From garyamort at gmail.com Thu Jul 1 09:38:35 2010 From: garyamort at gmail.com (Gary Mort) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:38:35 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Code tip: Clearing errors from display Message-ID: I am putting together a SSO set of plugins for IIS using Windows user accounts. As such, I am trusting that any user who connects is a valid user and allowing them to logon. I have a system plugin which fires first, it checks to make sure we have a REMOTE_USER set, parses out the username from the domain[using either slash since Windows except either and lowercase the username]. Then it checks to see if that user is already logged on, if so no reason to keep going. If not, and the override is set, it will check to see if the user exists, if the user doesn't exist it creates the user, and then logs them on[and of course there is an IIS logon module which returns success for REMOTE_USER's that exist in the user database]. All good. The only issue I ran into was that the user lookup function keeps throwing a warning that no user was found[basically, anytime you use the Joomla API to look for a user, it generates a user error message when no user is found. This makes sense when a user is logging on, it is USELESS when you are looking for a user for other reasons] Despite auto logging the user on, there still is displayed an error message that no user was found. To work around this, I used the following code: ---- // save the current warning handler $warnHandlers = JERROR::getErrorHandling( E_WARNING ); // ignore warnings because we expect some users to not exist JERROR::setErrorHandling(E_WARNING, 'ignore'); // lookup user by name` $finduser =& JFactory::getUser($username); // reset the warning handler(s) foreach($warnHandlers as $mode) { JERROR::setErrorHandling(E_WARNING, $mode); } // if this user does not exist, create it if (!($finduser)) { // first we need to clear the error $userError = JError::getError( true ); jimport('joomla.user.user'); $newuser =& JUser::getInstance(0); -------- This resets the warning handler to ignore, runs the lookup code, then resets it to whatever mode(s) where set before. Finally, if the user did not exist, I know there is an error at the top of the error queue about that, so I call getError with true set to pop the error and remove it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nyphp at zooluserver.com Thu Jul 1 17:26:05 2010 From: nyphp at zooluserver.com (Paul Bouzakis) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:26:05 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Which CCK? Message-ID: <4C2D07ED.50505@zooluserver.com> Hey Everyone, Wondering where everyone stands with Joomla and CCK extensions. Currently I see the top being K2, FLEXIcontent, Zoo, and JSeblod. So far JSeblod seems to the best, with the most functionality, clean admin interface, and the ability to create custom templates per new content type. Also the ability to package content type/fields together for reusability. I guess the question I have is that, you need a good community behind one of these. Which one allows the most flexibility but doesn't put you in a bubble. Paul From scott at wolpow.com Thu Jul 1 21:48:09 2010 From: scott at wolpow.com (Scott Wolpow) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:48:09 -0400 Subject: [joomla] News ticker redirect Message-ID: <4C2D4559.2030305@wolpow.com> I am using a news ticker on a site. It is based on a certain category. When you click on the link, I want to take them to a specific nav, that contains the article If you go to the home page jfkenterprise.zoeticdev.com and click on the news ticker under the showcase, I want it to go here [Use Firefox] http://jfkenterprise.zoeticdev.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113%3Ajfk-receives-achievment-award&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=67 I know I can use another type of slider to simulate the effect, but the client will add new articles with time. So that makes it difficult to use. Currently it will load into its own page. Thanks . -- *Scott Wolpow* *718.275.7765* From chris at theendrecords.com Wed Jul 7 14:53:20 2010 From: chris at theendrecords.com (Chris TheEnd) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:53:20 -0500 Subject: [joomla] Insideschools.org Move to Joomla. Message-ID: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> Hi, So I was hired on months back as a freelancer to manage this New York school system site. I wanted to reach out and get some recommendations if Joomla would be up to the task of managing this site. This current development of the site is a hybrid of using simple machines forum for forum and the user database, and than a wordpress blog. All of this is wrapped together running a custom CMS, and this crazy index12.php file. I am tasked with making a development proposals, so i would be looking for componet developers and a graphic designer hoping to get someone from the list as everyone involved so far is New York based. I am wonder anyone else know of site running joomla that gets around 7 million page views a year? i am hoping this to increase after the upgrade to over 10 million. I am worried about performance. maybe joomla.org? Other questions. The Main focus of the site are the school profiles Example: http://insideschools.org/index12.php?fs=1262&all=y This I could only imagine being a custom built component, this would need to include an advanced search function example: http://insideschools.org/?f=adv, Search Module, and a recent comments module. (Each school has comments.) what do you think the estimated Development Costs for a component like this would be. ----- Anyone from the list have Joomla Template Design experience want to send me a few work examples and the layouts and some cost estimates? ----- I have already talked directly to a few people on this list offering work on this project and it actually comes into a go status I will still contact you directly about it. I am just trying to get a total estimated cost for the over hual and a feature list of "why" to justify that cost. