Posts Tagged 'joomla'

Why I Upgrade to GPLv3 my Joomla components

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Category: Supporting

Published on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 23:47

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I will move all my Joomla 1.5 components code to the new GPLv3 ...

Joomla! tagging solution

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Category: News

Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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I have way too much article now on this site...I just can't find any articles anymore (except with Google). That's the right time to introduce tags!

Tags are used to store information about a document, image or other online content to help searching. Social networking web sites such as Flickr.com (photo-sharing) and del.icio.us (bookmark sharing) use member-created tags as a means of organizing and popularizing content.

Unfortunately Joomla! does not have this functionality in its core... but thanks to Joomla! extensible plugin architecture, many solutions are available:

Joomla! Tags from Phil-Taylor (http://www.joomla-tags.com/)

The "oldest" and with famous Phil Taylor support, you pay for a premium component and a very good software. Only drawback: it is not open source and free as in beer.

• Simple - Very Simple!
• Inclusive - No programming needed!
• Powerful - Total Control
• Flexible - Add tags in many ways
• Unlimited - Tags creates new pages
• Google Bait - Google loves Tags
• PHP5 Supported !!!!
• 100% Translatable
• More feature being developed daily at the moment (May 2007)
• Now 100% compatible with: Fireboard, Joomla 1.5.x, Joomla 1.0.x, Official SMF Bridge, OpenSEF, SEF Advance and Joom!Fish !!!
• Joomla Tags is a Joomla extension, two modules and mambot that gives you the power and ability to tag content and to produce tag links, keyword clouds and pages within your Joomla Web site
• Works on Joomla 1.5.x WITH or WITHOUT legacy plugin enabled!
• Works on Joomla 1.0.x

Jtags (http://jacekzielinski.com/)

Free open source Joomla! Tagging Solution. Powerful & Simple!

While editing, below the article text box, there is a new text field "insert tags" like in the picture:

• User is able to tag content without clicking on Insert Tags button.
  Tags are saved automatically just after article is saved, so everything is saved after clicking on the main Save button.
• The demo site of Jtags is here
• Download from here

Joomla Tags Component and Tag Cloud Module

A promising component with Ajax and nearly all functionality of joomla! Tags, it is for sure not as mature and still in alpha stage for both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5.x

Homepage: http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/products/joomla-tag-component.html
Forum: http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,54/

Installation:
You'll need to install the Tag Component and the Tag Content Plugin and publish it in order to get it working.
Optional are the Tag Cloud Module and the Auto Tag Plugin.

Tag Cloud Component Features:

• It can be linked to the menu, to display a tag cloud in its own page. eg: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/tags/
• It can display tagged content in a list: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/tags/ireland/
• It can display an RSS format for each tag content: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/index2.php?option=com_tag&tag=ireland&f=rss20&no_html=1
• Preview of tagged articles
• Related tags views - Tags related to a set of tags
• Tags administration, publish, add, edit, delete, filters etc.

Joomla Tag Content Plugin Features:

• Displays the tags inline in articles
• Registered users can add tags.
• Adding tags is done via AJAX in the background, while the tags update automatically.

Joomla Tag Cloud Module Features:

• Displays a tag cloud - alphabetical, with tag density determining size of the tag.
• Displays a related tag cloud - A density based cloud for the content being viewed, whether section, category, or list of tagged articles, or list of tags.

Joomla Auto Tag Plugin Features:

• Automatically tags each Content Item when viewed.
• At the moment, single keyword tags are pulled from the title, however we plan to add full context analysis, 2,3 word phrases, stemming etc. in the future versions.

So you can expect to enjoy tags on my site in a near future... as soon as I did test all 3 solutions on my test site.

ContinuousBuild4Joomla project submitted to JoomlaCode.org

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Category: Continuous Build

Published on Tuesday, 09 December 2008 00:00

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I will commit soon a first draft (alpha) of what is expected to bring continuous build to any Joomla! component (or event to Joomla! core itself ;-))

You are free to join the project, all documentation effort stay at the moment in my WIKI

Guest Book Akobook 5.1.2 for Joomla 1.5

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Category: AkobookPlus

Published on Tuesday, 16 December 2008 00:00

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Modified version of the great Akobook, this version now protect JOOMLA Guest Book entry from
spammers using recaptcha or securityimages 5 and run natively in Joomla! 1.5

BUG: When using SecurityImages in AkobookPlus, it shows a label called SECURITYIMAGES_LABEL. Looks like a missing variable.
missing keys in all languages except english

BUG: admin comment form was not able to add smiley as the form name was misspelled in HTML code

NEW: fully XHTML compliance, for both front end and back end panel, validated with CSE HTML validations and W3C online validations service
 

NEW: E_STRICT for PHP reporting errors, so code fully portable and wont generated silent error in logs.

