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I'm making a custom component for Joomla CMS 2.5.x which is restricted to registered users only. On installation, and by default, the menu item returns a 500 - Server Error because the parameters haven't been set. I need to go into the Joomla Admin panel, view the Options of the component, and click on "Save"... despit...
A quick reminder on how to disable user registration in Joomla! CMS version 1.5.x without using the Joomla! CMS back-end panel.
A quick note on a htaccess rewrite rule I'm liking. What does it do? What I type: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/videos.html Sends this to server: http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php?myFolder=blog&myFiles=videos How?
Just a quick note to myself on how to reorder columns as I was having difficulty using a phpMyAdmin interface to do this. How? Taken from the best forum for programming Qs&As: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4095481/easy-way-to-re-order-columns Method: phpMyAdmin So in the phpMyAdmin interface, apparently, you can d...
So I can't stand the way the default "Search" component in Joomla works. The default is to sort the results by popularity (hits) or by most recently added (depending on your version) which I have never seen in any other system. I've googled and binged but could not find anything that documents how to bring it into line...
A replacement for Joes Revolver Maps? So I recently came across the Chrome Experiments WebGL Globe which I think is beautiful; here's a screenshot of what I envisaged though: Demo It's still in development and a somewhat stable beta version is demo'd at http://demo.joellipman.com/joomla16/index.php/joes-infographic-for...
Before you ask, I tried Google Prettify and Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter but both were causing problems for the sites I wanted to use it on. Mainly because of JavaScript frameworks (like jQuery and MooTools) conflicting with other scripts but do I really need a complex solution? So here I am making my own again...
This is a quick article on what I change the error page for Joomla websites to. I like a clean error page, for a demo visit http://www.joellipman.com/my_error_page. Applies to Joomla 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.5.x How? Backup the file \templates\system\error.php Create a replacement file called error.php including the below code...
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