We're writing an API that allows users to sign up for a Joomla account through an external portal. We want to do the password and username checking on the portal before submitting it through the API. I've dug through the Joomla code and can't seem to find where those two fields get validated. Does someone know where to look? Joomla c...
I have a MySQL table with an auto-increment ID field. I'm filling the table with data from one source, with its own unique ID (starting from around 4 million up). I also want to insert my own data but don't want it to conflict with the IDs already in the database. Ideally I'd just insert it all at a lower ID. However, I have to use a fu...
I'm having problems with a Joomla install (problem exists in both 1.5.13 and 1.5.15) that won't order articles in a category or section blog layout. I've tried setting the sort order on the layout manually to all the different sort options but it has no effect. Ordering on the front page works fine. Any ideas? ...
I'd like to create a menu item in Joomla that points to one article when the user is logged out, and a different article when the user is logged in. I tried creating two menu items, and make them conditional by setting the access level. However, with that strategy, I can only make the logged-in item appear after login; I found no way to ...
hi!! i've a navigation bar like the one below..for each it changes the background color on mouseover and mouseout and there is a lag to load those images which looks awful :( i wanna know how to preload those images so that i can save that lag time and make it work smoothly.. <ul class="nav"> <li class="Today"><a href="/" class="Activ...
I have a custom component in which I want to have a breadcumb to help the user navigate the previous page visits. The basic feature in my component is to show our product releases. The workflow is: The user select the Products menu item. A new page is shown that displays the product names. The user select a specific product name. A ne...
Hi I have a joomla installation with a contacts form. Specifically, there are two contacts with position, email, name, phone. However, joomla seems to insist on having two empty columns "Mobile phone" and "Fax" that I can't seem to get rid of. Neither contact has a mobile phone or fax, and they are disabled in both sets of contact param...
Hello, I am developing some basic html pages, i am setting colors of text usimg color code #e7eddf it seems fine in windows but seems different in mac. Can you explain me why its happening and also suggest me some work around for that?? I am using firefox on both the mac and windows ...
hi! i'm using joomla and want to restrict the user profile image size(dimension). it is default to 10Mb but i want to restrict the image dimension something like 240x320 and below can be uploaded.. thanks.. ...
hi!! i'm new to joomla and i wanna know how can i install modules(or whatever they call)..i downloaded Jcomments from Joomlatune and i donno how to install or configure it..the documentation is also not good plus the screenshots are in a different language.. can someone help me in installing that module? also, how can i enable comments f...
Hi all, I need to choose a forum component for a new Joomla installation and I'm wondering which one should I use: JoomlaBoard Joomla phpBB Joomla SMF Any other you might want to suggest Among the requisites, I will need to dynamically create/delete forums and to add/delete members, so a forum that offers high level API for these ta...
hi! The copy of joomla i'm using is edited by the super administrator to not to show the unnecessary menus like installing/uninstalling modules etc etc.. but now, i want to set the permissions of Jcomments and i can't find the menu anywhere to do that.. i found a simple settings page using administrator/index.php?option=com_jcomments&ta...
I have some joomla articles. some values in that article has to be updated by data obtained through a soap call to other site. Is there any plugin available for joomla by which i can embed custom php inside articles?? How can i do this.?? ...
Hi, I am implementing a website with Joomla! and I am using a component named Jumi. This component basically allows you implement a PHP script and integrate it with the Joomla CMS. With this component, I created a PHP script which acts as a simple booking system. The user fills in information, such as name, surname, type of booking, etc...
I have just installed the Joomla Jukebox component last night. The player does not work when I turn on SEF URL within Joomla (I have version 1.5.x). That is, when I press play on the player (its a swf) the song does not play, but the song plays once I switch back to non-SEF'ed URLs. Have anyone experienced this issue or a similar proble...
Basically I have a joomla instance with an article that uses URL rewriting. http://example.com/kids-and-family/185-summer-camp.html goes to the corresponding article when typed into the url. I now want this URL to be accessed by using http://example.com/camp This seems to be the bulk of the .htaccess file: ########## Begin - Joomla!...
I have a Mysql database of 500+ Real Estate Listings which I am looking to load into an empty Joomla Extension (this may apply to any PHP Script). I have copied the structure and convention of each table the extension uses - with the idea of either exporting or simply deleting the original tables and replacing them with mine. Upon test...
I am running an instance of Joomla on my server. When I load the site in any other browser the page loads fine, however, when I load the page with IE6 i get the following error. "internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://example.com", Operation Aborted." Popup: "Continue loading This Page?" I press OK. Sometimes it takes...
Can anyone recommend me a really good tutorial for learning joomla, most of which I found were spam ads just to get people to click several ads without learning anything. I'm using joomla for the first time and I'm sort of confused with certain terms because they are all alike. For ex: Section and category almost same .. and so on .. ma...
i need to create a newspaper site for a client , joomla is good enough to create such a website ? is there other options for creating newspaper sites ? thnx ...