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How to stop (fake) users from registering on my website?
Why I find fake/spam registered users in my site…?
The majority of such registrations are coming from botnets, infected machines, script kiddys and generally all kind of bots.
In systems like Joomla, ...
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How to stop (fake) users from registering on my website?
Newer versions of Joomla 3.x disable User Registration by default.
If your version of Joomla was installed before this change, you probably have User Registration enabled.
User Registration can be ...
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How to display module in component area
To enhance the given answers here:
To include a modul position in your component view and to load modules there, you just have to add
echo JHtml::_('content.prepare', '{loadposition ...
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Error after Upgrading Joomla 2.5 to joomla 3.4.4
This error generally arises because of mismatch in columns present in Joomla3x and Joomla2.5 tables. To fix this, follow the following steps:
1) If you can access administrator section, then click on ...
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How to convert / migrate a Joomla 2.5 template into Joomla 3
Some links that might be of help:
Template Considerations during Migration
Converting previous Joomla templates
Migrating a template from J1.5 to J3
StackOverflow - converting a J2.5 to J3 ...
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jdoc: include in Joomla
Starting from this sentence in Joomla docs:
The jdoc:include statement is a Joomla! template's method of
displaying content specific to the page being viewed. There are
various jdoc:include ...
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How to convert / migrate a Joomla 2.5 template into Joomla 3
The process of converting a Joomla 2.5 template into 3.4 is removing deprecated and removed functions.
It's more difficult if the template has older legacy functions from Joomla 1.6, and 1.7.
Here ...
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Uncategorized category in Joomla 2.5
First of all, Joomla 2.5 is not supported anymore. If you're just getting started with Joomla, I highly recommend you begin with Joomla 3.
when I deleted [..the uncategorized category..], I couldn'...
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Is there a way to change the column names in user manager?
Yes, it's possible using language overrides. In your admin area, go to Extensions -> Language(s), and select Overrides in the left menu. Make sure you select the desired language in the "...
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How to get the Joomla Update option to appear on the Components menu?
Are you trying to update to 2.5.28 (the last J2.5 release)? If so then download https://mirror.myjoomla.io/Joomla_2.5.x_to_2.5.28-Stable-Patch_Package.zip and install it into your site just like an ...
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Extension for blogging with subdomain like joomla.org
Easyblog is a good extension, you can use it. The problem of the subdomain is not something that you can manage from the blog extension.
You have 2 options:
create aliases subdomain, for example ...
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Using Joomla! user account for authenticating to a Laravel application
as Valentin Despa say
"I can imagine it could be quite easy to draft a solution where you expose an RESTful API via a component which allows you to authenticate the users."
A non REST solution is to ...
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Stopping a redirect in .htaccess
You are commenting out the RewriteRule to the examplesite.org.au site, but before the rewriteRule you have the RewriteCond for the Server_Port, which lefts orphaned and looks to be the issue here.
So, ...
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Joomla 2.5 Smart Search - search as exact phrase by default
Are you using an associated menu item for the Search Results? If so, you should be able to go on the OPTIONS tab and change the "Search For" to "Exact Phrase." If using the module, make sure you set ...
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How to add/remove menu item programmatically?
Assuming the menu option has a suitable CSS selector e.g. "item-135", it could be hidden via CSS.
You could create a custom HTML module to add the appropriate code to the applicable page(s). Set the ...
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How to check Joomla version if I've no accessed to the backend?
My initial comment about not being able to get the version from an external website is invalid.
I then went on to write a script which does exactly this which I added as an answer.
The online tool:
...
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Purpose of metadata.xml
So the purpose of metadata.xml is storing the data that need to be shared across layouts:
each layout.xml inside of your view tmpl directory extends metadata.xml.
So if you need to put some request ...
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upgrade form 2.5 to 3.6
In Joomla 3.0, Registry::loadJSON() was removed as mentioned here, so you need to update this.
Open the following file and go to line 40:
C:\wamp\www\web\templates\hdchannel\html\mod_menu\...
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Website error when I backed up my website from my old web host and restored the site onto my new web host
I recommend you first make sure the new hosting service can support Joomla. Download a fresh copy of Joomla which is currently version 3.6.0, and install it with the sample data. If you get that ...
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Update from 2.5.28 to 3.5.1 then to 3.6 on PHP 5.6 everything works except joomla update or database fix cause these errors
You have an inconsistent database state.
Joomla! is trying to run the instructions in
administrator/components/com_admin/sql/updates/mysql/3.0.0.sql
which are designed to update your database ...
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Send a cURL POST request to an external url with parameters from controller
Firstly 2.5.9 is 4 and a half years old and has a number of known security holes.
Secondly, it sounds like you want to make a curl post request and not any kind of redirect.
If the email is sent ...
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Frustrating upgrade J2.5 to J3 not working
I am a big fan of SP Transfer. You can migrate over the database table pretty easily that way.
https://www.kainotomo.com/products/sp-transfer
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How to stop Joomla 2.5 from disabling PHP
FIXED:
The culprit was a personal editor choice set in the user profile section.
I changed this to Editor - None, resubmitted the disobedient code (without comment tags), and it worked like a charm!
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What is best approach to show the component page in popup-modal window without header and footer?
I have used the Modal plugin from Regular Labs to do something like you describe. There is a free version and a Pro version available.
Their plugin is easy to use and with minimum reading of their ...
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How to display module in component area
Try this
jimport('joomla.application.module.helper');
// this is where you want to load your module position
$modules = JModuleHelper::getModules('header');
foreach($modules as $module)
...
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Do I need to complete the cookie domain and path information in Joomla?
The ‘Domain’ Attribute
• With domain set, cookies will be sent to that domain
and all its subdomains
• The risk with subdomains is lower than when scoped to
parent domain, but still relevant
• Remove ...
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JFolder::create: Could not create directory
You can change the owner of Joomla folders to your apache server user.
You can find the apache server user with the following command:
ps aux | grep -v root | grep apache | cut -d\ -f1 | sort | ...
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Hide Joomla module on blog detail page
The Advance Module Manager is the solution. As it also removes the module positions, if module is not assigned to Menu items in (in AMM Assignment in the concerned module settings). The free version ...
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