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Ever get the message  "Invalid entry"  when trying to access the Joomla! backend?

The url will be   yoursite.com/administrator/index.php.

You know the password is correct,  but maybe a session cookie is getting in the way...

A recently launched Joomla 2.5 site was down this morning with the following error:

Table './xxxx_suffix/xxxx_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=INSERT INTO `xxxx_session` (`session_id`, `client_id`, `time`) VALUES ('87b1b689ed654ea16833779add58ee44', 0, '1342450283')

Repairing a database table is not difficult,  but the error causes panic for the clients and I am not always sitting at my computer....

The center column of my site, using Joomla Bamboo's Meridian template was not behaving.

The template uses javascript to calculate the height of the columns and some tabs and sliders were causing problems.

Anthony wrote:

My friend and colleague Bill from Grumpy Engineering  helped me with this one:

I added this to the php block at the head of my template:

$isIPad = preg_match('/ipad/i', trim($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));
if ($isIPad) $device="ipad";
else $device="not-ipad";

I searched the JED and the best I could come up with was to use Allvideos to create simple, single mp3 players for a website I'm working on.

The syntax of this pluggin is nice and simple:   {mp3}Name-of-file-without-extension{/mp3} or

{mp3remote}http://other-site.com/name-of-file-with-extension.mp3{/mp3remote}

or...

How I spent my Valentines' Day while my musician husband was on the road....

working on a site that needed a form to collect information along with a paypal button for payment.

I have a site that started its life in 1.7.0.  After upgrading to 1.7.3 I lost control of the order of menu items.   Numbering and saving didn't work.  Tweaking with the blue arrows only worked in some places, and then didn't seem to stick.  I "solved" the problem by using the MOVE function at the bottom of the menu items manager page, selecting an item and moving it to the same menu -- this would add it at the bottom of the list.   I repeated until all were in the order they had been in before the upgrade to 1.7.3.

Searching the joomla forum I found a few related posts in this thread:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=579&t=636152&p=2615670#p2615670

>>Infograf and I seem to have found the problem! It is a problem with JUpgrade - the column "ordering" in table "_menu" is filled with different numbers - it should be just zero's as the ordering of the menu items is drawn from the columns "lgt" and "rgt".

They then give the sql command to set all to zero.   I can't paste the code here just now.

Many in the forum were pointing at jUpgrade as the source of this problem and someone uploaded a mini component to do the above sql task.

Szaki Table is a Joomla Extension that allows sorting a table by any column header.

I used it on a client's site to make a list of educational opportunities sortable by date, location, type.   All was well until we added a column for cost and entered cost in US Dollars using the $ sign.

The entire table was replicated in the cell with the $!  

Helping a colleague today and got a nasty message about MySql  not being happy.    Googled a bit of the error message itself and found helpful solutions online.    We had to modify the joomla.sql file from the Installation folder,  changing TYPE=MyISAM   to   ENGINE=MyISAM throughout the file.  

I had a Query Tool for Postgres that let me open the .sql file.   It did not want to open in a simple text editor.

The "repaired"  joomla.sql file allowed the installation to proceed.   Apparently this was a conflict between joomla 1.5.22  and the newest versions of MAMP and MySQL.

My puzzle was that my alternative layout for a category blog would not show up as a choice in the category manager.

I turned to the Joomla Forum  and found that others had posted about their alternative layouts not being implemented, even when they chose them for a particular category.

Here's what I posted in reply: