Archive for the ‘Joomla’ Category
Power Tags for Joomla
PowerTags is a new Joomla! 2.5.x component that let you easily add Tags to articles, weblinks and events (managed by the Eventlist component). The component is professionally supported and actively developed, it is released under AGPL license and is available for download for a small fee which will be used to maintain and further develop the component and to provide quick and efficient assistance to the users.
Category: Joomla
How to fix Jupgrade Migrating undefined error when upgrading to Joomla 3
Recently I had an error message while migrating and old Joomla! 1.5 site to the new Joomla! 2.5, jupgrade failed with “Migrating undefined” error. After digging in the code I found a solution: You have to edit two files: jupgrade/installation/models/configuration.php jupgrade/installation/models/database.php and insert the following line near the top of the script: require_once JPATH_ROOT.’/jupgrade/libraries/cms/model/legacy.php’; When [...]
Category: Joomla
Presentazione su Joomla! FAP al Joomla! day 2012 di Torino
Sabato scorso ho partecipato al Joomla! day di Torino per presentare il progetto che porto avanti ormai da sei anni: Joomla! FAP, la versione accessibile di Joomla! adatta alle pubbliche amministrazioni italiane, conforme alla legge “Stanca”. È stato un piacere partecipare a questo evento e incontrare Alexred, Ste e tutti i partecipanti. Ho caricato la [...]
Category: Joomla , Accessibility
HtmlPurifier plugin for Joomla 2.5
I’ve recently discovered that the good old HtmlPurifier content plugin for Joomla wasn’t working with the latest Joomla 2.5.x due to some subtle changes in the Joomla autoloader stuff. I had to patch the plugin to store spl_autoload_functions before registering its own functions, the library method hit a PHP issue which prevents re-registering of spl [...]
Category: Joomla , PHP , Tech , Accessibility
Jupgrade: fixing migration errors
Last week I challenged my first migration from Joomla 1.5 to 1.7. Jupgrade is a wonderful tool, it worked pretty well but leaved the categories tree in an unuseable state and made a big mess in the article’s ACL. The symptoms of the two problems are: some categories (non only in articles but also in [...]
Joomla FAP accessible template ready for 1.7
Today I released the first public version of Jooma! FAP 1.7, the accessible suite for Joomla! which I’m developing since 2008. The suite was born to comply with the Italian regulation regarding web sites managed by public administrations, they must be not only accessible but also follow other technical requirements (like doctype XHTML 1.0 strict, [...]
Category: Joomla , Accessibility
Corso introduttivo Joomla! a pinerolo
Un corso su Joomla! nell’ambito delle iniziative per il Linux Day 2011, organizzato dall’associazione SLiP (Software Libero Pinerolo).
Category: Joomla
GeoContent Joomla component ready for 1.7, 2.5 and newer
GeoContent Plus is a Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x component that let you easily embed beautiful Google Maps or OpenLayers Maps into your Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x website (a beta for Joomla! 3.x is also available for testing).
GeoContent gives a geographical dimension to your Joomla! website.
Joomla 1.6 development: meaningful debugging
Hi there, just a quick note about how to stop the nightmare of Joomla 1.6 lack of debugging output. First, you should install Firebug for Joomla 1.6 plugin : now you can use fb() function to log variables directly in the Firefox firebug panel. Another nice trick I use is to put a vardie() function [...]
Joomla FAP news
Finalmente, dopo un lungo periodo di inattività, sono riuscito a tornare a lavorare su Joomla FAP, il progetto che porto avanti da diversi anni per consentire a chi lo desidera di usare una versione accessibile di Joomla conforme alla legislazione vigente in Italia. In questi utimi mesi ho lavorato su diversi progetti, alcuni dei quali [...]
Category: Joomla , Accessibility
