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Shib Login Module and Plugin help please
Hello Community,
This is my first time using a joomla list serv. =) if it is the incorrect
one please direct me to the correct one. thanks.
I'm working on extending some shibboleth modules and a plugin. I have
phase one working which is a simple login. now I have to extend it more
(yeah...the boss...) so that if it auto creates the account, it will then
Need help to understand Jhtml::_
*Please, someone can shed some light or refer me some documentation or
links so I can understand below lines of codes which are taken from
a tutorial for designing back-end forms. *
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* JHtml::_('grid.id', $i, $item->item_id);
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Html::_('jgrid.published',
$item->published, $i, 'activities.', true, 'cb');
Form generation via xml
Hi there,

the form generation via xml is fine.

Nonetheless I'd love the labels to have either a class or an id. For
when layouting a form, I've got to address a special label via css.

I've found a horrible, yet working workaround in overrides with
preg_replace (dont't ask!). But the clean solution would be to add
How to develop categories and Sub categories
Hi,,everyone to all,
i nedd assistance from your side,,i develop small
components How to develop categories and Sub categories from joomla admin
components mmmis there any idea pls reply or given some example codings
,,,and packages to easy lines

Thanks
Josef
video not found or access denied
I have " JW Player " for website.
But i have get this error message "video not found or access denied".
also checked for audio fil but it is correct.
Please give me the solution.
Bridging classes for the new MVC in the CMS
Cross-posting from the platform list:
I think there's a better way to approach this looking at the practical
side of how the CMS can use the new classes without the use of interfaces.
[link]
It seems to me the simplest approach is to copy non-interface versions
Regarding - Music player for websites
How to play aac files on JW Web music Player.

Please tell me the web player which is useful for both audio and
video.

I needs web player mostly for ( MP3,MP4,3GP,AAC) files.
Best Practices mind dump
Since there have been some posts about best practices, I thought I'd
mention some of my own thinking on this topic. The coding standards are
great for some aspects, but they kind of bypass a lot of things.
So, a short brain dump of my own thought processes:
1) Don't repeat code from parent classes, call it directly. For example,
Custom field types in xml for plugins
Hi, really stuck on this one and would really like some advice.

I am using a custom field type and following the examples in the docs
[link]
I made the folder and placed the custom field type in it and then can
see this in the xml of my plugin, I am using a custom field type as I
Tutorial: Making_non-core_language_packs_in_2.5
FYI

Here is a new Tutorial concerning making extensions lang packs:
[link]

Thanks for Matias (Kunena) for sharing his specific script.

JM
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befor and after content
Hello friend
who can help me to use plugin after and before content or in authors
position?
how can use this three position in our plugin?
thank you
HTML + JS + php ?
Hi all,

I create a new component and I need to include a JS function in a HTLM
code to execute a php file....

I suppose that I must write it this way :

_*HTML*_ : <input type="button" value="<?php echo JTEXT::_('NEXT'); ?>"
onclick="/name_of_my_js_functi on()/;
set_spans_show('sp_number3','' ,'sp_number4','next');" >
Component installation issue with more than one manifest file
Ok, this thing is kinda weird, but i think Joomla devs should take care o
(sooner or later).
This is the situation:
you have a component that uses a library (in this case FrameworkOnFramework
developed by Nicholas of Akeeba - sorry man, i always forget your
surname-), so you should install it within your component installation.
JModelAdmin and another config option for plugin group???
Hi @ll,
Currently one can pass a config array to the JModelAdmin that can contain
the names of events to call on before and after save...
This is all great, but what about adding another option to set the plugin
group?
Currently we do:
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('c ontent');
If we did JPluginHelper::importPlugin(th is->plugin_group);
multi authors
hello friend i start to write multi authors for gplus so i create some code
but i don't know how to create multi on xml file
lets take the exam :
for example i am first user then put the id gplus on balank box the put the
customize name and other thing for user 1 and then select second user and
go on
Extension unpublished in JED
Dear Joomla! fans:

My extension got unpublished due to a downtime in our website, which is now
solved. However I have no idea how to proceed with the re-publication. I
checked this page:
[link] and my
situation falls within the "Broken Links" case. I have tried to enter a
Make JTemplate object oriented and hook to JHTML
Currently the template code is not very object oriented. The current
setup is as follows:
Every view has a $template variable set to the name of the template.
Views build dual paths, one to the template folder using the template name
and one to their own path and load views via checking for a file in the
[GSoC] Language Installer Tool, I would like to heard your thoughts
Hi, this summer I will be creating a Language Installer Tool for
Joomla! CMS for the Google Summer of Code 2012 program. The mentors
of the project are Jeremy Wilken, Jean-Marie Simonet, Marijke
Stuivenberg.

