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":
$...
4
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463 views
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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Backing Up Live Site Using Akeeba
Joomla 3.9.15
I have been using Akeeba to backup my sites and it's very good.
I've recently installed in on quite a busy site, users are regularly logging in and out of the front and back end, and ...
3
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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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1answer
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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 ...
3
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1answer
267 views
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 ...
3
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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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2answers
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Change priority of loading Joomla core class and custom core class overrides
I would like to know in Joomla framework, there is a way to change priority loading some Joomla core classes after using JLoader::register() method in a system plugin developed to override Joomla core ...
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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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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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Unknown extensions - 1062 Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY'
I'm using Joomla 3.9.14 Release and am no longer able to add new articles or extensions. The original installation was 3.7.x on which I recently encountered this problem.
On the main administrator ...
2
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1answer
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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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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
...
2
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1answer
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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 = ...
2
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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 ...
2
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227 views
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. ...
2
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1answer
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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) ...
2
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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"...
2
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1answer
249 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
81 views
Ask for confirmation before extension update via update server
We are implementing update server for our custom joomla extension. Is it possible to ask a confirmation after selecting the extension and clicked the update button before connecting to the update ...
2
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0answers
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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 ...
2
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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 ...
2
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1answer
774 views
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:
$app->setUserState('com_mycomponent.modelname'.'.filter.status', 1);
When I try to get the variable in the ...
2
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2answers
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Edit Contacts on Front End
Joomla 3.9.14
Is it possible to edit a list of contacts from the front end?
I need to display a list of contacts from a certain category, and allow administrators to edit their details.
Currently ...
2
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1answer
935 views
Override blog layout to display articles under subcategory headings
What I'm trying to do is create a category blog layout that will display the title of a category, followed by subcategories with the articles of those subcategories (full article, not just it's title) ...
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Joomla Site Replication & Automation
Joomla 3.9.20
What's the best way to automate a daily backup of a Joomla website (files, folders & db) to a development site on the same domain?
For example, I have example.com and each night I ...
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Joomla not logging PHP errors to file with system default error_reporting
I'm using Joomla 3.9 with APACHE + PHP 7.0 with these settings
php_flag[display_errors] = On
php_flag[display_startup_errors] = On
php_value[error_reporting] = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~...
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Change user permissions programmatically on the fly
I have in the code I don't conrol such a line which returns false:
if (!$user->authorise('core.create', 'com_jdownloads.category.'.$option->value)) {
I can run my code before and after this ...
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Error when updating Gantry from 4.1.20 to 4.1.32
My joomla is version: 3.2.7 and Gantry is 4.1.20.
I downloaded Gantry 4.1.32, but when I tried to update, this message appears:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method JInstallerAdapterPackage::...
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How do I upload images to a specific folder (Component Backend)
I would like to know how I upload files to a specific folder through Joomla Administrator Panel (My Component Backend).
I know how to do it in the site part following along with this tutorial:
https:/...
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0answers
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After updating Joomla 3.9 - Class 'Joomla\CMS\Cache\Cache' not found
I have updated Joomla to 3.9 and now I see this error every time I try to load the website:
Error: Class 'Joomla\CMS\Cache\Cache' not found: Class 'Joomla\CMS\Cache\Cache' not found
Error reporting ...
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0answers
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SchuWeb Sitemap includes Noindex Pages
I am using Joomla v3.9.19 along with SchuWeb Sitemaps (v3.1.0).
Recently, I added some new pages (single article menu item) and added in menu entry the metadata noindex, nofollow, but SchuWeb Sitemaps ...
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3answers
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How to inject a custom message in joomla update without touching the core code
I created my own component in joomla and I want to show a custom warning when my users want to auto update the component. When they try to update it joomla could not find the zip file and return a ...
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FIX or REPLACE: User profile page does not redirect to the requested page after forced password reset
I work on a custom Joomla! 3.x module. After registration, users would access my module by clicking a link in an email. I force users to change password at first login, so when they click the link, ...
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1answer
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Which one to use? grid.sort vs searchtools.sort
I have been looking at why column sort orders wouldn't change in the front list view of my component and found by changing
<?php echo HtmlHelper::_('searchtools.sort', 'JGRID_HEADING_ID',...
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Upload and attachement for phpmailer
hello i starting an code to allow sending file via a form
i create an input file field
<input type="file" name="'.$field_name.'[]" accept="'.$values_field[0].'" id="'.$field_id.'" '.$placeholder.' ...
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How to compare current date to article created date?
I need a code to compare if current date and time is greater than article created time of joomla.
I have this example code:
function CompareDate() {
// new Date(Year, Month, Date, ...
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Custom htaccess rewrites with PT flags
I'm attempting to add a custom RewriteRule in the default htaccess file in Joomla 3, but not having any luck getting it to work.
The end goal is to create a URL with a wildcard subpage, like site.com/...
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JCE plugin to add custom toolbar dropdown list
I am trying to add a dropdown menu in JCE editor. The dropdown will contain a list of items fetched from database. Please find the below code:
(function () {
tinymce.create('tinymce.plugins....
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Contact Form Non Unique id #jform_id
Joomla 3.9.14
When I open a contact to edit their details and look in the browser console I can see the following notice;
[DOM] Found 2 elements with non-unique id #jform_id:
(More info: https://...
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1answer
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Getting error message as The most recent request was denied because it had an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again
In my list view I have added token in my form using
<?php echo JHtml::_( 'form.token' ); ?>
Then I have redirected from the list view to a controller's task like
http://some/joomla/site/...
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Spam Emails and Web Host Security
Joomla 3.9.13
The past while i've been receiving a lot of emails with the subject line similar to;
Subject: Warning: message 1iTQ2k-00083X-8c delayed 24 hours
The email body contains the following, ...
