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Reverse Caching Support using nginx
How can I implement Reverse Caching Support using nginx mentioned in Joomla 3.6 features?
Joomla! 3.6 now supports reverse caching proxies like Varnish or an
NGINX caching proxy. These help 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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490 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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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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Unable to get (site) template params from my module's backend
Someone at stackoverflow recommend I ask the question here, apologies if this is considered cross-posting...
OVERVIEW
I am developing a set of custom templates and a set of custom modules.
The ...
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How to replace deprecated Joomla classes with VS Code?
Is there a way to conveniently replace deprecated Joomla classes with VS Code. I do have the PHP CodeSniffer (with Joomla Coding standards) and Intelephense extensions, although I am not sure if ...
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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 An error has occurred. 0 JForm::validateField() rule `number` missing. Return to Control Panel
Got
An error has occurred. 0 JForm::validateField() rule number missing. Return to Control Panel
while tying to change email id and Name from mail settings in joomla's Global Configuration>...
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Custom component: Export items to CSV -> Changing searchbar causes a new download
I would like to export all selected items from the items-view of my component.
To do so I modified my view and inserted a new button to the
JToolBarHelper::custom('items.exportcsv', 'download', '', ...
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Compress & Optimise Existing Images
Joomla 3.9.21
I am working on a site that is very image heavy, most images are within the EasyBlog component and amount to approximately 8GB, the original administrators didn't optimise the images for ...
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Joomla 3.9 + Gantry 5.4.31 mismatch layout issue on localhost
I am trying to build a regional blog/magazine. The home page layout which came as almost default with Gantry is satisfying. I am using XAMPP on Ubuntu 18.04.3 and Joomla 3.9.13 and Gantry 5.4.31.
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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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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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htaccess 404 Redirect Not Working
I recently redesigned a site and there are loads of 404 pages, so to simplify things I want to add a redirect to my htaccess, redirecting any 404 pages to the home page.
I though it was as simple as ...
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How does the JSession works, and how to use it in different files?
I'm using JSession (in Joomla 3.9.x) to implement sort of a captcha field in a form, apparently the captcha code is been saved correctly in the session but I can't find the way to retrieve it, and ...
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Joomla Update System For Paid Extensions
I'm trying to make this Joomla Update system work for paid extensions.
How I'm going about it is as follows:
I'm using Mohameds downloadid.php to populate "extra_query" field in the "_update_sites" ...
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Getting Category's custom fields in a blog view
I'm trying to get the custom fields value of a category in a blog view.
I have try the article item method but on the child item (supposed to be the current category item in the loop) :
JLoader::...
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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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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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Smart Search - Same Content but Different indexes and front-end results
I have not a deep experience with the ins and outs of Smart Search.
I am trying to figure out why I am getting different search results after searching with the exact same term in those 2 instances of ...
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Joomla 3.8 // New Router & Nested View
I want to use the new router classes to implement SEF stuff. I still struggle to get it to work.
I have a view which can show categories. So this view is called categories. If you click a category, ...
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Joomla 3.8.1 Neither Alternative Menu Item Nor Layout Reflects on Front End
Within mytemplate, I created an alternative menu and an alternative layout for the com_content articles view, and neither reflects on the front end.
For com_content, in my template, I created the ...
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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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Disabling cache on specific part of page from above comment
I am facing a problem in part of page of an extension on comments
When cache is enabled, there is some json token error due to cache
When cache is disabled, the user can easily post in comment
Is ...
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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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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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Clear component toolbar task
I've added a custom toolbar button to export the items from a custom component as a CSV.
The CSV is getting exported correctly but my custom task is then being triggered when navigating the ...
3
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259 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 ...
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How to change the home page to be domain.com/blog?
A client wants to build a new Joomla website in two phases. The first phase is a very simple website with mainly a blog. The blog would appear on the home page. The second phase will include the rest ...
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How to use OpenSearch?
Forgive my ignorance about OpenSearch, but after providing the OpenSearch name and description, I have no idea how to see if it's in effect, or where to see evidence that the site is "openly" ...
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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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Seblod: Email field
I have a question about Seblod. I am using an email field to submit customer requests. I am trying to format the Email as HTML so the agent can easily read it.
While this generally works, I have 2 ...
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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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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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Access Joomla article content from PHP-script with “file_get_contents”
I'm using php-script to export Joomla article to PDF-file with mPDF.
The script is shortly the following:
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..'));
...
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Making /joomla subdirectory the website root AND forcing HTTPS
Setting up a Joomla site on Apache 2.4 on a Synology Disk Station. Joomla is unavoidably installed in a subdirectory of the web root (/web/joomla) and unfortunately do not have access to the Apache ...
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Navbar: prevent two lines on smaller screens
I am using the Flex template and SPPage builder for my Joomla site. I have one annoying problem: When I resize the window to less than 1200 px, the navbar switches to two lines (e.g. iPad Pro ...
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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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Joomla 4 template namespace
I'm working with latest Joomla 4 beta, and wondering how can I use namespaces with templates so I can start using and developing custom fields for my templates.
I need to know what should I set in the ...
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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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Generating a module instance from PHP
I am trying to render a mod_login module - on the fly - from inside a system plugin. So far, there is no existing mod_login instance in the website nor the database. I am just trying to create a new ...
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Is it possible to create a component “addon”?
I've created a component for handling a multitude of things for my clients, but I frequently get feedback that certain sections aren't needed or that additional sections are desired. The first ...
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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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Override 3d party extension plugin method
I found some errors in the code of a third-party system plugin,
it is assumed that the developer will release updates and fix them,
but for today I would like to fix them myself, for this I made my ...
2
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How do I pass _JEXEC to a php file?
I have a form in my Joomla! site. Once completed, the form should send an e-mail but only if some conditions have been met.
Not having been able to use standard, commercially available mailers while ...
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Using the SQL `Delimiter` statement in component update
For the next version of my component I need split some data into different tables, which requires some rather more complex SQL than I would usually use. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a ...
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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, ...