Your feedback is very important to make this project succeed. This is
why I would like to ask you to check this two short videos here:
Make JProfile more useful
At the moment, JProfile is a bit of an "all or nothing" for the CMS, and
also a little on the low side.
By all of nothing, I mean that for JProfile to run you need to enable
debug, which means the database drivers will ALSO log all their queries,
along with a number of other debug options. They can get quite memory
How to display XML datas with PhP ?
Hi all,

I would like to recover some data of the XML file to display them with PHP :
<author> .....</author>
<version> ....</version>
etc

I've tried this :
[code]<?php echo $this->xml->version;?>[/code]
I've got this notice :
*Notice*: Trying to get property of non-object in
*C:\wamp\www\test-seo\administ rator\components\com_seowizard \views\seowizard\tmpl\default. php*
Special Chars at Username
Dear Developers,

on my website i see sometimes member usernames has special characters like
* and names with ',"

I want to ask very kindly because i do not have a lot of knowledge about
this.

Is it ok to allow usernames or only names with this characters?

thanks.
CSS background images not found when using SEF URL's
Hi,
I have a Joomla page that shows all the images linked via it's css when
called with this
URL: [link],
but not when called with the SEF
URL: [link].
Re: [jcms] force renew XML config of module
Hi Sven,

I think it is not possible, if you find solution then just inform me.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Sven Schultschik <

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Opinions on using Bootstrap or another framework in next major release
We're trying to get consensus on whether or not Bootstrap or another framework is included in the next major release. Ron has posted a questionairre of sorts here:

[link]

One of the reasons for using a framework like this is to offer a standard for markup so that devs won't have to recreate the wheel for using ui elements not in core extensions, extensions will be more consistent and templates will "just work" with more 3PD extensions.
Relative to protocol URLs (network-path reference) to solve problems when you use HTTP+HTTPS
[link]

Maybe most people ignore it, but "//" prefix is an awesome thing:

<a href="//[link]"> in a webpage means

[link] if your browser is showing an http resource
[link] if your browser is showing an https resource
3rd extensions vs com_finder
Seen that the content of K2 is indexed by com_finder, but the content is not
JEvents.
Yes, I installed their search plugins, but it did not work.
So what does that do to the content of other components to be indexed by
com_finder?
thank you
Users Component Registration Question
On lines 81 and 86 of
JPATH_SITE.'components/com_use rs/controllers/registration.ph p', after admin
verification success and activation success (respectively), the component
should set the redirect to the login view, not the registration view. The
user has already completed the registration form, and the next available
CMS List issues?
I've been experiencing the same problems as Gary. There are times my posts
do not ever appear on this list. Other times, like earlier today, my post
did not appear for 15 hours -- and showed up as deleted in the interim.
Are there problems with the list, Sam? I have not noticed this with the
Framework list. But it has also happened on the General list.
Best Practice: Get your HEAD in order
It seems Joomla does not yet conform to this
[link]
cheers,
[jcms] Displaying data from database to the site
Greetings,

Am kinda new to Joomla development,

I followed the tutorial from official website on how to create the MVC
based component, but according to my requirements, I failed n displaying
the contents to the front site.

in lesson 6 (Using the Database) it shows how to display only one message
Show Version After Extension Update
I've been playing around with the one-click extension update. It seems
like it would be nice to show the new extension version in the success
message.
We can do this now if we hard-code the version in a language string.
But it seems like we should be able to get the version number out of
the extension manifest. We have the the $parent object, which is an
Proof of Concept - JavaScript Library Management
After talking with many members of the Joomla community, I have written a
proof-of-concept plugin for managing JavaScript libraries. Rouven has also
adapted that work as a proof-of-concept at the platform level. A summary of
both efforts and an explanation of the reasoning behind these approaches
Joomla Developer Best Practices
Hello there,

I have been looking for some kind of definitive guide in regards to
Joomla Developer Best Practices and could only find the following
which seems a bit dated and sparse...

