You are free to redistribute this article but please link back to this page with this title: How to remove footer encryption?

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