Interesting about Joomla! CMS

In this post I’ll describe some ways, which will allow testing the pda version of a site on usual computer.

Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices.

Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer extension. It allows to display page how it will be displayed on a handheld computer. Also for Firefox there is User Agent Switcher plugin. Read the rest of this entry »

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Version 2.1.2 of a mambot is released:

• Working with the utf-8 codepage is fixed.
• The option to change gzip compression for a pda is added.

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This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Changes in the new version:

• Now there is no division into “pda-bot” and “pda-subdomain-bot”. All is set up within the framework of one plugin.
• It is possible to remove optionally pictures (img) and others tags (iframe, object, applet, embed. script) which can seem to you “superfluous” in the version for a pda.
• It is possible to set a name of a subdomain (not necessarily pda.*).

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Today is 2nd birthday of Joomla!

In honour of this event Joomla! 1.5 RC2 [codename: Endeleo] has been released.

Some improvements and areas of changes are listed below:

• Router refactoring solving a range of bugs
• Media Manager refactoring, moving this to MVC standards
• Updated scripts (version); mootools, tinyMCE, Xstandard
• Core template improvements
• Template language installer support
• … and of course a lot more

Note: due to the Router refactoring there will be known issues with SEF url’s.

Important, you need to upgrade! In the current RC1 we found three security issues, one SQL injection, one XSS, and a few full path disclosure vulnerabilities. Those security issues are solved in the new release.

Where we go from here: as you might have read on a recent blog, we will have at least one more Release Candidate (RC3) and hope to move to a Stable release from there on.

Joomla! 1.5RC and Joomla! 1.0.13 have been released!

Tags: joomla, captcha

Now it is a turn to embed captcha in registration form and lost password form. Though the last is not very much necessary (it is to complete the picture).

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Tags: joomla, captcha

As it is known, the contact form in Joomla! can be used easily for automatic delivery of a spam (that is, instead of a e-mails database, it is quite enough to have a database of the sites created using Joomla!). To be protected from this, we’ll add CAPTCHA on contact form. As well as in previous article (CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form), we’ll use “kcaptcha” script, though it is possible to embed any other captcha-script in the same way.

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