How to Make Static Profiles in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:44 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:00

On a previous post I talked about how to make static profiles in elgg 1.7 However, it involved editing code and it wasn’t a clean solution. For that reason I decided to develop a solution, without having to edit existing code or write a new one. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create static profiles in Elgg 1.8

1. First,  log into your elgg network as an Admin and go to the Administration Dashboard. Then go to Menu “Configure->Appearance->Default Widgets”:

How to Send Welcome Messages to New Users in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Monday, 3 September 2012 12:05 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 14 September 2012 12:00

In this article I will give a step by step guide on how to send welcome messages to new users in elgg 1.8

1. To greet new users, we will use a tool called Welcome Message for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

3. After that, please sign in as an Administration and go to the Administration Dashboard:

How to Create a Simple Message Debugging Script for Your Website in PHP

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 June 2012 04:12 Written by Richi González Monday, 25 June 2012 12:00

Hello,

Whenever I am developing, I need to know where the script fails, what is currently doing, what values variables have, etc, therefore I always use a simple messages/errors script for debugging that will throw all the messages and errors to the top of the page.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Create/Open a PHP file

2. Declare our variable $msg as an array

How to Enable Developer Friendly Error Messages

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 April 2011 10:15 Written by Naveed Ashraf Saturday, 30 April 2011 12:52

By default, Internet Explorer shows error messages that are not developer friendly. They are friendly error messages which are nice for a client; but for a developer, they make it difficult in troubleshooting their code. Turning on developer friendly error messages is easy and can help in developing a dynamic website.

This step by step guide will show you how to enable developer friendly error messages. These instructions are for Internet Explorer 7, but are very similar for other web browsers as well as earlier version of Internet Explorer.

How to Get More Detailed Errors from IIS

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 09:45 Written by Shai Ben-Naphtali Tuesday, 17 November 2009 08:05

On the new version of WebSitePanel, you can easily do this through the control panel! Click HERE to find out how!

Related documents:

1. Error Reading Web Site Information – WebSitePanel or DotNetPanel

Say you work on your website on whatever language that may be, for this example, I’ll use ASP.

Then you encounter an error message, for this example, say the dreaded 500 – Internal server error (picture 1).

picture 1

So you sit there thinking “Ok, thanks! That doesn’t give me a clue on what my problem is!”