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From li_gordon at yahoo.com Wed Jul 7 19:29:24 2010 From: li_gordon at yahoo.com (Laura Gordon) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] Joomla NYC User Group next meeting Tomorrow! Message-ID: <152544.35446.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: 7/8/2010 Networking: 5:30-6:15, Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30, Networking 8:30 - 9:30 Chairperson: Scott Wolpow, www.PreBilt.com Items: * Elin Waring, President, OSM: Joomla 1.6 ACL * Fred Sullivan, OpenVentures sh404sef * Show and tell...if there is extra time... Place: 70 Lincoln Center Plaza (The Rose Building), 9th Floor, Executive Conference Room, New York, NY 10023 (when you exit the elevators turn to the left, there will be signs) See you there! -- Laura www.RytechSites.com Create Dynamic Websites for your Company with Joomla! CMS Create Captivating Websites for your Business with HTML/FLASH ....the choice is yours! Member of the NYC Joomla User Group...www.JoomlaNYC.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mitch.pirtle at gmail.com Wed Jul 7 21:21:45 2010 From: mitch.pirtle at gmail.com (Mitch Pirtle) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:21:45 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Insideschools.org Move to Joomla. In-Reply-To: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> References: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Chris TheEnd wrote: > I am wonder anyone else know of site ?running joomla that gets ?around 7 > million page views a year? I have personally been involved with two different websites that will beat that in a day. Scale cannot be an excuse for Joomla anymore :-) -- Mitch From james.nt at ameexusa.com Wed Jul 7 23:47:19 2010 From: james.nt at ameexusa.com (James) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:17:19 +0530 Subject: [joomla] Insideschools.org Move to Joomla. In-Reply-To: References: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> Message-ID: <000001cb1e50$44596f80$cd0c4e80$@nt@ameexusa.com> I agree with Mitch, I have Joomla realty website that has millions of records and high click rates per day. Scalability is not a problem with Joomla, but with such high click rates please take of all the security exploits and file permissions. I have a good hand on experience of Joomla component and module development. I am in India and I attended the CMS expo at Chicago this year too. If you are willing to outsource any development work (website, custom component, module, plugin, extension specific plugin and others) you are most welcome. We have good competitive rates and support Thanks James -----Original Message----- From: joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Mitch Pirtle Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 6:52 AM To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla Subject: Re: [joomla] Insideschools.org Move to Joomla. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Chris TheEnd wrote: > I am wonder anyone else know of site running joomla that gets around 7 > million page views a year? I have personally been involved with two different websites that will beat that in a day. Scale cannot be an excuse for Joomla anymore :-) -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php From garyamort at gmail.com Thu Jul 8 09:04:44 2010 From: garyamort at gmail.com (Gary Mort) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:04:44 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Insideschools.org Move to Joomla. In-Reply-To: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> References: <1AFE123B-87D4-4A71-B83A-8E59B1438DB3@theendrecords.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Chris TheEnd wrote: > Hi, > > > So I was hired on months back as a freelancer to manage this New York > school system site. I wanted to reach out and get some recommendations if > Joomla would be up to the task of managing this site. > > Yes and no. Here is the issue, a lot of the functionality on that site is actually straight component stuff. For example, any of the CCK's, moset trees, sobi2, k2, etc could be used for that directory you mentioned, and there are comments and search modules for them already. While I have worked with sobi2 and k2.....I would actually NOT recommend them at the moment as both are designed very much with certain 'mindsets' that just would make life more difficult for that function. As such, I'd recommend Mosset's trees as I know it is used successfully on the Joomla extensions directory[which has comments, favorites, etc built in]...as such I'd suggest reaching out to Donna Vincent, http://www.iteachme.com/, as she has done a lot of work with Mossets and you want someone who can hit the ground running. Also, knowing that the extensions directory get quite a bit of traffic, you know that you should be able to handle the traffic issues with Mosset's. > This current development of the site is a hybrid of using simple machines > forum for forum and the user database, and than a wordpress blog. All of > this is wrapped together running a custom CMS, and this crazy index12.php > file. > So you can keep using Wordpress for the blog, as it can integrate to Joomla. Continue to use SMF for the forums. Add in Jfusion to link all the systems together and your good to go with just replacing the CMS part and making it the hub. Yeah, I should not be recommending Wordpress for the blog, it feels "cleaner" to make the blog in Joomla, but end user experience after end user experience says Wordpress is easy to use and intuitive for users. And if they already know how to use it, why bother forcing them to learn a new system? In my book, minimize user learning, don't complicate it. > > > I am tasked with making a development proposals, so i would be looking for > componet developers and a graphic designer hoping to get someone from the > list as everyone involved so far is New York based. > > As I said, talk to Donna I think her experience is right up your alley. She's worked on high traffic sites with Mitch Pirtle and is very familiar with Mosset trees which implements the directory functionality you want. And hey, if you have some custom coding bits and pieces, I should have free time next month...once the kids start camp and my current projects get closed out. :-) > I am wonder anyone else know of site running joomla that gets around 7 > million page views a year? i am hoping this to increase after the upgrade to > over 10 million. I am worried about performance. maybe joomla.org? > > > Joomla.org is a good example of what Joomla is capable of in this traffic range. Note, Joomla.org doe > > I am just trying to get a total estimated cost for the over hual and a > feature list of "why" to justify that cost. > Chris > > > The why is a good question. Personally, if their site is working now why should they upgrade? Perhaps a better question would be what are their needs short and long term, that their current system doesn't provide that they could get initially with low cost from Joomla? For example, the favorites list, rating and rankings, reviews, etc. All of this has already been done with Joomla and mosset trees, so they get it for "free". Plus allowing user tagging of schools would be good. For example, I know there are a number of special schools in NY dedicated to promoting specific topics. Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Science for example emphasis the sciences[no debates over which school is best, it's obviously Bronx Science.] There are other schools that emphasis arts/theater, or take strong stances against bullying, etc. Being able to tag school specialties would be good. How is their tracking currently and what future needs do they have? There are a lot of Google and other analytic functions with components for Joomla. Social website integration would be high on my list, and with Joomla and wordpress you can do that. Don't require people to have a unique userid/password but let them reuse their facebook one. Use a module like Plaxo Auto Invite to integrate OpenInviter and let users invite their friends to the website. Republish content to a Facebook fan page, twitter, etc. What are their goals for the site and what sorts of expansions are they considering? For example, when I was in the city, I'd love if that website also included a section for private schools and philosophies. As a personal example, my family homeschools and follows the unschooling method[no debates please].... as my wife's back has gotten worse, it just wasn't feasible to continue... As such, I would have loved a central website that consolidates private schools in the city and also had them tagged so I would know, for example, that the Booklyn Free School meets my educational preference[and also would have a place for reviews as I have heard from many that there are 'issues' but without a lot of detail]. Obviously a mailling list would be good too[but then, I always plug setting up mailling lists.... they are an easy way to entice return visitors] Also a centralized calendar for those schools to post open houses and informational meetings to[and heck, if we're going for wishes, if they expanded here it would be great for InsideSchools to organize an 'open house' meeting for schools city wide to send reps to and describe their schools to parents!] All this could be done with, say, mosset trees, their claim your listing function to let schools claim their own listing and add rss/ical feeds to it, and some tags for public/private schools. Do they like the idea of private schools, but not on the main site? Well then, various multisite Joomla solutions could be used to use the same database but restrict public school info to www.insideschools.org and private school info to private.insideschools.org [though I would recommend including the various charter schools, like Bronx Science, in both categories]. And for my own "now" purposes, it would be great to have a "greater metro" section...perhaps even broken down by county/region for data as well. For example, a duchess.insideschools.org, ulster.insideschools.org, westchester.insideschools.org for regions of the state that contain a high number of both weekend city residents and commuters. As many weekend city residents don't know of the educational options in the area weekend at....and if they had options they liked in the region they might consider changing to commuters[my own kids school, Hudson Valley Sudbury School, has had a number of weekend residents join as their main reason not to commute was school for the kids...knowing there is an economical[4500/year for the first child, 75% of that for the second, and 50% for third+ children] option THAT THEY LIKE makes all the difference for them. Note, the multi site options in Joomla are on the weak side and require a good bit of custom coding. Wheras something like Drupal has quite a bit of it almost "built in"[hey Forest, if your eyes have not glazed over yet, can you take a look and let us know how much of this would be easy to do with Drupal?]