Long time no see and thanks for coming back to see if there was an update!

I’m just sat here in my free period, knowing I should be doing some marking or planning, but with the morning I’ve had it’s gone out the window, which most probably means a late night tonight.

I know I haven’t updated in a long long time. And an awful lot has gone on.

Give me time to try to document it here.

November: – Started teaching High School ICT again after far too much time out of the classroom do to the sheer lack of jobs. Not Fun L

Continued with my old post of ICT teacher – forgot how much fun teaching secondary ict under an organised HOD can me! Wow! Soo many cool SOW to play with!

December:-  Still working in high school, wondering how long I will actually be employed for. Still enjoying it, pity the money situation hasn’t worked itself out yet. Hopefully soon!

January : – Still teaching in high school and realising how much I do actually enjoy it!

Fantastic SOW to work with – App development with year 9! I’m running with this for the school and making it the best it can be. Even enlisting the help of a local Android developer. Sounds cool? Will definitely need to keep people updated about this.

Anyways  January is nearly finished and done with. I do need to get back into developing my website. And sort out my planning and marking will be done soon! Promise (it’s now on my todo list!)

Hmm. What next? Another blog post or some content for the site?

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//$doc->addScript(SEXY_URL.”/sexybookmarks.js”);

if(!$this->checkCategories($article)) return;

if($this->params->get(‘manual’) != 1 && !$this->searchAntiBookmarkTag($article)) {
$article->text = $this->deleteBookmarkTag($article->text);
if($this->params->get(‘article’) == 1 && JRequest::getVar(‘view’) == ‘article’) {
$article->text = $article->text.$this->fetchSexyHTML($article);
} elseif($this->params->get(‘frontpage’) == 1 && JRequest::getVar(‘view’) == ‘frontpage’) {
$article->text = $article->text.$this->fetchSexyHTML($article);
} elseif($this->params->get(‘blog’) == 1 && JRequest::getVar(‘layout’) == ‘blog’) {
$article->text = $article->text.$this->fetchSexyHTML($article);
} else {
return;
}
} else {
$article->text = $this->searchBookmarkTag($article->text);
}

return;
}

/**
* Category check. Is the articles category allowed to print
* the bookmarks menu
*
* @param $article
* @return bool
*/
function checkCategories(&$article) {
if($this->params->get(‘include_cat’) == “”) return true;

$include_array = explode(“,”, $this->params->get(‘include_cat’));

if(in_array($article->catid, $include_array)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

}

/**
* Manually insertion of the Bookmarks Menu
*
* @param object $article
* @return object
*/
function searchBookmarkTag($text) {
$searchtag = “{sexybookmark}”;

if(substr_count($text, $searchtag) >= 1) {
$text = $text.$this->fetchSexyHTML($article);
} else {
$text = $text;
}

$text = $this->deleteBookmarkTag($text);
return $text;
}

/**
* Check for existing {nosexybookmark} in articles
*
* @param object $article
* @return bool
*/
function searchAntiBookmarkTag(&$article) {
$searchtag = “{nosexybookmark}”;
if(substr_count($article->text, $searchtag) >= 1) {
$article->text = $this->deleteAntiBookmarkTag($article->text);
return true;
}

return false;
}

/**
* Fetches the required background image
*
* @return string
*/
function fetchBackground() {
if($this->params->get(‘bgimg’) == ‘caring’) {
return ” sexy-bookmarks-bg-caring”;
} elseif($this->params->get(‘bgimg’) == ‘sexy’) {
return ” sexy-bookmarks-bg-sexy”;
} elseif($this->params->get(‘bgimg’) == ‘wealth’) {
return ” sexy-bookmarks-bg-wealth”;
} elseif($this->params->get(‘bgimg’) == ‘care-old’) {
return ” sexy-bookmarks-bg-caring-old”;
} elseif($this->params->get(‘bgimg’) == ‘love’) {
return ” sexy-bookmarks-bg-love”;
} else {
return;
}
}

/**
* Core function to add the Sexy Bookmarks menu to the article
*
* @param object $article
* @return mixed
*/
function fetchSexyHTML(&$article) {

$echo_bookmarks = false;

$j_config =& JFactory::getConfig();

if($this->params->get(‘article’) == 1 && JRequest::getVar(‘view’) == ‘article’) {
$url =& JFactory::getURI();
$perms = $url->toString();
$perms = str_replace( ‘&’, ‘&’, $perms );
$echo_bookmarks = true;
} else {
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
if ($article->access get(‘aid’, 0)) {
jimport(‘joomla.application.component.helper’);
$perms = JRoute::_($this->constructFrontpageUrl($article), false, -1);
$echo_bookmarks = true;
} else {
$echo_bookmarks = false;
}
}

if($j_config->getValue(‘config.sef’) != 1) $perms = urlencode($perms);

$title = urlencode($article->title);
$title = str_replace(‘%3A’,':’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%3F’,'?’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%C3%B9′,’ù’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%C3%A0′,’à’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%C3%A8′,’è’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%C3%AC’,'ì’,$title);
$title = str_replace(‘%C3%B2′,’ò’,$title);

$short_title = substr($title, 0, 60).”…”;

$mail_subject = urlencode(substr($title, 0, 60).”…”);
$mail_subject = str_replace(‘+’,'%20′,$mail_subject);
$mail_subject = str_replace(“’”,”‘”,$mail_subject);

$sexy_content = urlencode(strip_tags(substr($article->text, 0, 220).”[..]“));
//$sexy_content = urlencode(substr(strip_tags(strip_shortcodes(get_the_content())),0,300));
$sexy_content = str_replace(‘+’,'%20′,$sexy_content);
$sexy_content = str_replace(“’”,”‘”,$sexy_content);

