Archived entries for Joomla

Fix for mainmenu-xx in Joomla SEF urls

When converting a Joomla 1.0 site to 1.5 and activating SEF URLs, you may discover that the URLs suddenly have the menuname in them. For instance like this: http://example.com/about-us-mainmenu-12. This is because of changes to aliases in the migration process. A menu item titled “About us” might have had the alias “about-us” in Joomla 1.0, but in Joomla 1.5 it is given the alias “about-us-mainmenu-12″ after the migration, where 12 is the menu item’s ID, or Itemid. Here is a fix you can run on your database to correct all of this.

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Installing Nooku Framework with the symlinker

In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can set up Nooku Framework from SVN on a local installation of Joomla, by using the symlinker tool. The symlinker is a handy tool, because it can just as easily be used in the same way when you are developing your own extensions.

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Norwegian translation for JomSocial 1.5

We just finished the Norwegian language package for the Joomla community component, JomSocial, version 1.5. It comes with an install file for easy installation using the installation manager in backend. If (or should we just say “when”?) you find errors, bad grammar or typos, just post it in the comments below and we’ll update the files. We’ll also be translating the new JomSocial 1.6 as soon as we get around to it.

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Hide view or layout in the Joomla menu manager

If you are building your own component, and you have layouts or entire views you wish to hide from the backend menu manager, you can do so with very little effort and some bits of XML.

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There be blog!

After many years of carefully keeping all our darkest secrets to ourselves, we have come to a crossroads, and decided to do a sudden left turn. Once a Norwegian-only Joomla website, bedre.no was recently converted into a website run by Django. Today, with Django being all promiscuous obviously, it officially also sprouted an English bastard of a blog, that is running WordPress for the time being.

Seriously though, and without trying to blend political colours or Reinhardt tour stories into this, we have always regarded the community as one of Joomla’s greatest assets. I have rarely, if ever, had a seemingly impossible Joomla problem that I could not run by the community in some way, and get help solving it. This, I hope, will be a way for us give outsiders a little peek into what we’re up to, and at the same time contribute to open source communities out there with helpful quality content, tips & tricks, or whatever else we find fitting.

We do, quite according to popular belief, spend most of our time implementing Joomla solutions for our clients. So regarding us fraternising by testing Django and WordPress on ourselves, I offer you an attempt on a translation of a Norwegian saying:

“He who thinks he has finished learning, has not learned anything, he’s just finished.”



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