ASP.NET version of Joomla
Does anyone ever found/used an ASP.NET application similar to Joomla? I need to set up a quick and dirty CMS on a Windows Server and our client doesn't want us to use something else than ASP.NET. Thanks!...
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What makes Drupal better/different from Joomla
I talked to a few friends that say Drupal is amazing and that it is way better than Joomla. What are the major differences/advantages. ...
Joomla Blog/Wordpress Integration
I'm looking for a wordpress-like blog interface to put inside a Joomla hosted site. The admin interface of Joomla is quirky enough and hard enough to use that daily updates are infeasible. What I am looking for is an easy-to-use posting interface that supports multiple users with different accounts/names, a tagging scheme, and easy f...
How do I make a component in Joomla display as an article?
More specifically I am trying to make the mailto component show within my template; the same way as an article does. By default the mailto component opens in a new window. So far I changed the code so it opens on the same window, but that way the whole template is gone. Any suggestions? ...
How do I set the Content-type in Joomla?
I am developing a Joomla component and one of the views needs to render itself as PDF. In the view, I have tried setting the content-type with the following line, but when I see the response, it is text/html anyways. header('Content-type: application/pdf'); If I do this in a regular php page, everything works as expected. It seems tha...
Which PHP-based CMS or framework has the best documentation?
I'm part of a group that's considering a PHP-based system to serve a community for communications purposes, including collaboration, event calendars, and a photo gallery. We're also loking into social networking integration (particularly Facebook) and maybe payment processing for community events. The two main CMSs we're considering ar...
Joomla tutorial
Hello, Does anyone know where I can find a very quick tutorial about writing Joomla 1.0 components/modules? I've been playing with it for hours yesterday and I still don't know what the difference is. My current (and urgent) task is to modify an application written for Joomla 1.0 (I still don't know if it's an application or what it is b...
How can I make part of a Joomla template editable via the CMS interface?
Title says most of it. I have inherited a Joomla site and the client wants part of the main template (a feature-type box) to be editable via the Joomla backend. I guess really it is a content item that never gets displayed as its own page, but as a part of all pages. Is that possible? Thanks. EDIT: By editable, I mean as a piece of...
Getting the first item out of a For loop
I am writing my own Joomla component (MVC), its based heavily on the newsflash module, because I want to display the latest 5 content items in a sliding tabbed interface, all the hard work is done, but I am having real difficult getting content out of the for loop. Here is the code I have so far default.php <ul id="handles" class="tabs...
PHP Replace Images with GD Library Resampled Images in Joomla
I am the tech intern for an online independent newspaper, and the writers on the staff are not tech-savvy. They don't quite understand how web pages work, and often they upload and include images straight from their digital cameras, or scanned from original media. These images become a burden when there are 10 images on the front page ...
How do you get the current user object in Joomla 1.5?
In Joomla 1.0, the current User object was stored in a global variable called $my. This doesn't exist in Joomla 1.5 any more - how do I get that object? Also, how can you tell if the user hasn't logged in? ...
good component to password reminding in joomla
Hi, I would like to change the default behavior of Joomla's password reminding mechanism. I would like to be provided with checking of the strength of a password and (optionally) with captcha capabilities. I was wondering if there's a free component for Joomla which I could install and use out-of-the-box. ...
Redirect joomla url's to wordpress
Hi. I moved an ex-site based on joomla to wordpress. Import worked fine but the problem is that the old links don't work anymore. Because there is only 50 or so articles, i thought will be a good idea to put a rule for each post (in .htaccess). Well... Not always things are like you want, so redirects dont work at all :( Old joomla lin...
How do i add additional text to a joomla contact page
This is my first time using joomla. I don't know if I'm using the concept of a Contact in the wrong way, but I have a Contact Us menu that i've created and I've added the contact details in. I'm looking to add a sentence oe two of text above the contact details & the e-mail contact form. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this v...
How to set an HTTP environment variable from PHP for Bugzilla?
The bugzilla (perl-based) system has a feature to login automatically by using a http server environment variable. If you fill in the right ID or username, you are automatically logged in. My server runs Joomla (PHP-based) and has all the information about who is logged in. It runs bugzilla within a sub-frame. So, how can I set this en...
Passing credentials between sites
I am running two different sites on two different servers with two different domains. One site is running Joomla, the other Moodle. I have configured the Moodle server to base its authentication on the users table on the Joomla site, so we have an authoritative source of user information. What I'd like to do is this: after someone signs...
How to get the path to the current template in Joomla 1.5?
I'm writing a component and would like to insert images from the template folder. How do you get the correct path to the template folder? ...
Joomla main menu html output
I'm trying to edit the output joomla main_menu module so I can make a custom dropdown menu. At the moment it currently outputs html like this: <ul class="menu"> <li class="active item1" id="current"><a href="#"><span>First Level Item </span</a></li> <li class="parent item63"><a href="#"><span>First Level Item Parent</span></a> <ul> ...
Joomla problem: where does "$mainframe->getCfg('lang')" come from?!
Hi all, Happy New Year! :D In Joomla: $mainframe->getCfg('lang'); will return "english" (i think this is a default value), anyone can tell me where defined it? can i change it? Thanks ...
Automatically copying new articles from a website.
Hi, I am building a website, one section of which will display public notices from a different website. (The notices are public, no copyright violation) What I need to do is to automatically update my site whenever there is a new notice on the target site. I am using Joomla as my CMS. Any ideas? Update - Unfortunately no RSS feed :( ...