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how to add feedback form in Joomla 1.5.15 website

hi, I am new to Joomla and using joomla1.5.15 hosted on godaddy. Currently no new/additional compenents/extentions have been installed. I want to add a feedback form (with few text/check boxes, radio buttons etc) in my site, which should also send an email to some email id without storing information in database. Kindly guide me how to ...

How to convert Msword file into a text file and storing it in Mysql - php joomla

Hey i want to convert MsWord doc file into text file - any code sample. And then i want to store it to in database MySql - any code. And also how to retrieve it in a same format tht was in Msword file using php joomla ...

OpenID Authentication 2.0 in Joomla 1.0.x

Is there any easy way to bring OpenID authentication into a Joomla 1.0.x website? I am particularly interested in Google authentication (so I'll want OAuth &/or OpenID Attribute Exchange as well later), but for now just authentication will work. I know Joomla 1.5.x supports OpenID natively but I have to stick with 1.0.x for now. Any idea...

How do I make textarea a TinyMCE in Joomla?

I have a component and I want to make a textarea on the admin backend interface use the TinyMCE editor: How do I reference the TinyMCE that is being used by other components (instead of duplicating it) 2.) How do I hook into the page init or some place where I can let TinyMCE do it's magic (of if Joomla provides a way) Thanks ...

how to use the template for a custom component

hi, I've created a custom coponent for joomla and I've created a menu which uses that component and set a template for that menu. The thing is when I go to the url test.com/index.php?option=com_mycomponent, it still uses the default template instead of the template that I set it to. in short: The component works, only it's using the w...

How to get Joomla to change swf depending on language being used?

Hi everyone! I'm new to this whole Joomla thing, and I'm trying to get an swf to change depending on what language the user is using. I'm using a language plugin which includes only two languages: English and Finnish. I've noticed when a user changes the language the URL changes with the language for example: index.php?lang=fi so in php ...

Proper way to store user information

The standard Joomla registration forms has a limited set of fields available. What's the "correct" method for adding the user's first name, last name, and phone number to the registration project? I can certainly modify the Joomla core, but that's less than ideal. A nickel for your thoughts. ...

joomla SEF shows differrent links in Homepage than inner pages !!

I'm enabling Joomla SEF , and get the following results when I link to an article from a homepage (frontpage) article: anywebsite.com/component/content/article/26/141-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4 but when linking from other articles I get the result I want which is : anywebsite.com/Categor/141-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4 and the link is both equal which is : index....

BreezingForms Integrator Finalize Code and $this->execPieceByName('ff_InitLib');

I've started working on a Joomla! project (I'm mainly a C#/ASP.NET kind a guy). I'm using BreezingForms and have created forms, got them working, but now I need to do some additional code in the "Finalize Code" section. I need to access form elements via BreezingForms(FacileForms) API. Here's what I'm doing, but it chokes: // load the ...

How to divide post on many pages in joomla cms

How to break article for many little pages? with navigation at page footer? for example: pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ...

<folder> tag in Joomla module XML File

Hi my problem is want to use tag in xml file of joomla module . i don't want to include each and file in XML file . Thanks for the help ...

How do I modify the Joomla search plugin to search tables I have added to my database?

Most of my content is in a new table I have added to JOOMLA cms. I have to add a search plugin that can search this table. Here is aq basic table search that I can't incorporate into a search plugin. Select * FROM `jos_table` WHERE Abc = 'xyz' ...

Add page item to either Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress

I just want to design this very simple website. Basically there are multiple pages A, B, C... and each page has item A1, A2.. or B1, B2... These items follow fixed HTML template (table,image) and only specific content fields (name, body text..) can be change in the back-end. Backend users can add new pages or new items each page. Does a...

Joomla adding category description in product section

Hai I have a joomla web site. I have implemented the Djcatalog. But there is no way to enter the category description. I want to enter the category description and will display only at the category page not in the product details page. Is it possible? Or is there is any way to do this? ...

What is the use of the below given tables in Joomla Database?

What is the use of the below given tables in Joomla Database? jos_core_acl_aro jos_core_acl_aro_groups jos_core_acl_aro_map jos_core_acl_aro_sections jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map ...

mainframe in Joomla

The hello world tutorial for Joomla states: $mainframe is a global variable in Joomla that has lots of useful methods attached to it. How do I find out what these methods are? I tried searching through their documentation, but I couldn't find any clues. ...

Page-specific logic in Joomla

I am trying to enable JavaScript in a Joomla template to behave differently depending on the page. In particular, I have set the Key Reference as that appears to be the most appropriate value I could find for this purpose. Unfortunately, I can't seem to access it in my code. I tried: $this->params->get("keyref") and a few other variat...

Erroneous Matches with Regular Expression

$regexp = '/(?:<input\stype="hidden"\sname="){1}([a-zA-Z0-9]*)(?:"\svalue="1"\s\/>)/'; $response = '<input type="hidden" name="7d37dddd0eb2c85b8d394ef36b35f54f" value="1" />'; preg_match($regexp, $response, $matches); echo $matches[1]; // Outputs: 7d37dddd0eb2c85b8d394ef36b35f54f So I'm using this regular expression to search for an a...

Href link with OnClick event

Hi, i am having a link like below where on click of that twitter , i need to open the twitter page with the message given in $markme_ddesc but instead when i click on the link , it simply moves to twitter.com without opening in a new window and with the message.. <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.twitter.co...

Explanation of alias attribute in Joomla

What exactly is the alias attribute of menu items used for in Joomla? In particular, are they suitable for uniquely identifying pages? Update: I just realised that articles have alias' as well. I think that article alias' will be more useful Related questions This is a followup of this question. ...