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More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They experiment on their customer-facing website and in most cases, they are pay...
Quick article here as googling/binging for how to refer to Joomla articles after versions 1.5.x wasn't obvious. This article is to demonstrate how to write the webaddress for a Joomla article even when you have Search-engine-friendly website addresses enabled. How? Basically you have to include &view=article as opposed...
If you get something like the following error: Warning: call_user_func() [function.call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home/.../templates/rt_affinity/rt_sectionrows.php on line 311 How? Copy & backup the file /public_html/.../templates/rt_affinity/rt_sectionrows.php Find the following...
For any web-developer who can program in PHP/HTML, this would be easy to hard-code and override. However, the article below demonstrates how to make this an option that your client can switch off/on using the Joomla Admin Panel. How?
This is an article to describe how to add an article modal button in the Joomla Admin Panel (at time of print version 2.5.6) of your component including the all important clear button. What I found was that no one posted this solution which I found is compatible with almost any site and with all my components without h...
This is an article to demo the crudest form which uses Joomla's version 2.5 core mootools (uncompressed?). This is intended for absolute novices (like me) who just want to see an example of an AJAX form within Joomla 1.6.x - 2.5.x in it's most basic state. At time of print, I am using this with Joomla 2.5.6.
APPLIES TO Joomla 2.5.x Why? I'm building a Joomla component which is to be compatible with Joomla versions 1.6.x to 2.5.x. Because I use dynamic scripts running in the background (mootools), some of these need to connect to the database but as they sit outside of the MVC structure, we need them to use the existing con...
Trying to make a component and can't remember how to store HTML code when the save command is clicked (ie. submitted from a PHP form). This is for the Opensource Content Management System (CMS - phew what a mouthful) Joomla! version 1.6.x to 2.5.x; no wonder customers have difficulty following. How? So it's the field o...
Thought I'd add the migration script I've been using to test my JComments migration from my Joomla CMS site version 1.5.20 to Joomla CMS site version 2.5.6. DISCLAIMER I do not work for either Joomla or JoomlaTune (Jcomments) This script is provided as is without warranty If you do not understand what this script is do...
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