Questions tagged [joomla-3.x]
For question regarding Joomla 3.x of the Content Management System. This includes versions 3.0 up to 3.8.
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How to customize user registration in Joomla 3.7?
Now that Joomla 3.7 supports custom fields, can anyone point me to documentation or a YouTube video that outlines how to customize user registration? I assume that additional work is also required to ...
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How can I clear the cache for the params of a custom component?
I am working on a custom component and it works as intended as long as I do not have cache enabled.
In the admin section of the component, I have a view that can change the "component params":
$...
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404 Error when site is opened to general public but works fine when logged in
We started getting a 404 error on a new site using Joomla 3.5. It is not open to the public yet. When testing it we just found that when we do open the site to the public it gives us a 404 error. ...
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Document Manager Recommendations
I'm looking for some recommendations for a document manager that's compatible with Joomla 3+. Seems to be a pretty popular question throughout the Joomla community.
In the past I've always used Phoca ...
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Joomla keeps wrapping content with user-visible p tags
I have observed the same behavior when installing Joomla from multiple so called Quick Start Packages embedding themes and plugins. Right now, I have installed, Basic Joomla running on a production ...
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Joomla 3 versioning approval
I was wondering if anyone knew of any kind of extension which will allow a manager to edit / update the content (articles) in the backend - but only a Super User can approve the changes prior to it ...
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How can I provide language specific access to Multi-lingual Associations?
I'm trying to get away from the deprecated Josetta translation component, which has always served us well, but is choking on php 7. I like what I see in 3.7 with the ability to perform side-by-side ...
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Language changing only after page refresh
I have multilingual (fa/en) Joomla 3.6.2 site using Protostar template. The problem is when I click on the fa - (persian flag) or UK flag, the lang and dir tag does not change, but when I hit the ...
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RSS Feed for K2 Latest Items
I have created a menu item "Latest items from (one or more) users or categories" using K2. I have set it to display the latest 1 item from selected users.
I want to create an RSS feed from this page -...
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Disable script in head if path to script has a full url?
I found this code from this topic: Disable script loading in head
$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
$dontInclude = array(
'/media/jui/js/jquery.js',
);
foreach($doc->_scripts as $key => $script){
...
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Joomla Tagged Blog of articles
I managed to create a 2 column blog view of articles on a Joomla 3.9 website using the guidance in this post, along with some additional linked advice on adding a "readmore":
How to show ...
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JHtml::_('bootstrap.renderModal',,,); Joomla Bootstrap List of all parameters that can be used?
First I want to thank @Lodder and @Irfan for the below code which helped out a lot. The code below will create a button that launches a native Joomla Bootstrap modal.
$modalTitle = 'myModal';
$...
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Getting no login prompts when trying to access private content, getting "Page not found" instead
I have private content on the site, and I want "non-registered" users to be redirected to the login page when they try to access the private content, without using any extensions.
I have ...
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Joomla - Page Builder - With Publish Workflow
We have recently built a site on Joomla and have used the SP Page Builder. But unfortunately, the SP Page Builder does not have the Workflow / User Access mechanism where one set of users create the ...
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Joomla Site Replication & Automation
Joomla 3.9.20
What's the best way to automate a daily backup of a Joomla website (files, folders & db) to a development site on the same domain?
For example, I have example.com and each night I ...
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Change user permissions programmatically on the fly
I have in the code I don't conrol such a line which returns false:
if (!$user->authorise('core.create', 'com_jdownloads.category.'.$option->value)) {
I can run my code before and after this ...
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How to get an AJAX call in component's administrator side
I added a component to my site and it accesses my DB via an AJAX call. In my 'tmpl' folder, I have a 'default.php' file which makes an AJAX call that is received by view.json.php just outside that ...
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Edit Contacts on Front End
Joomla 3.9.14
Is it possible to edit a list of contacts from the front end?
I need to display a list of contacts from a certain category, and allow administrators to edit their details.
Currently ...
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Get menu-meta_description from menu item
I need to add meta description inside a component page. That's what I tried:
$menu = $app->getMenu(); // Load the JMenuSite Object
$active = $menu->getActive(); // Load the Active Menu ...
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Deleting obsolete menu types
While programming a Joomla extension, I experimented with Menu Types, however while editing/deleting/adding types in the default.xml it doesn't delete the previous ones.
So while I only have 1 menu ...
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Can I interrupt installation process with preflight function?
I'm trying to add a note to user when trying to install an extension / module.
Basically I want to add note before user continuing the module installation process when an older version found, and ...
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Adding articles to a local copy, then pushing them to the live version
We have a client who was getting errors when trying to add a lot of articles (like a dozen) to their live site in a short time span, but we found that after moving their site to a localhost they did ...
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fetch article custom fields in Layouts
I have created some custom fields in my Joomla article from backend
templates/name-template/html/com_content/article/default.php
and use this code for load custom fields at joomla article
<?php
...
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K2 SEF issues including Joomla Smart Search
I am having an issue with smart search and k2. If I search for a Joomla article then everything pulls the correct SEF URL. If I try to search for something that is a k2 item it loads correctly but ...
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Why calling addIncludePath from self has different results than from JModelLegacy
I'm trying to get an instance of a com_menus model from within my component. The following code works:
JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_menus/models/');
$model = ...
