Joomla Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Joomla Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Attend a Drupal and Joomla seminar and training (back to back seminars) on November 14, at Makati. Follow this link for full details www.jeromeesperanza.com, or visit TPCEvents.org for details.

Seminar outline:

System Requirements

Localhost and Remote Host Installations

Obtaining Joomla

Build versions and SVN

Installation

Configuration file

Database and SQL data

Uploading the files to the Web server

Frontend management

Backend management

Joomla Extensions (Components, Modules, and Plugins)

Joomla Templates

Known Issues & Error Handling

configuration.php file not writable

Register Globals is set to on – Shared Hosting Problem

.htaccess

Permissions / CHMOD

FTP Layering

php.ini

Security

Joomla Backup and Restoration

Joomla Community and Support

Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS) - http://www.affordaink.ph/

For reliable and cheap continuous inks (ink flow supply systems) products visit this latest web project, Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS), at http://www.affordaink.ph/

Branches can be found all over Metro Manila easily accessible in Greenhills-Virra Mall, St. Francis Square-Ortigas, Market! Market!-Taguig, and a few more branches.

Joomla (CMS) seminar in Ortigas, Pasig on August 22, 2010

Kindly visit and register at TipidPC Events at http://www.tpcevents.org/

CMS- Content Management SystemDrupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and other web-based CMS


Date: Aug 22, 2010 - Sunday
Time: 2:00pm-6:00pm
Speaker: TPC Events Team
Venue: Roofdeck 23 Capinpin Place Capinpin St. San Antonio Village, Ortigas, Pasig City, Philippines
Topics: CMS and other web technologies used for websites, intranets and portals, photo and media galleries, shopping cart, forums, blogs, etc. Primary focus on Joomla.

See you!

Visit also http://www.jeromeesperanza.com

Joomla hands-on training, Quezon City, Philippines

Conducted yet another comprehensive Joomla hands-on training last Dec. 12-13. Participants are already Joomla users so the sessions were adjusted for an advanced coverage of the topic include even Joomla security, SEO, analytics, and more.

If interested for such training in Metro Manila, which is very accessible (being located within the Cubao, Quezon City area), contact ACE I.T. Learning Solutions.

Apache, MySQL and PHP (AMP) for MAC = MAMP

Got an Adobe newsletter this week featuring MAMP which is an acronym that stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Article here: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2009/articles/article2/index.html?trackingid=FBTRR#item3

Just spreading the word...

To note:

"Be aware that the current WAMP installer includes PHP 5.3.0. (to date)... Joomla and Drupal are not yet compatible with PHP 5.3.0. WordPress is compatible with PHP 5.3.0, but you need to make a small edit to the php.ini file to manually set the time zone for your location.

In Drupal, the following error occurs when you run the installation wizard:

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

If you are using WAMP, you can address this error by downloading the latest 5.2.x version of PHP. Click the WAMP icon in the system tray and choose PHP > Version > Get More. The current MAMP installer ships with PHP 5.2.10, so this issue does not affect MAMP and Mac users."

AMP on!

E-Commerce Website project, review of CMS...

Am doing heavy research for an e-commerce pet project these days... to date the ff. are noteworthy:

Magento

Magento is an interesting platform for your e-commerce website. It's modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. It supports a lot of interesting features for a total control of your e-Commerce shop.

Drupal e-commerce

Drupal e-Commerce is a package of modules to let you create your own online store. It is totally free, open source, rich featured and flexible. The system can use PayPal, Authorize.net, eWAY, C.O.D. or you can roll your own.

Zen-Cart

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

CubeCart

CubeCart is an "out of the box" ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

VirtueMart

VirtueMart is not a CMS but an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

FatFreeCart

FatFreeCart is a free shopping cart developed by the team behind E-junkie shopping cart. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

More issues to follow... am sure... :D

Images (or Logos) in the Weblinks for Joomla

The default web links core component of Joomla unfortunately has no option of assigning or uploading images or logos assigned respectively to each weblink item. I am running a organizational site that has a lot member of schools and institutions and having each of its member logos displayed alongside (or somewhere) beside its url or web link item seems a cool thing as. To date, it seems this is not a possible option yet for the current Joomla weblinks core component. Further googling seems to prove that.

Anyway, one component seem to serve that purpose, plus a few gem of layouts!

Try Simple Lists component, check it out here:

• About the developer and component http://opensource.jira.nl/projects/simplelists
• Demo: http://joomla1.demo.jira.nl/index.php?option=com_simplelists&view=simplelist&layout=toggle&category_id=34&Itemid=65

One setback only, you had to veer away from the weblinks component, as this might confuse your not so Joomla-proficient-web admin.

Joomla Hands-on Training

Conducted a Content Management System hands on training using Joomla at ACE I.T. Learning Center, Cubao, Q.C. last 10 May, 2009. Hands down... great and conducive facility... a learning experience as teacher and students alike shared new Joomla experiences, techniques and tips! Looking forward to another session...

Thanks to the ACE men, a cool bunch of folks... visit them here for more hands-on, relevant and useful courses: http://www.ace-itlearning.com.

TPCEvents.Org: Joomla Seminar

El Maestro! Cool crowd here, cool venue and organizers! Next stop... Drupal :D

Joomla 1.5 installation error: Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client

If during a Joomla 1.5 installation, the following error is encountered:

"An error has occurred:

Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively, there could also be a problem with the server's session.save_path. If this is the case, please consult your hosting provider if you don't know how to check or fix this yourself"

don't be alarmed!

