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        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 03:24:30 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Restoring Backup error</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2245832#post2245832</link>
          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I am moving a site to a new server. When I try to do a restore from a backup on the new server I get the following error message</p>
<p><span>MySQL Error: BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY or JSON column 'template_id' can't have a default value</span></p>
<p>Can you advise</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:44:27 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Uploading to Media Library</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2245446#post2245446</link>
          <description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Jerry</p>
<p>I have enough trouble getting the client to use their CMS, so I think FTP might be a step too far for them :-)</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:08:33 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Uploading to Media Library</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2245444#post2245444</link>
          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>Is it possible to upload a file to the Media Library and overwrite the existing file if they are both the same name? This would be convenient when the file is used across a number of pages.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 04:35:31 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Updating the css file</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2239728#post2239728</link>
          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Damon</p>
<p>I have it almost working now. However the background image isn't changing it only ever shows the image of the first record.</p>
<p>I am using the following code in my css</p>
<p>// load record from 'guided_tours'<br />  list($guided_toursRecords, $guided_toursMetaData) = getRecords(array(<br />    'tableName'   =&gt; 'guided_tours',<br />    'where'       =&gt; whereRecordNumberInUrl(1),<br />    'loadUploads' =&gt; true,<br />    'allowSearch' =&gt; false,<br />    'limit'       =&gt; '1',<br />  ));<br />  $guided_toursRecord = @$guided_toursRecords[0]; // get first record</p>
<p>--------</p>
<p>&lt;?php foreach ($guided_toursRecord['images'] as $index =&gt; $upload): ?&gt;<br />url("&lt;?php echo htmlencode($upload['urlPath']) ?&gt;") <br />&lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;</p>
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<p>I have tried a few variations of this but I cannot get it to change the image. Can you see what my problem might be?Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 06:13:40 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Updating the css file</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Damon</p>
<p>Did all that, but when I copy the files over to the server all styles are lost. So the page display completely wrong.</p>

<p>Paul</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:55:16 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Updating the css file</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Damon</p>
<p>How do I link to this new file style<strong>.php</strong></p>
<p>The original link to the css is &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"&gt;<br />What should it be now?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:49:19 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Updating the css file</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I have a background image that is defined in the css file. After I upload an image in CMSB what code do I use to update the css file?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:01:46 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Permalinks and anchor links</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I'm trying to use an anchor link with a page that uses permalinks.</p>
<p>The link goes to a url structure like this, but it doesn't work:</p>
<p>case-studies/case-study-1/#example</p>
<p>Is it possible to using anchor links when using the permalink plugin?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:22:24 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Radio button issue on Firefox</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I have the following code that allows users to subscribe to a mailing list:</p>
<p>&lt;label&gt;<br />yes &lt;input name="mailing_list" value="1" &lt;?php checkedIf(@$_REQUEST['mailing_list'], '1') ?&gt; type="radio" /&gt;<br />no  &lt;input name="mailing_list" value="0" &lt;?php checkedIf(@$_REQUEST['mailing_list'], '0') ?&gt; type="radio" /&gt;<br />&lt;/label&gt;</p>
<p>It works okay in IE and Chrome, but not in FF. When a user clicks "No" in FF the "Yes" button is highlighted.</p>
<p>Any ideas on what the problem could be?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Using Recaptcha code</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p><b>Hi</b></p>
<p><b>I wanted to add the google recaptcha code to an enquiry form I have.</b></p>
<p><b>The code for the form in headers I have is:</b></p>
<p>&lt;?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;?php</p>
<p>  /* STEP 1: LOAD RECORDS - Copy this PHP code block near the TOP of your page */</p>
<p>  // load viewer library</p>
<p>  $libraryPath = 'cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php';</p>
<p>  $dirsToCheck = array('/home/domain/public_html/domain.com/','','../','../../','../../../');</p>
<p>  foreach ($dirsToCheck as $dir) { if (@include_once("$dir$libraryPath")) { break; }}</p>
<p>  if (!function_exists('getRecords')) { die("Couldn't load viewer library, check filepath in sourcecode."); }</p>
<p>   list($officeRecords, $officeMetaData) = getRecords(array(</p>
<p>    'tableName'   =&gt; 'office',</p>
<p>  ));</p>
<p>  // load records</p>
<p>// process form</p>
<p>  if (@$_REQUEST['submitForm']) {</p>
<p>    // error checking</p>
<p>    $errorsAndAlerts = "";</p>