..... with Drupal though I find that implementing ANY function almost always requires a coder to make some tweaks....maybe not an advanced coder but a coder. 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URL: From douglas at focalizar.com.br Mon Jul 12 09:38:08 2010 From: douglas at focalizar.com.br (Douglas Machado -Focalizar.com.br) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:38:08 -0300 Subject: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint In-Reply-To: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Donna, As an extension developer I wish all Joomla developers used only MooTools, the default javascript library for Joomla, in order to improve performance (because we'd be loading only one js library) and especially for compatibility issues; If you do use JQuery, *please* also use this feature: http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries I urge all developers to use the Joomla framework. Regards, Douglas Machado http://ideal.fok.com.br - Custom Software Development "... For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The only God - Jeremiah 29:11 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Donna Marie Vincent < donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours > http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mitch.pirtle at gmail.com Mon Jul 12 11:08:34 2010 From: mitch.pirtle at gmail.com (Mitch Pirtle) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:08:34 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint In-Reply-To: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Donna Marie Vincent wrote: > > Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours > http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 Thanks for the link Donna! As it seems everyone but joomla is now using jquery nowadays, it's always helpful to understand what jquery can do, not only to "keep up with the joneses" but to learn from others, as well as satisfy the client that has already invested significantly into jquery. -- Mitch, downloading yet another book, wheeeeee From donnamarievincent at yahoo.com Mon Jul 12 12:40:36 2010 From: donnamarievincent at yahoo.com (Donna Marie Vincent) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint In-Reply-To: References: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <260813.31484.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I would like to use only MooTools, but because 1.5 is still using an outdated, backwards incompatible version of MooTools, that is very limiting and not always possible, especially when the client explicitly requests JQuery, or requests something that cannot be done with the old version of MooTools. ________________________________ From: Douglas Machado -Focalizar.com.br To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 9:38:08 AM Subject: Re: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint Dear Donna, As an extension developer I wish all Joomla developers used only MooTools, the default javascript library for Joomla, in order to improve performance (because we'd be loading only one js library) and especially for compatibility issues; If you do use JQuery, please also use this feature: http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries I urge all developers to use the Joomla framework. Regards, Douglas Machado http://ideal.fok.com.br - Custom Software Development "... For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The only God - Jeremiah 29:11 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Donna Marie Vincent wrote: >> Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours >http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > >NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >http://www.nyphpcon.com > >Show Your Participation in New York PHP >http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at focalizar.com.br Mon Jul 12 12:54:31 2010 From: douglas at focalizar.com.br (Douglas Machado -Focalizar.com.br) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:54:31 -0300 Subject: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint In-Reply-To: <260813.31484.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <260813.31484.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Donna, If it is a mid or big size project you can develop for Joomla 1.6, which has the latest MooTools version. I believe the RC will probably be ready in less than 60 days. Kind regards, Douglas Machado http://ideal.fok.com.br - Custom Software Development "... For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The only God - Jeremiah 29:11 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Donna Marie Vincent < donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote: > I would like to use only MooTools, but because 1.5 is still using an > outdated, backwards incompatible version of MooTools, that is very limiting > and not always possible, especially when the client explicitly requests > JQuery, or requests something that cannot be done with the old version of > MooTools. > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Douglas Machado -Focalizar.com.br > *To:* NYPHP SIG: Joomla > *Sent:* Mon, July 12, 2010 9:38:08 AM > *Subject:* Re: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint > > Dear Donna, > > As an extension developer I wish all Joomla developers used only MooTools, > the default javascript library for Joomla, in order to improve performance > (because we'd be loading only one js library) and especially for > compatibility issues; > > If you do use JQuery, *please* also use this feature: > http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries > > I urge all developers to use the Joomla framework. > > Regards, > > Douglas Machado > http://ideal.fok.com.br - Custom Software Development > > "... For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to > prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The > only God - Jeremiah 29:11 > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Donna Marie Vincent < > donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours >> http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >> > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The only God - Jeremiah 29:11 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Donna Marie Vincent > wrote: I would like to use only MooTools, but because 1.5 is still using an outdated, backwards incompatible version of MooTools, that is very limiting and not always possible, especially when the client explicitly requests JQuery, or requests something that cannot be done with the old version of MooTools. ________________________________ From: Douglas Machado -Focalizar.com.br > To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla > Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 9:38:08 AM Subject: Re: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint Dear Donna, As an extension developer I wish all Joomla developers used only MooTools, the default javascript library for Joomla, in order to improve performance (because we'd be loading only one js library) and especially for compatibility issues; If you do use JQuery, please also use this feature: http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries I urge all developers to use the Joomla framework. Regards, Douglas Machado http://ideal.fok.com.br - Custom Software Development "... For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..." The only God - Jeremiah 29:11 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Donna Marie Vincent > wrote: Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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Sitepoint In-Reply-To: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <688149.24096.qm@web35601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <973842.79108.qm@web112019.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> i am too late on this one.? should've done it earlier.? did you look it over?? was it worthwhile? (can you give me a copy!) ________________________________ From: Donna Marie Vincent To: Joomla Users Group List Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 9:08:56 AM Subject: [joomla] Free jquery book. One day only. Sitepoint > Free JQuery PDF book from Sitepoint, link available for 24 hours >http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/boards/view/viewthread?thread=9404368 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm chairing the next meeting -- do you want to demo it at the August >meeting? :-) > > > > > >________________________________ >From: Gary Mort >To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla >Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 9:04:19 AM >Subject: [joomla] MetaTemplate > >A while back I recall someone mentioning wanting to assign templates by user >role, a feature I recently discovered in Drupal using the Sections add on module >but that Joomla apparently lacked. > > >Well, I was wrong. >http://www.metamodpro.com/ > >MetaTemplate adds the same sort of functionality for Joomla and much much more. > >Assign templates to specific content items. > >Assign templates with start/end dates. > >Assign template by geoip location. > >Etc. > >I have not(yet) reviewed the component but all in all, it looks like the perfect >solution to a rather sticky problem. > >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > >NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >http://www.nyphpcon.com > >Show Your Participation in New York PHP >http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php From donnamarievincent at yahoo.com Tue Jul 13 10:49:55 2010 From: donnamarievincent at yahoo.com (Donna Marie Vincent) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] MetaTemplate In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <226657.40492.qm@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> No, Mitch did the metamod module. ________________________________ From: Scott Wolpow To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 10:47:12 AM Subject: Re: [joomla] MetaTemplate Didn't Mitch review this? Donna Marie Vincent wrote: >Cool! I'm chairing the next meeting -- do you want to demo it at the August >meeting? :-) > > > > > >________________________________ >From: Gary Mort >To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla >Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 9:04:19 AM >Subject: [joomla] MetaTemplate > >A while back I recall someone mentioning wanting to assign templates by user >role, a feature I recently discovered in Drupal using the Sections add on module > >but that Joomla apparently lacked. > > >Well, I was wrong. >http://www.metamodpro.com/ > >MetaTemplate adds the same sort of functionality for Joomla and much much more. > >Assign templates to specific content items. > >Assign