And before rushing in and trying complicated steps and changing settings for Apache, PHP, and MySQL (like a few forum threads actually suggest), try simply the following:

• clear the browser's cache (you may not even need to go to advanced internet tools options for this),
• restart your Apache, MySQL and PHP services (you may need to request your webhost for this in live server settings, or in local machine your XAMPP, WAMPServer, etc. restart commands),
• then go back to Joomla installation.
  

Then again, just documenting my experiences... disclaimer applies :D

Joomla 1.5's Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: jinstallationmodel in ../installation/installer/controller.php on line 161

Someone asked me about this error encountered during his Joomla 1.5 installation:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: jinstallationmodel in ../installation/installer/controller.php on line 161

Download and install the latest stable updates and patches that should come with the corresponding installer used.

Check latest Joomla stable patch/update releases here:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=9911

What these patches basically do is to provide updated necessary Joomla files (and folders) which one can upload/save replacing previous default Joomla files and folders.

Patches normally come in zipped/compressed files, extract them first for uploading/saving.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method JException::getNullDate() in ... /installation/installer/helper.php on line 290

Errors:

• Fatal error: Call to undefined method JException::getNullDate() in installation\installer\helper.php on line 290
• Fatal error: Call to undefined method JException::getNullDate() in /installation/installer/helper.php on line 290

During the installation of an undergoing Joomla 1.5 project, I deliberately hit the browser's back button during the initial installation steps (as part of Joomla 1.5 testing, one of those "what would happen if's"). Of course, data has to be resent, thus hitting the back button during the install steps produces this error.

Dilemma:

How to proceed with the installation, or do a re-install of Joomla 1.5 ?

Solutions:

1. Create a new and completely empty file, name it as configuration.php and upload or save it to your joomla root directory (e.g. .../www/joomla-folder/ or .../htdocs/joomla-folder, etc.) replacing the previous configuration.php.

Then go back to the installation process of Joomla 1.5 (http://joomla-site/installation/index.php, or http://www.joomla-site/installation/index.php). You will then have to enter (or re-enter) the details as the installation proceeds. This is part of what they call a manual installation

In my case, the previous installation (that have gone wrong) had reached the "Install sample data", so I had to also drop/delete the initial database created in phpmyadmin (http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ or similar mysql admin tool) to give way to the second, fresh installation.

2. Installation should basically work then. If not, recommended further steps can be found here http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1945/302/

Hope this helps!

Joomla 1.6 Error: "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"

Testing Joomla 1.5 and a few initial observations:

Almost everything is the same with older versions of Joomla, except for the look and feel in the administrative interface, nothing really different that needs much adjusting

However, enabling all default (that come with the package) modules and components as part of the test, a "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded" dialog box error is displayed when refreshing the frontend page. And when clicking OK, the page is otherwise ok and displaying properly.

Don't be alarmed as this is not an issue really. The ff. can be noted which will resolve the error:

Culprit:

Wrapper module is published but has no URL specified to wrap. Earlier Joomla 1.5 versions has the wrapper module published or enabled by the default installation, while the latest Joomla 1.5 to date has this disabled.

Error/s:

"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded" in Firefox. In IE7, page will simply not display. In my case, the error was visible immediately while in some this may not take effect immediately as your site will seem fine for a few days after installation, and will pop eventually.

"The address is not valid" is also displayed in Internet Explorer 7 when the sample data is deleted (when one needs to put in the real stuff).

Solution:

Fill in valid URL in the wrapper module, otherwise disable or unpublish the module until desired.

'Forbidden Access' error and 'tag in POST' error while publishing / editing article in Joomla

Forbidden Access error, and 'tag in POST' error? while posting in http://www.doh.gov.ph/bihc_doh

This has not occurred before: frontend editing saves are rejected with a message 'Forbidden Access (flooding)' - or 'Forbidden Access (tag in POST)'. This is with Joomla 1.0.12 and 1.0.13 versions.

This is either (a) a Joomla built-in security block being triggered, or (b) more likely a server setting perhaps. I'm seeing it especially on Apache 1.1.3x / Unix servers.

If you Save and edit with a few words of plain text, it seems to be OK; but a fair-sized page with plenty of mixed content gets blocked - probably because of the number of HTTP requests at one time?

Of course, it means that frontend editing is impossible, which makes any kind of community use out of the question. Thought this was a joomla issue or server setting, but obviously an extension issue.

Solution:

Turn off security features of SH404SEF, that is of course assuming you have had the extension installed (being the issue here) :D

Forgot your password in Joomla, Drupal, or any other php run cms with mysql database (with management in phpmyadmin)?

Forgot your password in Joomla, Drupal, or any other php run cms with mysql database (with management in phpmyadmin)?

In the event you forget your administrator password or passwords in in Joomla, Drupal, mediawiki, coppermine, etc. (or any opensource php-driven cms with mysql database manageable in phpmyadmin for that matter), a workaround is fortunately available. For newbies, forgetting one's administrator user account's password the only solution will have to be re-installing the entire cms from scratch thus re-creating an administrator account in the process. A solution is as follows:

- Go to site/phpmyadmin (login, of course assuming you have the necessary rights to the database/s)
- Browse for the database, then the table (in the case of Joomla, Drupal, etc. this is commonly the table 'users') intended to be edited
- click edit user, then under the 'Function' column (dropdown list) choose MD5, edit the 'Value' or your password (you will initially see the encrypted version of your original password), then type in the desired, new password of your choice
- Lastly, don't ever forget your password again, silly! :D

Thanks to pete avila and michael for the tip!

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