<p>    if (!@$_REQUEST['fullname'])                { $errorsAndAlerts .= "You must enter your full name!&lt;br/&gt;\n"; }</p>
<p>    if (!@$_REQUEST['email'])                   { $errorsAndAlerts .= "You must enter your email!&lt;br/&gt;\n"; }</p>
<p>    else if(!isValidEmail(@$_REQUEST['email'])) { $errorsAndAlerts .= "Please enter a valid email (example: user@example.com)&lt;br/&gt;\n"; }</p>
<p>               if (!@$_REQUEST['country'])                 { $errorsAndAlerts .= "You must enter a value for country!&lt;br/&gt;\n"; }</p>
<p>               if (!@$_REQUEST['message'])                { $errorsAndAlerts .= "You must enter a message!&lt;br/&gt;\n"; }</p>
<p>    // send email user</p>
<p>    if (!$errorsAndAlerts) {</p>
<p>      $from    = $_REQUEST['email'];</p>
<p>      $to      = "info@domain.com";</p>
<p>      $subject = "Email form submitted";</p>
<p>      $message = &lt;&lt;&lt;__TEXT__</p>
<p>You've received an email enquiry</p>
<p>Full name: {$_REQUEST['fullname']}</p>
<p>Country: {$_REQUEST['country']}</p>
<p>Phone: {$_REQUEST['telephone']}</p>
<p>Email:     {$_REQUEST['email']}</p>
<p>Message:   {$_REQUEST['message']}</p>
<p>The user who sent this message had the IP address {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}.</p>
<p>__TEXT__;</p>
<p>      // Note: The above line must be flush left or you'll get an error</p>
<p>      // This is a PHP heredoc.  See: <a href="http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc" rel="nofollow">http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc</a></p>
<p>      // send message</p>
<p>      $mailResult = @mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from");</p>
<p>      if (!$mailResult) { die("Mail Error: $php_errormsg"); }</p>
<p>      //</p>
<p>       redirectBrowserToURL('/confirm.php?success='.urlencode('Thank you for your enquiry. '));</p>
<p>    $_REQUEST = array(); // clear form values</p>
<p>    exit;</p>
<p>    }</p>
<p>  }</p>
<p>?&gt;</p>

<p><b>The first line on the form is:</b></p>
<p>&lt;form method="post" action="?"&gt;</p>
<p><b>The instructions on recaptcha are to change this to:</b></p>
<p>&lt;form method="post" action="verify.php"&gt;</p>
<p><b>The code for verify.php is:</b></p>
<p>&lt;?php</p>
<p>  require_once('recaptchalib.php');</p>
<p>  $privatekey = "your_private_key";</p>
<p>  $resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,</p>
<p>                                $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],</p>
<p>                                $_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],</p>
<p>                                $_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);</p>

<p>  if (!$resp-&gt;is_valid) {</p>
<p>    // What happens when the CAPTCHA was entered incorrectly</p>
<p>    die ("The reCAPTCHA wasn't entered correctly. Go back and try it again." .</p>
<p>         "(reCAPTCHA said: " . $resp-&gt;error . ")");</p>
<p>  } else {</p>
<p>    // Your code here to handle a successful verification</p>
<p>  }</p>
<p>  ?&gt;</p>

<p><b>At the point where is says </b>// Your code here to handle a successful verification<b> do I need to copy some of the code I have in my header over to verify.php? If so what should I copy over?</b></p>
<p><b>Thanks</b></p>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Enquiry form question</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>We have an enquiry form on our site. When a form is completed and sent, a message appears on the page to confirm this.</p>
<p>The code is:</p>
<p>$errorsAndAlerts = "Thanks for your enquiry. A representative fwill deal with your enquiry.";<br />$_REQUEST = array(); // clear form values</p>
<p>Rather than displaying the message I would like the users to be redirected to a different page and then have the message displayed there.</p>
<p>Can someone help me with this.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:20:43 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Enabling gzip compression</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2218869#post2218869</link>
          <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I have a site hosted with godaddy and to enable gzip compression they recommended I place the folloiwng code at the top of every page in my site.</p>
<p>&lt;?php if (substr_count($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip')) ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); else ob_start(); ?&gt;</p>
<p>I'm not a php programmer so I just have a couple of queries about using it:</p>
<p>1. Will there be any conflict with the CMSB code I have on my site?</p>
<p>2. Would there be any security issues with using this code?</p>
<p>Thanks for any advice</p>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:49:08 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Re: [greg] How to add search feature on my site.</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2218705#post2218705</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi Greg<br /><br />'viewerUrl'       =&gt; 'detailsPage.php'<br /><br />What code goes in to 'detailsPage.php'<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Paul<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:09:36 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Re: [Tom P] Error on preview</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2215665#post2215665</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi Tom<br /><br />I'm populating it with the following:<br /><br />// load records<br />  list($latest_newsRecords, $latest_newsMetaData) = getRecords(array(<br />    'tableName'   =&gt; 'latest_news',<br />  ));<br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:06:42 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Error on preview</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2215661#post2215661</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />On a client's site running CMSB I have a news ticker that displays a list of the news items. They added a new news item and then clicked on preview (this was the first time they had used preview). Since they did this the news items do not display in the ticker.