templates with start/end dates. > >Assign template by geoip location. > >Etc. > >I have not(yet) reviewed the component but all in all, it looks like the perfect > >solution to a rather sticky problem. > >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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I'm chairing the next meeting -- do you want to demo it at the August >>meeting? :-) >> >> >> >> >> >>________________________________ >>From: Gary Mort >>To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla >>Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 9:04:19 AM >>Subject: [joomla] MetaTemplate >> >>A while back I recall someone mentioning wanting to assign templates by user >>role, a feature I recently discovered in Drupal using the Sections add on module >> >>but that Joomla apparently lacked. >> >> >>Well, I was wrong. >>http://www.metamodpro.com/ >> >>MetaTemplate adds the same sort of functionality for Joomla and much much more. >> >>Assign templates to specific content items. >> >>Assign templates with start/end dates. >> >>Assign template by geoip location. >> >>Etc. >> >>I have not(yet) reviewed the component but all in all, it looks like the perfect >> >>solution to a rather sticky problem. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >>http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >>NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >>Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > >NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >http://www.nyphpcon.com > >Show Your Participation in New York PHP >http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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Nice catch Donna, didn't see that one. -- Mitch From li_gordon at yahoo.com Sun Jul 18 09:43:41 2010 From: li_gordon at yahoo.com (Laura Gordon) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] help for a joomla site - to move it and reload it Message-ID: <578064.62236.qm@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have someone that needs her site moved to another host, if you have the time available to do this, please email her at: asiaa at sprint.blackberry.net I am not sure what other work she needs at this time... thanks, Laura -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SW On 7/18/2010 10:11 AM, Donna Marie Vincent wrote: > There is a security fix available for 1.5.19, which was released 3 > days ago: > > http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5284-joomla-1520-released.html > > Sometimes it's better to be a procrastinator! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php -- *Scott Wolpow* *718.275.7765* From scott at wolpow.com Mon Jul 19 10:59:22 2010 From: scott at wolpow.com (Scott Wolpow) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:59:22 -0400 Subject: [joomla] com_search Question Message-ID: <4C44684A.9030809@wolpow.com> Using Joomla built in search, is there an easy method to make the SERP be its own page instead of loading into current page? I can change the default_form.php and change the path for action, but was looking for any other choice. -- *Scott Wolpow* *718.275.7765* From donnamarievincent at yahoo.com Mon Jul 19 13:45:04 2010 From: donnamarievincent at yahoo.com (Donna Marie Vincent) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] com_search Question In-Reply-To: <4C44684A.9030809@wolpow.com> References: <4C44684A.9030809@wolpow.com> Message-ID: <948208.12707.qm@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> If you are talking about having its own Itemid on the SERP so you can control the modules, that can be controlled with metamod. if (option = com_search) then disp ________________________________ From: Scott Wolpow To: NYPHP at lists.nyphp.org; SIG at lists.nyphp.org Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 10:59:22 AM Subject: [joomla] com_search Question Using Joomla built in search, is there an easy method to make the SERP be its own page instead of loading into current page? I can change the default_form.php and change the path for action, but was looking for any other choice. -- *Scott Wolpow* *718.275.7765* _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott at wolpow.com Mon Jul 19 14:02:24 2010 From: scott at wolpow.com (Scott Wolpow) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:02:24 -0400 Subject: [joomla] com_search Question In-Reply-To: <948208.12707.qm@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <4C44684A.9030809@wolpow.com> <948208.12707.qm@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4C449330.8020601@wolpow.com> That is overkill. What I did was modify com_search/controller.php Lines 72 and 74 and hard coded what I needed. The module should support choosing what page you want search to show up in. Scott Wolpow On 7/19/2010 1:45 PM, Donna Marie Vincent wrote: > If you are talking about having its own Itemid on the SERP so you can > control the modules, that can be controlled with metamod. if (option > = com_search) then disp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Scott Wolpow > *To:* NYPHP at lists.nyphp.org; SIG at lists.nyphp.org > *Sent:* Mon, July 19, 2010 10:59:22 AM > *Subject:* [joomla] com_search Question > > Using Joomla built in search, is there an easy method to make the SERP > be its own page instead of loading into current page? > > I can change the default_form.php and change the path for action, but > was looking for any other choice. > > > -- *Scott Wolpow* > *718.275.7765* > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php -- *Scott Wolpow* *718.275.7765* From li_gordon