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Installing Joomla Quickstart package on AWS Lightsail/Bitnami?
I am trying to install a quickstart package on Lightsail/Bitnami. But whatever I do I cannot seem to get it working.
My latest attempt was to install the QS on another server while installing just ...
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Ways to analyse TTFB for a Joomla site
My site's ttfb is very high.
www.farafan-market.ir
I used to use JCH-optimize plugin to enhance the page load. Then when I enabled Joomla's system-cache plugin, TTFB reduced to less than 1 second. ...
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How to manage navigation links in multi-language website?
I have some trouble to understand how the navigation links between different language versions work in Joomla! 3.6 So I just got a website to manage - http://www.pontech.co.uk/en/
When you choose ...
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Add "show all" button to BT Content Slider module
I am using Joomla 3.X. I have a module which displays three news and events at a time to see next set of news and events user has to press the next button. The name of the module is "BT Content Slider"...
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Create record from modal edit form
Is there a standard Joomla mechanism / development pattern for creating a modal edit form to create an item from within another item?
I've used this tutorial to create a modal list view, where you ...
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Ask for confirmation before extension update via update server
We are implementing an update server feature for our custom Joomla extension.
Is it possible to add confirmation text after selecting the extension and require the click of the update button before ...
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Why isn't JTableUsergroup implemented as nested set inheriting JTableNested?
Joomla uses Nested Sets to represent the category structure JTableCategory and the menu structure JTableMenu. Therefore these classes inherit the JTableNested class:
JTableCategory extends ...
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Remember language with no content-languages site
Hello I'm developing a website that has not content languages, it would be some kind of joomla administrator, only language strings are loaded (no contents needed for this website). I want that Joomla ...
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Problem with SEF URL For K2 Users/Authors
I'm having trouble setting up proper SEF URL's for the users / authors on a site I'm working on. I have "Enable advanced SEF for K2 URLs" on, and everything works fine as long I can associate a menu ...
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getUserStateFromRequest variable become empty if name starts with '.filter.'
In my view.html.php I set UserState Variables. One of this variables is set like this:
$app->setUserState('com_mycomponent.modelname'.'.filter.status', 1);
When I try to get the variable in the ...
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Override blog layout to display articles under subcategory headings
What I'm trying to do is create a category blog layout that will display the title of a category, followed by subcategories with the articles of those subcategories (full article, not just it's title) ...
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CB Conditional field not letting me add extra AND rows
I am trying to create a CB Conditional Field Show using an AND row, and it just won't let me. I can add OR rows to my heart's content, but not an AND row. I click on the 'Add AND rows' and not a ...
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how to override mvc component in joomla 3?
How to override the any component controller model files using plugin in joomla is there any documentation for that?. I found documentation very old in joomla articles.
i have been trying to create a ...
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When a user logs in it always goes to edit-your-profile page
Joomla version: Joomla! 3.10.1 Stable
PHP: 7.4
This joomla website doesn't have many plugins. I only have OneSocial plugin.
Anyways, I am willing to try any suggestions at this point, I have tried to ...
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Add avatar field to user component
Joomla 3.9.28
PHP 7.4.21
I added a field to the "Users" component to let the users have an avatar photo.
This field is set to "Media" type.
However, in the Administration of the ...
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I manually added a field to frontend article submission form but it does NOT save the data. What is wrong?
I created a frontend form override for article submission tmpl/form/edit.php and added the following field as plain HTML
<input type="text" name="jform[attribs][videourl]" id=&...
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Multiple Stripe Webhooks for checkout.session.completed from various Joomla components
Scenario
Site has OSMembership for subscriptions
Site has RSForms Pro for registering for in person / virtual courses
Site has J2Store for some miscellaneous products
In Stripe, I've set up two ...
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How can I give pages URLs with two layers of slashes in them?
I have a page at www.website.com/page51 with 0 layers of slash items in the URL (only the website and the page alias) and I want to make it have two layers of slash items, as in www.website.com/layer1/...
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Place article specific scripts in head section
I'm using a lot of javascript files for my articles. These scripts shouldn't be loaded everywhere - only in certain articles. That's the reason why I don't add them inside of the templates´ head. At ...
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Adding custom fields on the fly in JOOMLA 3.9
I am trying to develop a hobby project based on https://www.themealdb.com/ api.
I am trying to create an article programmatically for https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s=Arrabiata and ...
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Using sql field in custom component
I have a custom component, it allows admins to select a related content article from the #__content table using the following:
<field name="relatedcontent" type="sql" default=&...
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How do I force download an image inside Joomla component controller
I want to download the PNG image that my site creates. I want to be able to force download the image. I attempted an HTTP request to a PHP file outside of Joomla, but that did not work. How can I ...
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Joomla admin session ends prematurely
I've been having this strange issue. I transferred my site to a different hostname and now when I open site's pages while being logged in Admin panel of Joomla, it logs me out right away. But only in ...
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Getlistquery Joomla conditional values
So I have a query in the getlistquery method of my model, except that it relies on data in another table, that sometimes is not filled. This gives me an error when that other data is not available.
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How to populate custom field dropdown with values from DB
I trying to create a new custom field, which will have a select field with menu items from certain menu type, I got stuck at populating this select field with values from database.
You can see the ...
