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 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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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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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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Virtuemart AJAX Cart pop up error over https
I'm working on an extremely outdated shop template, trying to keep everything else up to date for a client.
The client has set up cloudflare to be used as SSL which is pretty much all sorted, however ...
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Custom Component with ACL not apearing in admin menu
I have been asked to help maintain a custom component that has already been installed on a server, but had no ACL.
I followed the sample tutorial in adding both XML files (Access.xml and config.xml) ...
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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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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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Reroute all emails to developer / debug address
I am trying to intercept outgoing emails from joomla and reroute them to my email address for development and testing. Ideally I could set up a toggle under Global Configuration > Server > Email ...
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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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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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2answers
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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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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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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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Error Unable to detect manifest file. for JED - related to Folder permission
Hello there On Joomla 3.9.26 stable i clicked on the blue Button up in the Image and then the red button above appeared.
I googled the error-message. I found something for joomla 1. and 2. but that ...
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Remove Itemid from URL generated from manual links in articles
I have been looking for hours but I have been unable to find an answer for my case.
I have an Article which is used for the home menu. For some reason the Read More option is not working but that is ...
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How to add GET parameter to CSS filename in plugin JCH Optimize (Joomla)
I cannot find an answer to for several weeks. Perhaps my experience in development is not so great :) One site uses the JCH Optimize plugin and I noticed that after clearing the old memory (cache), ...
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Email confirmation after joomla password R e s e t
In order to comply with certain US regulations - we need the ability to send a confirmation to the user once their password has been changed. Right now, Joomla will send an email link asking the user ...
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Rendering custom field manually when edit article in front end
When editing an article in Joomla frontend all the custom fields are rendered with the following code:
<?php echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.edit.params', $this); ?>
Isn't it possible to ...
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How to count aggregate data from RSForm submission values with Joomla's query building methods?
user
SubmissionId
FormId
FieldName
FieldValue
bob
2
16
state
mystate1
bob
2
16
qda
myqad1
bob
2
16
city
mycity1
rob
3
16
state
mystate2
rob
3
16
qda
myqad1
rob
3
16
city
mycity1
jac
4
16
state
...
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Add an Image to K2 article pragmatically
I want to add an image to a K2 article using PHP. Is there a way to add an image when I am creating the article using PHP? Adding the title, body, and category is simple enough. All you have to do is ...
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Display modules only in articles (not in the article list) and only in articles with a specific tag
I'm using the J2STORE component on Joomla 3.9.22.
I would need to publish a module in a Blog category but only in the articles (not in the list), in this case the articles are products of j2store.
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Using Tags in an Extension
So far I made the follow changes looking for add tags functionality to my extension:
Register a Content type
Add Observer methods to the extension table class
class TagimagesTableTagimages extends ...
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Unable to change 'Joomla Update' options for upgrading Joomla 2.5 to 3.x
I am trying to upgrade Joomla 2.5.28 to Joomla 3.x using the steps described here: https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_2.5_to_3.x_Step_by_Step_Migration
I backed up the original website using Akeeba and ...
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Joomla multilingual site HTML tag attributes don't change after install k2 component 2.10.3
I found a problem in the "System - K2" plugin in version 2.10.3.
When the "System - K2" plugin is enabled, if the site is multilingual, the language attributes ("lang" ...
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How to avoid downcasing of search words?
Relevance of case information differs from language to language. In English, it might be low, but consider cases like "who" vs "WHO" and "us" vs "US". In German,...
