Limit Friends Shown in the User Channel in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Monday, 10 June 2013 05:37 Written by Richi González Tuesday, 11 June 2013 12:00

Hello,

If you want to set a limit of how many friends are shown in each user channel, then keep reading this article. The question was originally posted at the Clip-Bucket forum and answered there by me, so I asked myself ‘why don’t you write an article about this?’ This article is tested to work in v2.6, but the essence is the same for any CB version or any Smarty powered template. See the following image to see the listing we are going to limit.

How to Update the License of the Official’s Website Branding Removal Plugin in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:04 Written by Richi González Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:00

Hello,

I’ll teach in this article how to update the license of the plugin once you have purchased it.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Login into the admin_area

2. In the left column, under Stats and Configurations tab, look for Website Branding Removal. Click it.

How to Limit the Number of Videos That Can Be Uploaded in a Day in Clip-Bucket v2.6

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:40 Written by Richi González Friday, 22 June 2012 12:00

Hello,

A couple of days ago, a user at the forum asked how to limit the amount of videos that can be uploaded in a day; looking at the script I found the tweak was very simple to do, so I am writing an article for all of you that would like to limit the videos to X per day. Tested in Clip-Bucket v2.6.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Back up upload.php, located in ./*

2. Open upload.php

How to Determine How Many Users Installed Your Silverlight (out-of-browser) Application

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:58 Written by Andrew Ivanov Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:00

If you have created a Silverlight out-of-browser application, you will want to know how many users have installed it. In this article, I will tell you how I did this in one of my applications.

First, we need somewhere to store number of installed/uninstalled copies. To do this, create a table in the database and update the Entity Framework model. It may look like the image below.

InDateTime – datetime, PK
IsInstantInstalled – bit (1 – instant installed, 0 – instant uninstalled)

Warning: Naming Folders Inside the Mod Folder in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 April 2012 09:21 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:00

In this quick article, I will give a recommendation when you name or rename a folder inside the mod folder in Elgg 1.8

The Mod folder in Elgg is where you upload plugins or themes for Elgg. I was developing a plugin for Elgg when I had to rename a folder, for testing purposes. I typed just numbers like I regularly do in my desktop computer. For my surprise, it seems like Elgg doesn’t like folders to be named only with numbers.

I didn’t realized that until I saw this screen while I tried to access the Plugins page inside the Administration Dashboard: