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Joomla: What's the Object to get value from current content, if Registered only?

Hi, I need to know if the content being displayed to the user, is for registered only, not public. I think I can't do this trough JDocument or Mainframe, etc. I'm trying to figure this out. Any help on this subject? Thanks for your attention, Have a nice day! ...

How can I create component in Joomla 1.5?

I need to make pages in Joomla, and my template has my header and footer. I intend to use components as pages where I enter my Html code. How can I make these simple components? ...

SVN can't add Apache created folders

I am building a Joomla site that is managed by SVN. When extensions are installed via the Joomla admin panel, Joomla will create folders that I want to add to SVN, but these folders are created by the Apache user and I do not have write permission or root access, which prevents SVN from adding '.svn' directories within. Is there any work...

How to run a script on server?

Hi, The defualt charset for all the datebase tables is swedish3_latin_ci I want to change it to utf8_unicode_ci I have found a script called phoca which can automatically change all the collations to utf8 How can I run the script? Thanking you in advance. ...

How can I make pages with custom Html easily in Joomla?

Our customer wants to use Joomla! and I have no prior experience of it. I have been looking thru Joomla! documentation and tutorials over net, but I just cannot find how can I make just static html pages and menu. Joomla! adds some tables (for layout!) in your articles and it of course will ruin my own html. ...

Question on building a Joomla web site for data driven content.

I have developed a demo ASP.NET web site with less than 10 pages. The application connects to a MySQL (not SQL Server) database to populate tables and fields and do CRUD operations on the database. In the final version, PDF suppport, email support, registration and other stuff. My questions are: I am thinking of porting this applicati...

Joomla Site Templates: Architecture Advise

Our client provided us with html templates to turn into a Joomla template, problem is their designs are not Joomla Template friendly where a lot of the html design are not consistent with structure. Currently the only solution we have is applying a template structure pattern that fits the most amount of their design and have seperate j...

Trying to stop brute force login attempts in Joomla using onLoginFailure() function. Need help.

I'm trying to develop a module for Joomla 1.5 that identifies brute force login attacks and shuts them down. I found a function called onLoginFailure() that gets called when a login attempt fails. From within that function, I'm trying to figure out which username was used for the login attempt. After 5 failed login attemps, I want t...

Joomla: How to identify components on the front page?

Hi, I am new to Joomla. I know that you can view the position of modules that appear on the page by using '?tp=1'. But let's say I don't know what each module that appears on the front page is. That means I don't know their ID, their name or what they are referred to as at the back end. I just saw the front page and used to '?tp=1' to...

How can I link main menu links to submenu links in Joomla!?

I have main menu with sublinks, so when you click mainmenu link, it should go to default submenu link. For example: Main menu: Homepage | Information Information submenu has Contact and Location selections and Contact should be active when Information main menu link is activated. ...

How to add custom fields for users (like Company:) in Jommla 1.5 ??

I've been searching on the internet for some kind of tutorial to do this and I've only found this one that seems to do the work ( http://tech.nabtron.com/add-custom-field-for-user-data-joomla-1-0-tested/97/ ) but the problem is that this tutorial is focused in Joomla 1.0 and I'm using Joomla 1.5.. the files are not in the same place and ...

Is there a Java web framework similar to Joomla?

I got some experience on Joomla and I like their community and Joomla's plug and play. They have a lot of tested components working well. I remember my first steps: easy to start and the only requirements are good old Apache and PHP. On the other hand my only - but massive - complaint is I have to use PHP. I cannot get comfortable with P...

Need help with Joomla's SEF Option - Already tried .htaccess and configuration.php

Hello, I need help with SEO Configurations in Joomla. I have been tasked to handle an existing Joomla site for my company. It is a replicate (with different contents) of another joomla directory in the same server. The funny thing is, on the other Joomla site/directory, the SEO configuration is set to Yes for all 3 options (SEF, rewrite...

Joomla Mailto Component unable to send mails occassionally

Greetings, I will certainly hope someone will be able to provide some enlightenment to my problem. Currently, I have 2 joomla sites, layout and menus are a replicate of the other. I noticed that on both Joomla, I will occasionally encounter "Unable to send mail" after a form submission. Is this the fault of my server, or the fault of J...

Joomla Filter Menu

Hi, I need to display a menu in Joomla and remove 2 items from it. I am very new to Joomla can someone please help me ? Its like displaying all menu items in list except for 2. ...

Need a service that build calendar (iCal, outlook) links

The users of my Joomla based site often need to create an artice where the post some appointment dates. Now they would like to have an easy way to add calendar links for the most popular calendars ICal, Outlook, Thunderbird, Google Calendar. Do you know of a simple way how they could do that? Maybe there is a joomla plugin for that? Or m...

Create new pages for docman in joomla from a C# program

I was volunteered to write a application that will take a mp3 file, upload it to the server create a document that references the file and fills out a template and uploads the document for the web admin to approve it. I am a fairly competent c# developer but I have never even touched web development stuff. I have no clue where to begin ...

Joomla - calling the username with javascript

I am working on a simple game to add to my joomla site, done in html/javascript. I want to be able to track user scores, I figure the easiest way to do that is to have the scores saved by username... but I can't figure out how to have joomla provide the javascript with the username? ...

Does joomla have search for content?

I am trying to find a search feature that searches all contents, including articles, links, posts, etc. in Joomla. Where is it located? I am talking about search feature in administration page, not home page. I want to be able to figure out where the content is coming from and its location. ...

How to store and display date in dd-mm-yy format in Joomla?

I am developing a component in Joomla. Through my component I want to store timestamp to "lastaccessed" field. My problem is that, if I am simply storing the date, then MySQL is displaying it as "0000-00-00 00:00:00" I am using the PHP date function like this: $row->date_lastaccessed=date(); How can I store and retrieve the date in ...