[link]
[link]
Plugin pollution: feature or bug?
One of the weird things I've found with Joomla!, the CMS[as opposed to the
platform] is that with one exception, plugins suffer from cross-category
pollution.
As an example:
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('c ontent');
$results = $dispatcher->trigger('onConten tPrepare',...)
Fairly intuitive that this will trigger all the enabled content plugins
Error while using fulltext filed of jos_content table in query inside JModel
*
When I use id, fulltext as fields in query select statement(
select("id,fulltex")
I got following error message
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
C:\xampp\htdocs\25\components\ com_test\views\article_list\tm pl\default.php
on line 2
however if i use * in that case my component runs fines.
Adding language file in joomla 1.5
I've mentioned my component name in menu tag.I've mentioned this on
xml file also.But the language file didnt change in joomla 1.5

language/en-GB/en-GB.com_exams msstaff.sys.ini

COM_EXAM="Exam"

Xml file

<languages folder="admin">

<language tag="en-GB">language/en-GB/en- GB.com_examsmsstaff.sys.ini</
Object oriented components , any plan?
Hi folks,
I've recently "reverse engineered" the way Joomla loads components (so the
JSite and JComponentHelper classes), and noticed that if components are now
fully structured and object oriented (controllers, views, models, and so
on), the loading and execution is still done the old-fashioned way:
3-.0 Admin Template projects - asking for Feedback
Folks,
after this post
[link]
I downloaded the project itself and installed it
[link]
Obviously it is unfinished and my feedback will not concern the
unfinished parts.
(No descriptions displayed during installation, Options toolbar
CMS, Content, and Joomla Access Policies
I'm trying to get a handle on how the CMS implements the Joomla Platform
for access control
What it appears to me is that the CMS breaks up access into 2 distinct
categories, at least for content.
1) Viewing Content
2) All other actions[edit, add, publish/change state, etc]
For 'all other actions' it uses the Joomla Platform Access control system
Set cookies to Httponly?
Hi All,
I've just built a website with a simple component that matches businesses
by type (like computerised dating for manufacturers :-) ). But the client
has insisted that my work is insecure because the cookies are not set to
httponly. I do not use cookies in my code. Nor are there any settings for
Field imagepos on #__contact_details
Hi all,
I've received a bug report as you can see from this mail
[link]
about an error on Postgresql installation, but it's related to
"imagepos" field of #__contact_details table.
This field is never used inside "Contact Manager: Contact" form, never
Security fixes on plattform
As we never will use the latest version of the plattform, im wondering how
we want to deal with security issues that belongs to the plattform.
Does the plattform provide patches for older versions, or would we have our
own "patched" library ?
Lets talk about the future
Responding to Nick's point,
It is true, that the standard output of the Joomla "SEF" urls can be overridden if you have the necessary coding knowledge (I had to do this myself on the network of sites that I maintain), or if you want to take the time to make all those menu items.
However, the point I was trying to make is that, for the survival of Joomla in a competitive market, you shouldn't have to. Many webmasters I know are turned off by this. If the goal is to try and make Joomla the premier CMS, then this needs to be an out-of-the-box features, and not have to rely on hacks and workarounds. Otherwise busy web designers will go to a CMS that will do this, simply to save time (time = money, after all), and Joomla will be relegated to the status of a hobby CMS, great to play around with, not useful for serious business sites (I happen not to believe that, but it is becoming more of a common sentiment.) That is a fate I would hate to see happen to the CMS I love. I would personally love to contribute to fixing this in the core, but to be quite honest I do not feel my coding skills are quite up to snuff yet.
Ajax and the Joomla Framework
Hello all,

I have made a plus / minus counter for Kunena per post. This is a Ajax
script that plus by 1 the counter or minus 1. This is saved in the
database. Now I would like to use the Joomla Framework to connect to
the database and update the table. But since it is a Ajax script that
calls the php script I am out of the Framework.
[jcms} Let's Talk About The Future
One of the main things I think developers are missing when it comes to Joomla! being a major player as a professional CMS is the poor quality and lack of SEO support. When you can't have a URL (article from a category Blog or List) without the article ID number, and no native way to add expires headers, or to bump Javascript loading to the bottom of the page (and yes, page speed quality does affect SEO), then people trying to build truly competitive online commerce sites will turn to another solution.
Re: [jcms] Lets talk about the futrure
Hi Nils. As far as I know, the big-picture changes for the CMS that we have
discussed for the next 1-2 years include: (a) unified content (which will
hopefully include some flavor of CCK); (b) multisite capability, including
a staging site capability; (c) site backup built into the core; (d) perhaps
Let's talk about the future
I'm tired of reading things like "that belongs to cms" and sentences like
"maybe we should maybe start thinking about letting the CMS and let it run
its course, and build UCM into a new, next-gen application" shows that
there is a lot more than little divergences.
When the news comes out that Joomla splits to Plattform and CMS i thought