Interesting about Joomla! CMS

Tags: joomla, captcha

Allow me to begin a series of articles devoted to embedding of CAPTCHA in Joomla. I know only one project, allowing such embedding, it is Security Images. But this component has some disadvantage, e.g. its size is 1.5Mb in zip-archive. I’ll tell how to embed such a protection by own strength.

For the present I plan following articles:

• CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Contact form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Registration form and Lost password form
• CAPTCHA by own strength: Frontend login form

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Tags: joomla, module, popular of late

Today Roman Beranek has offered small improvement of the module, allowing to show tooltips with a number of hits the article has. I have slightly completed his idea and I call your attention to version 1.1.1 of the “Popular of late”.

Tags: joomla

Recently at forum.joomla.org RobInk (Global Moderator of the forum) has written, that

as you could see in the 1.0.x SVN changelog, work is done for a new release which will be 1.0.13. I have to note here that 1.0.x is in maintenance mode, so only security issues will be fixed, so not all the bugs listed on the tracker will be fixed. There is no date set for the new 1.0.13 release, this still needs testing.

Well, 1.0.12 is pretty stable and there are some significant improvements made in 1.0.13.

Also the information about Joomla! 1.0.13 has appeared on Joomla! performance testing where comparisons of various Joomla! Releases (Joomla! 1.0.13 RC, Joomla! 1.5 beta, and Joomla! 1.5 beta 2) on speed of page generation were spent. By the way, as results have shown, Joomla! 1.0.13 on PHP 5.2.2 with APC (Alternative PHP Cache) allows to reach the greatest speed.

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Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template

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.

I suggest testing version 2.0beta of a pda-mambot and pda-subdomain-mambot (for previous version see “PDA-version of Joomla’s site” and “The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain“).

Capabilities:
1. To appoint for the pda-version different “main” page (homepage).
2. Set up display of a template:
- There are 6 positions in template
- It is possible to change names of positions from mambot settings
- To output pathway or not (or to don’t output only on “main” page)
- To call mosMainbody on the “main” page or not (i.e. to output the “main” page completely or to keep modules only)
3. A capability to transform page to the utf-8 encoding (for it the library iconv is necessary).
4. Completely set up head-part of the page:
- Joomla’s standard or simplified head block
- A capability to embed styles in the page instead of using separate file
- Set up of xml-head and doctype-head
5. A choice of content-type heading: text/html or text/xhtml.
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There was a failure on a server therefore a site some days did not work. Now the site functions normally.

Tags: joomla, css, trick

Working on a site often there is a problem to limit length of pathway or heading of article since very long text can corrupt design of page. Usually when the text turns out too long, that does not get into one line, and it is carry over to the next line. However, for some reason very few people knows, that it is possible to tune up CSS so that the long text was cut off till the certain length, and in the end was ellipsis. For this purpose it is enough to prescribe in style (an example for pathway):
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Now I write version 2.0 of the pda-mambot-and-template. In the new version a plenty of options of the mambot which will make use of the mambot more convenient and adjusted is expected. If you have any offers in this connection write them in comments to this post.

Through some time the beta-version will be available to testing.