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    The Blogosaurus is a company technology blog from Louisville Web Development firm MIB Solutions. The issues on or blog range from our personal use of Wordpress, Joomla, PHP and Database programming, AJAX, Flash, and other web development languages and tools we use on our client's projects.

    The Blogosaurus was born in 2008, and continues to be a resources for Internet professionals and Google searches alike.

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    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘)’ in ja_tabs.php on line 31

    Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

    Are you getting the following error when trying to figure out JA Tabs with Joomla?
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘)’ in plugins/content/ja_tabs.php on line 31
    Then please follow this guide:
    Open plugins/content/ja_tabs.php file, at about line 31, find following code:
    function plgContentJA_tabs( &$subject=null, $params=null )
    and change to:
    function plgContentJA_tabs( &$subject, $params=null )
    If you [...]

    JavaScript Not Working in IE?

    Monday, April 13th, 2009

    While recently updating MIB Solutions‘ website, I wanted to use JavaScript to produce a very interesting function which would great the visitor with a special message depending on the time of the day of the user. I wanted to use PHP, but since that is server-side (thus producing only the time of my server) I [...]

    Remove ‘Powered By YouTube’ on Google AJAX API YouTube Videos

    Thursday, April 9th, 2009

    A client of mine recently installed the Google AJAX API Video found here (which uses the Google API Search, also found in the Google Maps embed function everyone uses for their websites), but wanted to remove the ‘Powered by YouTube’ copy found below the videos. While we could use a Javascript fix for this, it’s [...]

    Free Internet Explorer Screen Shots

    Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

    Designing websites to work in Internet Explorer is the worst part about being a web developer. Luckily I found a snazzy website which views any url in four different Internet Explorer versions. To view free Internet Explorer Screen Shot website please visit here.

    What Screen Resolution to Design For?

    Sunday, March 15th, 2009

    A few years ago the word on the street among developers and inside the halls of the design firms was to design your website to fit within a 800 x 600 screen resolution. At the time many grandparents and older Moms were using such a screen size, and it was also a few years before [...]

    List of Posts by Authors in a Wordpress Blog

    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

    I had to recently create a list which would link to every author in a mult-author blog, and had no idea how to do it. Luckily I was able to get a quick reply on the Wordpress forums when I was looking for a list of Authors plugin. Instead of using a Plugin, I simply [...]

    One Category on Front Page in Wordpress

    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

    I just learned a quick and easy way to show just one category on the front page while working on the French artist Thomas Guichard’s new website. I have all of his work set up in a category in his Wordpress CMS website. Categories are Scultpure, Drawing, and Audio Works. I set it up like [...]

    Joomla Module Placement Guide

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    While working with my recent Joomla project with GovTechConnect, I needed to know where all of my module positions are very easily. I was able to lurk on some forums like this one which provided the best way to view your Joomla module placements:
    Simply type this in after your domain:
    /index.php?tp=1
    For example, I was viewing my [...]

    Wordpress Image Caption CSS

    Thursday, January 15th, 2009

    The bad thing about producing a free Wordpress theme to download, is every year the theme will be missing something once Wordpress comes out with newer Systems. Newer systems means new code which was left out in the previous themes designed for the older Wordpress version. Wordpress now has the ability to create image captions [...]

    Manage Your Advertising With Ease

    Saturday, January 10th, 2009

    Wordpress is such an amazing system to use, that when a task that could be large, such as working with advertising spots in your website is easy if you know a bit of php code. With my recent project for traveling Navy Seal at Seal Adventures, the client wanted five advertising locations throughout his website.  [...]

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