<br /><br />When they clicked on preview thay went to a page that couldn't be displayed - http://www.doaminname.com/cmsAdmin/newsDetail.php?preview-9999999999<br /><br />Is it possible that dping the preview has had some effect on the ticker?<br /><br />Thanks for any help<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:22:41 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Displaying News Items</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2214868#post2214868</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />I wonder if anyone could give me some advice or recommendations. I want to display news items on the home page of my site. Rather than display them in a list I want them to appear as fading in/out one at a time or scrolling down. I would like the user to be able to click on the news item and then be brought to the news detail page.<br /><br />Any advice would be appreciated.<br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:00:03 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>shopping cart</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2214697#post2214697</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />I would like to add a shopping cart to a client's site who is currently using CMSB. I now there has been mention of a cart plugin being developed, so if that's not too far off I wouldn't mind waiting until it is ready. Failing that can anyone recommend a cart that integrates well with CMSB.<br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:03:56 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Using list menu as navigation on detail page</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2213857#post2213857</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi <br /><br />I've set up a mutli menu type called products. I want the list of items in this menu to be displayed as a navigation menu on the content page. <br /><br />The page to display is productsList.php. The code I'm using is: <br /><br />// load records<br />  list($productsRecords, $productsMetaData) = getRecords(array(<br />    'tableName'   =&gt; 'products',<br />  )); <br /><br />I want to display the first record details e.g title and content when the user first goes to to menuList.php and then they can select what page to go to from the navigation list. I need to modify the code to achieve this, but it hasn't worked correctly for me yet. Can anyone help. <br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:31:27 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Creating Drop Downs</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hi,<br /><br />I'm sure this has been answered many times before so if someone can point me in the direction of a thread that answers it I'd be greateful.<br /><br />I'm creating a site for a holiday home company so they will have properties from many different locations.<br /><br />I therefore need be able to add new locations in CMSB and when they add a new property I want them to be able to select the location from a drop down in the editor.<br /><br />Hope that makes sense !<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:52:40 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Error uploading a pdf file</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2213384#post2213384</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />I've been trying to upload a pdf file using CMSB called:<br /><br />first &amp; second name.pdf <br /><br />It doesn't upload and I get an error coming back saying:<br /><br />Uploaded file 'first &amp;amp; second name.pdf' contains invalid characters! <br /><br />Is there a fix for this?<br /><br />Thanks<b><br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:03:16 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Re: [Jason] Update xml file using CMSB</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2211871#post2211871</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Thanks Jason, <br /><br />A bit of tweaking and it worked perfectly !<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:22:41 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Update xml file using CMSB</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2211866#post2211866</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />Can anyone suggest the best way to update an xml file using CMSB. The xml file passes image details to a Flash file that displays rotating images. <br /><br />It's to be used on a new section so I also want to be able to limit the number of images that are displayed, say the three most recently added.<br /><br />Thanks for any help.<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:14:50 -0700</pubDate>
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          <title>Re: [Jason] Link to a pdf</title>
          <link>https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2208739#post2208739</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Hi<br /><br />Can we upload a file, for example brochure.pdf to a directory called downloads and then just create a link on the front end wherever we want and point it to downloads/brochure.pdf. <br /><br />And when a new pdf is uploaded it just gets called brochure.pdf overwriting the existing one.<br /><br />Thanks again.<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:10:31 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Re: [Jason] Link to a pdf</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hi Jason<br /><br />Would you have a sample of the code to use on the front end.<br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:55:59 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title>Link to a pdf</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hi <br /><br />What's the best way to upload a pdf file and have a direct link to it on the front end of my site. A new version of the pdf will be uploaded reguarly so I want the old file to be overwritten by the new one. The link on the front end should then update automatically. <br /><br />Thanks<br />]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:06:43 -0800</pubDate>
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