Hi ! I have pictures in a database and i want to read it out and display it as a picture. However i get strange long charakters as result. my code: <?php /** * @version 1.0 $ * @package HelloWorld * @copyright (C) 2010 BlaBlbb * @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL */ /** ensure this file is being included by a parent...
Hi Guys, I have followed these instructions at Balupton to the word but I cannot seem to get this lightbox working. I managed to get this working on another Mambo project last year but I cannot get this working on Joomla and I was wondering if it could be that there is a clash between Moo Tools and jQuery. Although this should not be th...
Hi Guys, I have found some solutions to this error and tried implementing them but none of which has worked and hope that some here at SO might have a different answer. I get this error, "Warning! Failed to move file" when I try install modules into my new installation of Joomla here: http://sun-eng.sixfoot.co.za Here's some solution...
OK, so my Joomla app is in MVC format. I am still a little confused about where to put certain operations, in the Controller or in the Model. This function below is in the controller, it gets called when &task=remove. Should the database stuff be in the Model? It does not seem to fit there because I have two models editapp (display a ...
I noticed that Joomla uses less secure var type for variables in classes Why is this? In my own components,plugins,modules should I follow this convention or use a more secure private, public and protected keywords. ...
Hallo! I need to synchronize 2 Databases. I have a Windows 2000 Server with Xampp (schoolserver). Do you know some ways to realize this? I thought following: 1.Write the data in the php script or c# script 2. let something like a cronjob(dont know the windows form) run and check both databases. Is there a better way? ...
I am trying to run a java command like this in a PHP Joomla Component. It works, however, the files generated from the command are written to /administrator and I want them to be written to the location where the Java command resides ie. /administrator/com_mycomponent/java/MyJavaApp.jar //run the command $javaCom...
Here are some sample methods from my Controller class. Now when the user clicks the New button $task=add is sent to the Controller and the add() method is called. As you can see it does not really do anything, it just creates a url and forwards it off to the correct view. Is this the correct way of doing things in the MVC pattern? ...
Hey folks, I'm on a current web project, on which there's a working PHPBB3 installation in (root)/phpbb3 All other files of the page are directly on (root)/ and are manually programmed. now I have to refactor the whole page with Joomla and want to integrate the PHPBB3 directly into the main page, so that header, menu and footer of t...
I have a custom Joomla component and a router for building my SEF URL's for use within the site, and everything is usually shiny - internally, all of my links look and act fantastic. I recently route a controller action that sends a list of links through email, and I've noticed that my URLs are coming out.... funky - hopefully someone c...
I want to create some files in my component and then delete them. How to I got hold of the $tmp_path variable that was set by the user in the configuration.php file? ...
We are a team of many developers working on a website that uses both Joomla and custom PHP scripts. The problem is that there are multiple developers working on various features which need to update information in Joomla (adding modules, changing existing ones or changing settings) and when one developer changes something, he usually mak...
I've just written joomla module. This is basic but working version of my moule. I want to 'effectize' it, so i need to work with some css. Elements of my module has own classes so i can style it very easy. But where to put CSS? ...
I need to build a news scroller module for a website in Joomla (http://www.expedicionantioquia.org/idures/index.php) to replace the one made with flash on the right column. I was thinking on doing it with JQuery to allow the tabbed navigation, but i'm a little bit lost, partly because i haven't found a good tutorial about building joomla...
I've heard that mootools is installed with Joomla and you can use it from within any extension you build without having to include it again, is that correct? I've been learning some JQuery and i wanted to build a module with it but now that mootools is included i'd rather do it with it. Is there a good tutorial on using mootools inside ...
works 90% with firefox 2% with IE or Chrome. Get error that it can save the query result - any ideas? Running on a godaddy hosted site so limited control of mysql ...
Hi everyone, I'm working on a site in Joomla! and on the homepage, at the top of the article, it comes up with a h1 of the website name. The pagesource says (Note it's not the article title.) Any idea how to get rid of it? Thanks, Steph ...
*I've tried to implement a trial login auto-configuration using IEM with joomla for one week. But i've stacked seamlessly. I am really fade up with the IEM xml doc because i can't use them properly. I was tried with CB component but the expected plugin couldn't be found. If anyone held the CB plugin ( Community Builder plugin for Inters...
I am writing a component for Joomla and there is a specific task that requires an update to some stats every so often. I would like to setup a cron job to do this. The only problem is that requires the user to go and setup the cron to run the php update stats script. On installation of the component how can I automatically setup a cron ...
I followed the "third option" in the instructions at: http://docs.joomla.org/Make_a_Section_Menu_Item_drill_into_a_Category_Blog_layout and the results are as expected, except... when I drill into a category to see the blog layout... the articles are in a single column for the first article, and then it's two columns after that... and i...