NEW: fully localized including java script popup

NEW: start of selenium test suite to ensure quality of future release

BUG: unable to edit language files, and misleading error message  was displayed

Your css file is /components/com_simpleboard/forum.css
You need to chmod this to 766 in order for the config to be updated

BUG: paging through items in admin panel was not working

BUG: missing translation entries in foreign languages (but not translated)

NOTE: Akobook do not delete existing table -> this is a feature that allow you to safely update akobook without having to backup of your table.

 Download HERE

Joomla! unofficial mirror updated

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Category: News

Published on Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:00

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I’ve just update my unofficial Joomla! mirror with the latest version (1.5.10), starting from now on, the list of files is generated using Snif (simple and nice index file)

This mirror exist solely for people living dangerously :-) aka people that use a very old version of Joomla! and do not find anymore a way to go to the latest version (Joomla! do not have all version to date as download)

Joomtwitter a twitter module for Joomla!

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Category: Development

Published on Friday, 12 June 2009 00:00

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Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

A very simple module with a great output layout that require flash 9 for properly operations. I use it on my site (at the bottom)

• it output valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Since it is a Joomla! module, it is easily customizable and can be place anywhere in your Joomla! template
• It allow all operations of Twitter on your blog! people can reply or follow you in one click

3 template profiles are available: Revo, Velvetica and Smooth

Some settings:

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Announcing Joomla! photowidget for Smugmug, Picasa, Flickr RSS

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Category: Development

Published on Wednesday, 08 July 2009 00:00

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I did integrate the Flickr widget from RoyTanck.com as a Joomla module. This version do not depend on Roy’s site, and run offline if needed as i rewrite the RSS parsing code myself. For now you can see it live running on the right side of Roy’s site

• Your Smugmug/ Picasa or Flickr RSS feed. To get feed URL one for your Flickr photo stream, simply go to your photo stream's page and right-click the little orange RSS icon at the bottom. Select ‘Copy link location’ or ‘Copy shortcut’ and paste it into the form below. For Picasa, there’s a link called ‘RSS’ at the bottom right of the ‘My Photos’ page, and a small icon on the sidebar on other pages. For Smugmug the icon is located at the bottom of the page.
• The dimensions for the widget. This depends almost entirely from the layout of your website. Square aspect rations work best (equal width and height). At very large sizes (400px and up) the thumbnails might have bigger pixels than usual.
• The background color for the widget. You can use Colorpicker.com to get the right value for your website. The selected color serves only as a backup if ‘Use background transparency’ is selected.
• RSS feed is also optional photowidget also support up to 10 images on your server.

Before releasing I need to clean the code a bit, test the installer, write a small documentation, submit module to Joomla! extension.. maybe tomorrow, but before the week end for sure!

Joomla_1.5.13-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.01.00.zip

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Sunday, 26 July 2009 00:00

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Only for SecurityImages 5.1.x and Joomla! 1.5.13

Allow login views, login modules, register, lost password, lost user account and contact section to be
protected by SecurityImages

• Are for Joomla! 1.5.13 only and SecurityImages 5.1.x or later
• 14 files has been altered, mostly views, and com_contact/com_user controller, click on picture below
  for more details
• Download file Joomla_1.5.13-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.01.00.zip (33kB) and
  overwrite file on your server
• Go to Joomla! control panel and HIT at least SAVE configuration once, this will add a new boolean value
  (true or false) in Joomla! configuration for using SecurityImages.

• Download / Details
• Keep up to date with the Joomla! 1.5 patches RSS
• How to install documentation

Watermarking your images with ImageMagick

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Category: How To

Published on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 00:00

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Digital watermarking is the process of possibly irreversibly embedding information into a digital signal. The signal may be audio, pictures or video, for example. If the signal is copied, then the information is also carried in the copy. In visible watermarking, the information is visible in the picture or video. Typically, the information is text or a logo which identifies the owner of the media. [Wikipedia]

I decide to go with an offline watermarking first, but you can let any Joomla!® extension watermark picture on the fly using php and .htaccess (at the cost of additional CPU server resources).

Why Watermarking pictures?

There is a lot of reasons, among others:

• To limit images stealing, advanced users will still be able to crop/blur your watermark through!
• To drive more new users/returning visitors to your site, anybody using your images in a forums may want to visit your site if the watermark can be read (don’t use complex logo, except if you have a well known brand)
• To advertise your online work,

Read more: Watermarking your images with ImageMagick

Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Saturday, 16 April 2011 21:19

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Only for SecurityImages 5.1.x and Joomla! 1.5.23
Allow login views, login modules, register, lost password, lost user account and contact section to be
protected by SecurityImages

• Are for Joomla! 1.5.23 only and SecurityImages 5.1.x or later
• 14 files has been altered, mostly views, and com_contact/com_user controller, click on picture below
  for more details
• Download file Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip (33kB) and
  overwrite file on your server with the zip package usign FTP/SCP
• Go to Joomla! control panel and HIT at least SAVE configuration once, this will add a new boolean value
  (true or false) in Joomla! configuration for using SecurityImages.

How to install documentation

Download Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip