cedTag 2.5.5 for J2.5 Released

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Created on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:34

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 June 2012 13:27

Published on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:34

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CedTag  has been updated to version 2.5.5 and correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice new features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the code if not all has been now rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

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cedThumbnails 2.5.7 for J2.5 Released

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Created on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:28

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:35

Published on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:28

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CedThumbnails has been updated to version 2.5.7 and contains 4 new features and correct a critical bug for both Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5. For existing users the update will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates. If you do not have this currently installed, you can click the link below and install as normal via the Extensions Manager.

What’s new?

BUG: Highly critical bug that was under some conditions leading to infinite loop and as a result lead to too many open connections from and to your server.

NEW: Better algorithm to clean and remove invalid images,

NEW: Status icon in the administrator panel to help you detecting misconfiguration of your server and in the future help troubleshooting installation issues,

NEW: Specify the image dimensions in the source code, which improves the page score according to Google Page speed. (thanks to Puneet for the idea)

NEW: plugins oriented architecture for rendering and a cleaner controller for the plugin, this will allow me to add new output more easily,

Full list of changes available in GIT commit 99f25840fd3c0f15b864f45c7321cd42820aa2f5

Joomla Mootools and jQuery Compatibility

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Created on Monday, 21 May 2012 11:31

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In this series of post I will outline some common techniques to help Joomla extensions development.

As you know Joomla is shipped with Mootools library which assign $ also to Ajax. Here is 2 tips that will allow you to use jQuery scripts without any modifications (most of the time you will find tips to assign jQuery to something else than $ and rewrite your scripts)

First it is recommended to include always mootools first to avoid jQuery conflict issues

JHTML::_('behavior.mootools');
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$document->addScript(JURI::root() . "media/com_cedtag/js/jquery.1.7.2.min.js");

then to run jQuery in noConflict mode. Note that here I do not assign jQuery to any alias.

$document->addScriptDeclaration("jQuery.noConflict();");

Till here, this is what you will find on all Joomla forums, posts over the internet. The last tips is what make the difference!

Instead of using a different alias for the jQuery object (when using noConflict), you can write your jQuery code by wrapping it all in a closure. This can be done in the document.ready function

$script = "jQuery(function($) {
              $();
       });";
$document->addScriptDeclaration($script);

This way you are not force to rewrite your scripts to use another alias (replacing $ with jquery alias for example in all your scripts). This make inclusion of jQuery really easy!

Happy Coding!

cedTag 2.5.3 for J2.5 Released

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Created on Monday, 21 May 2012 08:20

Last Updated on Monday, 21 May 2012 08:20

Published on Monday, 21 May 2012 08:20

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CedTag  has been updated to version 2.5.3 and correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the codehas been rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

What’s new

NEW: Auto completion of tags in frontend and backend using jQuery. You can add new tags, search and remove tags without fearing creating duplicates!
NEW: Joomla ACL support,
NEW: Add basic support for themes, still need some css correction for optimal results
NEW: Use confirmation popup windows for all delete/clear operations,
NEW: New option to switch off tags title in front page,
NEW: No white background in simple.css for people loving their black background as default,
NEW: cedTag is now having no warnings/errors in PHP error level E_STRICT
BUG:  I cant disable cedTag on front page when i disable it any thing not change...i want show tags only on full article view...
BUG:  Working update manager: starting at version 2.5.3 you can update with one click in the update manager.
BUG: Did remove a hack of me for testing -> it was not possible to switch off the add tags button in frontend since i fixcoded to true :-(
BUG: Correct issue in editor xtd plugin blocking users to edit/view articles in frontend

Code cleaning

• Rewrite 90% of all query string to use the $query object api of joomla
• Did clean the content plugin a lot,

CedTag is used on this site with more than 5000 tags in 2200 articles.

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!