Hi, I have a Hindi magazine website hosted on Joomla. Though helpful from publishing point of view the site was a maintenance nightmare. Joomla is so much susceptible to hacker attacks. My host will often shut down my site due to bots attacking my website. Recently I relaunched the site as a new Wordpress based site on a different name....
Hi I have a problem with IIS7. I have a website that was previously under Wamp server, now I've moved it under Window server with IIS7. My problem is that now when i try to open a link that opens a page in an iFrame it always load the same page and not the correct one. Anyone can help me? Thanks ...
What would be the best way to put an image map in a joomla site? Would it be good to make it part of the template or to make it as an article? ...
I want to convert a running joomla 1.0 based website into joomla 1.5 based site. For design i will choose any good 1.5 template but How i can import 1.0 databse into 1.5 site's databse. my new joomla 1.5 site will have different url than old 1.0 joomla site. I want to convert whole things of old 1.0 site to 1.5 site ...
We're currently working on a major overhaul for our public website, transitioning from a pretty nasty static site to a new CMS. For some reason or another, Joomla was selected as the CMS despite the company being a very heavy MS shop. This would be fine, however we have multiple ASP.NET web applications which are currently running on the...
I know you probably don't get many questions like this... I am working on a component that I want to be able to deal with the non-SEF URLs whilst SEF is enabled, whether it be the built-in SEF or something like sh404sef. Does Joomla store the ORIGINAL non-SEF URL anywhere ie. index.php?com=com_fred&view=homepage? I've found that any ...
Since this doesn't touch a real problem of mine I'm somwhat uncertain, if it is even worth to be asked here. However maybe some of you would like to share your opinion on that. In general I have to admit, that 'better' means anything and nothing at all at the same time. So I probably should be more specific, but I tried not to overflow...
Im creating a custom template. On the front page I want to display an article and a readmore link. The article is called "Article 1" and is in the section "Test" catagory "Cat". Its access level is public. How can i show the first 100 words of the article, and its title, on the front page and have a readmore link under it which will po...
This is the error: Warning: require_once(/home/exhibit/public_html/includes/version.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/exhibit/public_html/includes/joomla.php on line 71 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/exhibit/public_html/includes/versi...
I have Section caled SECT_X and in in the that section, 32 different categories. Each of these categories are in the menu and each menu entry should show a single page with a templaet that has 3 columns. Each of the columns should contain different article or a block of text that is unique to its section. Example data: SECT_X -> ...
We are looking for a way to publish articles in different languages, including differences in writing direction (RTL/LTR) and of course character sets. The maintainer of the current site works with Mambo/Joomla, but has already found severe restrictions in terms of extensibility. A similar question has already been asked, but I will add...
I am learning Joomla and doing examples out of books. Im working on an example that does not throw any errors but doesnt do what I want. The example is to create a suggestion form that posts the data to itself which is then put into a database. The form does not return to itself tho! When the submit button is pressed it takes you to h...
I am trying to use Joomla to create a website that allows users to do the following: submit links to external html search through the external websites based on category, rankings, etc. display the websites in multiple iframes simultaneously ( like google gadgets) limit access to certain external websites by user customize users ho...
I am looking for some advice on the best way to retrieve information from a web page (my own site) and then search through that information to find a certain text. Keeping in mind that some of the servers that run PHP/Joomla do not have cURL enabled, I don't want to cause any unexpected errors. I've looked at both fopen() and file_get_...
How to import data from a database to Joomla CMS? I have a database with lots of data I want to use in my new website. An ideal solution for me would be a Python/Perl/PHP API that would know how to do Joomla' basic routines: adding/removing a section/category/material/menu/module; changing properties of existing entities ...
I want to assign the same category to multiple sections in Joomla. E.g. category cats will be child of the sections domestic-animals and adorable-anmials. Is there a component or a trick to achieve this? ...
Hi, I need some recommendations ... I was asked to built a web portal/blog that looks like http://iwannabemom.com/(they use wordpress) the reason i am using joomla because i have some components that i need to implement on joomla instead of using wordpress. what is the components for (joomla 1.5): 1. top news (can be scrolled). I know...
Below is the code from a plugin for Joomla. It works on it's own and it's purpose is to detect external links on the page and force them into new browser windows using _blank. I've tried for about an hour (I don't know javascript well) but I can't seem to figure out how to get an onclick function working. End result, I want to add to t...
I'm writing a custom component for joomla 1.5 and i been searching for a way to integrate com_media image selector into it. All i want, is to have a functionality like, the image selection in the create article page. Anyone knows how to do this? Is there an API in joomla to do this, or do i have to see how is done in com_content an ...
I am using Joomla! CMS to develop a website. In the not-so-distant past I customized a template to schlep up a website. It was fun and interesting to tear apart the code to de-joomla!-fy the template. So interesting that in fact, I am flirting with the idea of making my own template from scratch. So, if I am to pursue this, where do I ...