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Joomla! 1.0.14 released
2008-02-11 21:01:00 Following on from the release of Joomla !1.5.1, it is announced the immediate release of Joomla!1.0.14. Security Fixes [LOW] Fixed XSS issue in Search Component. [LOW] Fixed XSS issue in Search results pages. [LOW] Disallowed users from adding extra wildcard filters in search strings. [LOW] Fixed multiple typos in back end Content Component making array integer check ineffective. [LOW] Fixed case-sensitive flaw ... More About: Released
Joomla! 1.5.1 Released
2008-02-08 20:50:00 We had not enough time to study Joomla !1.5 as Joomla!1.5.1 is already released. Joomla! 1.5.1 Fixes a security vulnerability in the XML-RPC Blogger API plugin which allows an unauthorized user to edit, post and delete articles. It is strongly recommended that all Joomla! 1.5 users upgrade to Joomla! 1.5.1, especially if the XML-RPC system ... More About: Released
Mobile Sites with Joomla! CMS
2008-01-23 09:36:00 dev.mobi publishes an article about PDA-mambot: Mobile Sites with Joomla ! CMS It can be used as quite good tutorial on work with PDA-mambot.
Long-awaited Joomla!1.5 Stable
2008-01-22 09:42:00 Event that we wait for a long time: Joomla ! 1.5 Stable (codename ‘Khepri’) has been released! More About: Long
Joomla! 1.5 RC4
2007-12-20 07:38:00 Joomla! 1.5 RC4 — Introducing Karibu: Just a week and a half ago people from all over the globe gathered in various locations to do a little Bug Squashing… today the fruits of their labour can be revealed as we announce the release of Joomla! 1.5 RC4. This release is code named Karibu which is ... More About: Joomla
PDA-mambot and ?Login Form? module
2007-12-14 12:32:00 Recently the following question is very popular: When I try to login, I get an error message. Why? The problem consists of several parts: If it is specified in options of “Logi n Form ” module to display a script at login or logout, the PDA cannot process this script and you will see the empty screen (or an error). The ... More About: Joomla , Module
How to compress WURFL in 1000 times less?
2007-12-01 11:09:00 If you create a site for mobile devices, you need to solve the problem: how to distinguish the user, who has visited a site from a computer, from the user, who has visited a site from the mobile device? There are some scripts, which allow solving this problem: PHP to detect mobile phones Lightweight device-detection in PHP Here ... More About: General , Times , Compress
Discussion of PDA-mambot/plugin
2007-10-31 19:50:00 I suggest to discuss prospects of further development of PDA-mambot/plugin. I have following ideas: Definition of browser type with the aid of WURFL library (it will be released in forthcoming version 2.2). Support of three separate templates for wap, i-mode and wap2/xhtml mobile browsers. Redirect to a corresponding subdomain for mobile devices. Opportunity in template parameters to specify a logo ... More About: Extensions , Plugin , Joomla , Discussion
Go on leave
2007-10-07 16:41:00 Today I leave for scientific conference, therefore a site “goes on leave” till October, 17th. All comments will be added at once and without premoderation. But to avoid a spam, all comments containing links will not be published. More About: General , Leave
Google AutoPing 1.0beta
2007-10-07 09:14:00 As I already wrote earlier, in Joomla ! there are no tools for automatic pinging xml-rpc servers (e.g., blogsearch.google.com). I promised, that I’ll write a component which will correct this situation. Such component is not written yet, but I can offer you the beta-version of component “Google AutoPing ” which sends “ping” to blogsearch.google.com at displaying of ... More About: Extensions
Current state of Mobile Joomla!
