I'm trying to edit the output joomla main_menu module so I can make a custom dropdown menu. At the moment it currently outputs html like this: <ul class="menu"> <li class="active item1" id="current"><a href="#"><span>First Level Item </span</a></li> <li class="parent item63"><a href="#"><span>First Level Item Parent</span></a> <ul> ...
Hi guys, Does anyone of you know a good free joomla extension to create forms? I have searched the joomla site but most of them are commercial and the free ones very lite and buggy. I have Joomla 1.5 installed. I need to make some forms for my site 34life.org to subscribe some volunteers. Thanks in advance. ...
I'd have thought this would be a native feature (seeing as joomla allows you to connect contacts with user accounts) but we can't find any way to do this! does anyone know of any extensions/modules that would allow this? I'm not so hot on PHP so i'd really love to not have to code this by hand! ...
I develop Joomla websites/components/modules and plugins and every so often I require the ability to use JavaScript that triggers an event when the page is loaded. Most of the time this is done using the window.onload function. My question is: Is this the best way to trigger JavaScript events on the page loading or is there a better...
A few years ago when Joomla first sprung up and I moved over from Mambo I remember finding a great little component called Community Builder (CB) that extends the user-based interface behind Joomla. Over the last couple of years both Joomla and Community Builder have grown and flourished. I find myself remembering a small module I found...
I am porting an existing site to Joomla 1.5. The menus on the existing site use rollover images and inline Javascript. How can I make the menus look the same in Joomla and use the Joomla menus, without rewriting the menu code? ...
Hello there. I am evaluating Drupal and Joomla, and one of the requirements I have is how well supported it is when comes to Form Building, storing the information in the database, and the showing of those information upon query. I don't know which one is better in this regard, Drupal or Joomla? Is there any third party extension I hav...
After joomla upload to ftp . how many folder needed mode 777 need enable to working joomla without any error. ...
I've been writing a plugin for Joomla that automatically processes HTML comments eg. {dropcap}B{/dropcap} and creates a drop cap style. I needed a way to pass on parameters to the plugin so therefore decided the best way would be: {dropcap}B|FF00FF|00FF00{/dropcap}. I created a function: if (preg_match_all('/{dropcap}(.+?){\/dropcap}/...
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 ...
Hi all, I've bought the "virtual gallery" from flashden but I'm having problems implementing it.. I'm not used to using flash galleries or xml files, so hopefully someone can help me out a bit. Here's the call to the flash (js): var so = new SWFObject("gallery.swf?xml=category_1.xml", "virtualgallery", "100%", "600", "10", "#414141")...
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 ...
I've written and played around with alot of PHP function and variables where the original author has written the original code and I've had to continue on developing the product ie. Joomla Components/Modules/Plugins and I've always come up with this question: How does the '&' symbol attached to a function or a variable affect the outcom...
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...
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 -> ...
I'm looking for a way to make certain users on my site to be able to create groups and to invite other users to their groups. In these groups the users are only able to see their group members articles and other group content. If you are not in a group you will only see the public stuff but as soon as you join a group you will be able to...
This question can be broken up into a couple of parts: What is the best way to create a registration key for a product in PHP (ie. a person purchases a PHP program and after payment receives an activation key) I want to be able to store the registration keys on my server (Joomla) and associate the key with my existing users. Then the P...
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_...
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...