Archive for May, 2010

Celebrating TWO new births at ‘corePHP’!

Saturday, May 29th, 2010 by Steven

Today, five weeks after the birth of of my son, Nicholas Anthony, I have the great pleasure of announcing two more additions to the ‘corePHP’ family! Today, we welcome Zachary Michael, born to Michael and Tiffany Pignataro, and Carter John, born to Bernard and Nicole Robbins.

Zachary was born on May 27, 2010 at 7:23 PM EST and weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces and 20 inches tall. Carter was born on May 27, 2010 at 2:23 AM EST and weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces and 20 inches tall. Congratulations to both sets of parents!

Both Michael and Bernard have contributed a lot to ‘corePHP’ as staff members. To celebrate, we are providing a special offer – 50% off of all of our products (does not include hosting or contract work). This offer will be available in conjunction with Memorial day and will end June 1st 2010 12:00 PM EST (noon).

Coupon code: 2moreatcorephp

Note: A few people have asked where to send notes or gifts for the new parents. These can be sent directly to ‘corePHP’ at:

62 East Michigan Ave.
Suite 202
Battle Creek, MI 4017

Kindest regards,

–Steven Pignataro
CEO ‘corePHP’

Salvus Alerting – be protected

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 by Michael Pignataro

Keeping up with Security Vulnerabilities is a full time job. In fact, entire industries are devoted to it. However having a high priced security person on staff is not typically in reach of small and medium businesses.

Introducing SalvusAlerting.com which offers businesses an affordable means to stay ahead of website and Content Management System vulnerabilities.
Subscribers to SalvusAlerting.com are notified within minutes of vulnerability data that matches their particular needs only, rather than combing through hundreds of unrelated security vulnerabilities. The service covers most major operating systems, Content Management Systems, popular browsers, mobile phones and networking hardware. Future plans include adding voice phone call support.

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PayToUpgrade / Community ACL

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 by Michael Pignataro

Community ACL has been providing a robust and very flexible permissions systems based on groups, roles, and functions for Joomla 1.5 for some time. While it hits every need required by administrators who want to control access to their site, it’s a manual process to give each user permissions. Some site-owners would simply love to let users automatically pay to join these groups, creating a subscription site or pay-to-access features. That’s where SourceCoast’s newest component, PayToUpgrade, comes in.

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jomCalendar now available through ‘corePHP’!

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Michael Pignataro

Looking for a complete calendar solution for Joomla? The wait is over! ‘corePHP’ is excited to announce the release of jomCalendar, the most powerful events calendar system for Joomla! 1.5 ever created. We have included all the standard features that you are accustomed to as well as a few gems of our own! Unique features include:

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YouTube Module 1.2 Released

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 by Michael Pignataro

We have been notified by several of our users that the the YouTube Module stopped working when using our option 2 in the module. After further investigation we found that Google made changes to how things are called from the Youtube API. ‘corePHP’ has updated the module with these new changes and it is now available for download.

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