2007-09-29 20:30:00 Now I on a regular basis receive letters with the request to give more detailed information on the project “Mobile Joomla !”. I was going to release this project on this weekend, but, unfortunately, the release should be postponed. Now following parts of the project are ready: “PDA-mambot 2.2″ mambot+template - 70% (in particular, library WURFL is added, that ... More About: Current , State , Bile
Mobile Joomla
2007-09-21 22:37:00 Now I’m planning to work on creation of the package “Mobile Joomla !”. The package includes: PDA-mambot 2.2 and PDA-template 2.2 (special edition); PDA mambot guide (the full illustrated information on PDA-mambot installation and tuning); “PayPal Mobile Checkout” module; “Google AdSense Mobile” module; List of mobile ads services (and how to embed them in joomla-powered site). The package will cost about $2.00. ... More About: Bile
Weblog ping component
2007-09-17 00:20:00 Ping 1.0.0 is a component for pinging xml-rpc updating services (such as rpc.weblogs.com or rpc.technorati.com). To ping just select “Component - Ping - Ping” at the backend. You can edit list of rpc servers which to ping. More About: Weblog , Extensions , Joomla , Ping
Testing pda version of a site without pda
2007-09-05 10:56:00 In this post I’ll describe some ways which will allow to test the pda version of a site on usual computer. Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices. Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer ... More About: Extensions , Testing , Site , Joomla , Version
Joomla! 1.5RC & Joomla! 1.0.13
2007-07-22 08:03:00 Joomla! 1.5RC and Joomla! 1.0.13 have been released! More About: Joomla
CAPTCHA by own strength: Registration form and Lost password form
2007-07-13 19:08:00 Tags: joomla, captcha Now it is a turn to embed captcha in registration form and lost password form. Though the last is not very much necessary (it is to complete the picture). More About: Security , Lost , Hacks , Joomla , Password
CAPTCHA by own strength: Contact form
2007-07-06 17:31:00 Tags: joomla, captcha As it is known, the contact form in Joomla ! can be used easily for automatic delivery of a spam (that is, instead of a e-mails database, it is quite enough to have a database of the sites created using Joomla!). To be protected from this, we’ll add CAPTCHA on contact form. As ... More About: Security , Contact , Captcha , Form
CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form
2007-07-04 19:07:00 Tags: joomla, captcha Allow me to begin a series of articles devoted to embedding of CAPTCHA in Joomla . I know only one project, allowing such embedding, it is Security Images. But this component has some disadvantage, e.g. its size is 1.5Mb in zip-archive. I’ll tell how to embed such a protection by own strength. For the ... More About: Hacks , Captcha , Form
?Popular of late? 1.1.1
2007-07-03 20:53:00 Today Roman Beranek has offered small improvement of the module, allowing to show tooltips with a number of hits the article has. I have slightly completed his idea and I call your attention to version 1.1.1 of the “Popular of late”. More About: Extensions , Joomla , Late , Pula
Waiting for Joomla! 1.0.13
2007-07-02 14:09:00 Tags: joomla Recently at forum.joomla.org RobInk (Global Moderator of the forum) has written, that as you could see in the 1.0.x SVN changelog, work is done for a new release which will be 1.0.13. I have to note here that 1.0.x is in maintenance mode, so only security issues will be fixed, so not all the bugs ... More About: Joomla , Waiting , Wait
PDA-mambot version 2.0 beta
2007-06-22 06:17:00 I suggest testing version 2.0beta of a pda-mambot and pda-subdomain-mambot (for previous version see “PDA-version of Joomla ?s site” and “The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain“). Capabilities: 1. To appoint for the pda-version different ?main? page (homepage). 2. Set up display of a template: - There are 6 positions in template - It is possible to change names of ... More About: Extensions , Beta , Version
Everything is all right!
2007-06-21 07:00:00 There was a failure on a server therefore a site some days did not work. Now the site functions normally. More About: General , Thing
How to limit length of the text
2007-06-16 18:12:00 Working on a site often there is a problem to limit length of pathway or heading of article since very long text can corrupt design of page. Usually when the text turns out too long, that does not get into one line, and it is carry over to the next line. However, for some reason ... More About: General , Joomla , Text
Draw up a plan
2007-06-15 15:57:00 Now I write version 2.0 of the pda-mambot-and-template. In the new version a plenty of options of the mambot which will make use of the mambot more convenient and adjusted is expected. If you have any offers in this connection write them in comments to this post. Through some time the beta-version will be available to ... More About: Extensions , Joomla , Plan , Draw
Optimization of queries to a database in Joomla!. Part 1
2007-06-14 20:37:00 Let’s install Joomla ! 1.0.12 on a server and set in Back End: Administration / Site / Global Configuration / Site / Debug site: Yes Then we save changes and leave from Back End. Now we come on a site. Result—36 queries to a database. Now we switch on caching in Back End: Administration / Site / Global Configuration / ... More About: Hacks , Optimization , Database , Part
Problem with PDA-subdomain-mambot and cache
2007-06-12 19:59:00 In some cases, using the mambot you can have problems with display of links on page (from the main domain there can be a link to a pda, and vice versa). It is connected with not absolutely correct work of joomla’s system of caching which does not know, that a site can be visited from ... More About: Hacks , Joomla , Problem , Cache
josMarkdown mambot
2007-06-12 15:26:00 Mambot josMark down is based on PHP Markdown Extra. This is a special version of PHP Markdown with extra features. See PHP Markdown Extra for details. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). “Markdown” ... More About: Extensions , Joomla
josSmartyPants mambot
2007-06-11 11:37:00 One more mambot for you! The mambot josSmartyPants is based on PHP SmartyPants Typographer. Typographer is an extension to SmartyPants adding support for different quotation marks as well as for converting normal spaces to unbreakable spaces and thus preventing inappropriate line breaks. SmartyPants can perform the following transformations: More About: Extensions , Joomla , Typography , Joss
The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain
2007-06-08 18:32:00 Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, subdomain Today I suggest you other interesting solution for making of the PDA-version of a site. Let’s make so that the pda-version was accessible to the address of pda.yourdomain.com. More About: Extensions , Site , Joomla , Sion , Version
?Popular of Late? v1.1
More articles from this author:2007-06-07 12:03:00 I have released version 1.1 of the “Popular of Late ” module (if you have installed previous version, please, update it to 1.1). The module can be downloaded from Old articles in the “Popular” module post. PS. This version is Mambo-compatible. More About: Extensions , Joomla , Pula 1, 2 |
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