Joomla.com offers a free hosted website solution

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New York, NY, – January 20, 2015 – Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS), announced today the launch of its new service: Joomla.com. Users can now create and build freely hosted Joomla websites. The project is run in partnership with SiteGround web hosting company, who has built the server infrastructure that will accommodate […]

A short introduction on the new Joomla! Extensions Directory

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In 2013 the JED Team started brainstorming on the upgrade for the extensions directory. Now the brand new JED is launched, and it’s looking good. Let’s have an overview and end up with a walkthrough video on the new JED. From the front end view there are a lot of changes. A new and improved search functionality, […]

The best way to display PHP error messages

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Report all PHP errors ini_set(‘display_errors’,1); ini_set(‘display_startup_errors’,1); error_reporting(-1); Report all PHP errors except E_NOTICE & E_STRICT ini_set(‘display_errors’,1); error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT);

Announcing 2 NEW Joomla! Plugins

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Our team is happy to announce the release of two new plugins for Joomla! CMS. Failed Login Attempts – Joomla! Authentication  Plugin This authentication joomla! plugin records failed login attempts in backend and frontend of your Joomla! web site. View More Details   Cookies Policy Notification Bar – Joomla! System Plugin This joomla! plugin provides a […]

[SOLVED]: Notice: Use of undefined constant DS – assumed ‘DS’ in

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The DS constant has been removed in Joomla 3. If you really need it you can use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR instead or insert the below code in your php file. <?php /* BEGIN: Define DS */ JLoader::import( “joomla.version” ); $version = new JVersion(); if (!version_compare( $version->RELEASE, “2.5”, “<=")): if (!defined("DS")): define("DS", DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); endif; endif; /* END: Define […]

Joomla Community Magazine, September 2014

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The September issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:

Web357 has been redesigned!

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Web357 is pleased to announce the release of our new website. Our website has been redesigned with a fresh new look for the homepage and has been updated with information about our company. This website is the result of months of synchronized hard work done by our team in analyzing and designing the concept.

Language switcher in the same page (do not redirect in the homepage after switch)

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Problem: I have two languages installed. When I am in a page, for example in contact page, and then I press second language flag, it redirects me on the home page. Solution: You can do that with "Menu Item Association": Extensions > Plug-in Manager > "System – Language Filter" > Menu associations: Yes. Then in […]

A fix for Feedgator v3.0a1 – Message:: Feed [object Object] (ID=1): Error –

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Hello Feedgator fans, The Problem: You will get the below error message after installing the newest version of feedgator v3.0a1 that is compatible with Joomla! 3.x and you go to import the news for the first feed. Feed [object Object] (ID=1): Error – Fatal error: Class ‘JFolder’ not found in /administrator/components/com_feedgator/models/feed.php on line 140 0 […]

How do I allow HTML in a module’s configuration parameter’s textarea/editor field type?

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Add a filter=”raw” or filter=”safehtml” attribute in the XML field tag of the parameter. Example: filter (optional) allow the system to save certain html tags or raw data. <field name=”myhtmlvalue” type=”text” default=”” label=”Some text” description=”Some desc” filter=”raw” />