$post_summary = stripslashes($sexy_content);

//$sexy_teaser = strip_tags(substr($article->text, 0, 250).”[..]“);
$sexy_teaser = $sexy_content;
$strip_teaser = stripslashes($sexy_teaser);

$site_name = $title;

if($this->params->get(‘twitter’) == 1 && $this->params->get(‘twittid’) != “”) {
$short_url = $this->getShortUrl($perms);
$post_by = “RT+@”.$this->params->get(‘twittid’).”:+”;
}

if ($this->params->get(‘twittley’) == 1 && $article->metakey != ”) {
$twittley_cat = $this->params->get(‘twittcat’);
$twittley_tags = $article->metakey;
} elseif($this->params->get(‘twittley’) == 1 && $this->params->get(‘twittcat’) != ”) {
$twittley_cat = $this->params->get(‘twittcat’);
$twittley_tags = $this->params->get(‘defaulttags’);
}

/**
* Not yet available
* if($this->params->get(‘autoexpand’) == 1) {
* $add_class = ” sexy-bookmarks-expand”;
* } else {
* //$style = ‘style=”‘$this->params->get(‘xtrastyle’).’”‘;
* }
*/
$style = ‘style=”‘.$this->params->get(‘xtrastyle’).’”‘;

$socials = “\n”.’

‘;

if($echo_bookmarks === true) {
return $socials;
} else {
return;
}

}

/**
* Builds each single menu element as a HTML list element
*
* @param string $class
* @param string $url
* @param string $title
* @return string
*/
function fetchHTMLSnippet($class, $url, $title) {
if($this->params->get(‘add_nofollow’) == 1) {
$relopt = “nofollow”;
} else {
$relopt = “”;
}

if($this->params->get(‘open_in_newwindow’) == 1) {
$tarwin = “_blank”;
} else {
$tarwin = “_self”;
}

return “\n”.’

‘;
}

/**
* Helper function to build the Frontpage url. Not necessary on article pages
*
* @param object $article
* @return string
*/
function constructFrontpageUrl(&$article) {

$needles = array(
‘article’ => (int) $article->slug,
‘category’ => (int) $article->catslug,
‘section’ => (int) $article->sectionid
);

$link = ‘index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=’. $article->slug;

if($article->catslug) {
$link .= ‘&catid=’.$article->catslug;
}

if($item = plgContentSexyBookmarks::_findItem($needles)) {
$link .= ‘&Itemid=’.$item->id;
}

return $link;
}

/**
* Delete manual bookmark tag from Text
*
* @param string $article
* @return string
*/
function deleteBookmarkTag($text) {
return str_replace(‘{sexybookmark}’, ”, $text);
}

/**
* Delete inserted bookmark tag to avoid displaying
* sexy bookmarks menu
*
* @param string $text
* @return string
*/
function deleteAntiBookmarkTag($text) {
return str_replace(‘{nosexybookmark}’, ”, $text);
}

/**
* Helper function to create short url’s for Twitter
*
*
* @param string $url
* @return string
*/
function getShortUrl($url) {

switch ($this->params->get(‘url_service’)) {
case ‘tinyurl’:
$api_url = ‘http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=’.$url;
break;
case ‘is.gd’:
$api_url = ‘http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=’.$url;
break;
case ‘rims’:
$api_url = ‘http://ri.ms/api-create.php?url=’.$url;
break;
case ‘tinyarro’:
$api_url = ‘http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?url=’.$url;
break;
}

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$api_url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}

/**
* Finds the Itemid for the correct Url on the frontpage
*
* @param array $needles
* @return object
*/
function _findItem($needles) {
$component =& JComponentHelper::getComponent(‘com_content’);

$menus = &JApplication::getMenu(‘site’, array());
$items = $menus->getItems(‘componentid’, $component->id);

$match = null;

foreach($needles as $needle => $id)
{
foreach($items as $item)
{
if ((@$item->query['view'] == $needle) && (@$item->query['id'] == $id)) {
$match = $item;
break;
}
}

if(isset($match)) {
break;
}
}

return $match;
}

}
?>

Ok so first I ran all the anti viruses and malware detectors I could think of to clean out the system and make it fresh as a daisy again
I used:

Malwareby
Hitman Pro
SpyBot S&D

After that I could run MS Security Essentials again for one final deep clean.

Solution came to me in a flash of light!

I remembered a file that I used when I was messing around with iTunes a while ago and also used the same file for messing with netw0rk paths at home.

In location C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
there is a file called hosts, now every program on windows uses this basic file to determine where to look for information when connecting to the internet. and this was where my problem lay!

the virus had written in it’s own ip and url forwarding code!

simply delete out the code or put a hash before it so it’s not read when the file is.

and TaDa! jobs a good ‘un

I mean this virus was overwriting MS security essentials! (enhanced protention nonsense – GOOGLE IT)

so i’ve ran

Hitman Pro
Malwareby
Spybot S&D

And still this thing is refusing to load facebook? It loads every other website I tested it with but still. have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?

Ta!
James!

The site that should come up is http://Hereticsnetwork.getenjoyment.net

Cheers in advance!

James

Leeds heretics network scouts!

Just installed a YouTube video embed plug in. Looking good. Site nearly ready for all the general public now

Oh resource website:
Www.howtojoomla.net
Brill!

Today. Is to try to find a solution to the contact problem. Now it’s oil ways easy just to write on a page – emails us if you want to get involved – but it isn’t always the neatest oar tidiest idea. So I’m going to opt for a form on the website. However yesterday I couldn’t seem to find a form builder that was and easy to use. To continue today