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This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters. The Joomla! articles were displaying the corr...
Installation Download the appropriate file for your system (see compatibility table below) Login to your Joomla admin panel and install as per usual. How to Use Install the ZIP using your Joomla! Admin Panel > Extension Manager View the module on your front-end to see if it does what you want it to do. Modify the modul...
Having trouble ordering your frontpage articles? After re-ordering articles wondering where it was taking the order it puts the articles in the front page (or landing page) was confusing me. The quick answer is that it is within the menu manager > main menu > menu item section of your Joomla! Admin Panel. Certain Advan...
Having started developing multi-language components, it was important that I get a general idea as to what languages are abbreviated to. Usually I only write english files (en-GB) but it's not very international and narrow-minded to think only English speakers will use Joomla! CMS. The below is for reference only:
Basically you've woken up this morning, visited your website, and all your K2 articles are gone !!!! If you login to your Joomla! administration panel (back-end) and look under k2 items, you should get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/public_html/administrator/components/co...
As the instructions to installing a new payment module in Virtuemart for Joomla! I've done this video showing how I apply it to my demo site. g8YE26hA-UY
As an IT professional, I feel that both OpenSource and Commercial applications have their benefits and neither should go. My day job doesn't involve any Joomla! material but has many Content Management Systems (CMS) commercial equivalents. I use any donations to justify working on Joomla! specifically; but like to add...
Thought I'd put this error in here and how I fixed it. Basically because firstly I don't want to have to create an account on someone else's forum just to post my answer and secondly because my solution is a "cowboy fix" rather than the other intelligent solutions on the web. The issue was that I was building my first...
So this is a comparison chart (at least in my opinion) of 3 major joomla template/extension providers. When I'm less caught up in work I'll try adding to this article. But here's some lazy stats:
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