at yahoo.com Sun Jul 25 11:19:29 2010 From: li_gordon at yahoo.com (Laura Gordon) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [joomla] preview sites in different browsers Message-ID: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi all, Peter from Microsoft shared this link with me, a must for all Joomla! programmers, as we always have clients in different browsers, this way we can see what they are seeing: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en There is a professional version that includes firefox, etc...but at least this shows you ie 6,7,8 in 2 different screens. It is standalone and you can compare side by side. Thanks Peter! -- Laura www.RytechSites.com Create Dynamic Websites for your Company with Joomla! CMS Create Captivating Websites for your Business with HTML/FLASH ....the choice is yours! Member of the NYC Joomla User Group...www.JoomlaNYC.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve at sbritton.com Sun Jul 25 21:03:32 2010 From: steve at sbritton.com (Stephen Britton) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:03:32 -0400 Subject: [joomla] preview sites in different browsers In-Reply-To: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Excellent product! Thanks for the tip Laura and thank you Peter. I had been running an old copy of Windows XP Home with VMware on my Windows 7 workstation strictly for testing IE6. Now I can remove both programs :-) On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Laura Gordon wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter from Microsoft shared this link with me, a must for all Joomla! > programmers, as we always have clients in different browsers, this way we > can see what they are seeing: > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en > > There is a professional version that includes firefox, etc...but at least > this shows you ie 6,7,8 in 2 different screens.? It is standalone and you > can compare side by side. > > Thanks Peter! > > -- Laura > > > > > www.RytechSites.com > Create Dynamic Websites for your Company with Joomla! CMS > Create Captivating Websites for your Business with HTML/FLASH > ....the choice is yours! > Member of the NYC Joomla User Group...www.JoomlaNYC.org > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- Stephen Britton Technology Consultant sbritton at gmail.com ph: 914-661-0040 From mitch.pirtle at gmail.com Sun Jul 25 21:16:18 2010 From: mitch.pirtle at gmail.com (Mitch Pirtle) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:16:18 -0400 Subject: [joomla] preview sites in different browsers In-Reply-To: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Laura Gordon wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter from Microsoft shared this link with me, a must for all Joomla! > programmers, as we always have clients in different browsers, this way we > can see what they are seeing: > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en > > There is a professional version that includes firefox, etc...but at least > this shows you ie 6,7,8 in 2 different screens.? It is standalone and you > can compare side by side. > > Thanks Peter! This was actually demonstrated at the NYCJUG - perhaps you should start attending? :^P -- Mitch From rakics at neobee.net Mon Jul 26 11:58:35 2010 From: rakics at neobee.net (Sasa Rakic) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:58:35 +0200 Subject: [joomla] preview sites in different browsers In-Reply-To: References: <39171.41089.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000501cb2cdb$679f6370$36de2a50$@neobee.net> It is half illegal solution but here is full solution: http://rapidlibrary.com/ Enter with no ": "expression studio ultimate" and submit It supports IE 6, IE 7, IE 8 -> 7, IE 8,Firefox, Open Image, Open PSD after install. -----Original Message----- From: joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Britton Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:04 AM To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla Subject: Re: [joomla] preview sites in different browsers Excellent product! Thanks for the tip Laura and thank you Peter. I had been running an old copy of Windows XP Home with VMware on my Windows 7 workstation strictly for testing IE6. Now I can remove both programs :-) On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Laura Gordon < li_gordon at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter from Microsoft shared this link with me, a must for all Joomla! > programmers, as we always have clients in different browsers, this way > we can see what they are seeing: > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d > -45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en > > There is a professional version that includes firefox, etc...but at > least this shows you ie 6,7,8 in 2 different screens. It is > standalone and you can compare side by side. > > Thanks Peter! > > -- Laura > > > > > www.RytechSites.com > Create Dynamic Websites for your Company with Joomla! 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Another question is rounded corners. I LOOOOVE rounded corners, but I hate the javascript/images that one uses to do them. As such, my own inclination is towards using the webkit/mozilla rounded corners CSS styling and just let the chips fall to square corners in non-compliant browsers. And here is one for Mitch, gradients. I really hate using image background gradients, but now that CSS3 will allow one to specify gradients, I'm inclined to use them because they just LOOK so much nicer.....but again only for browsers supporting the CSS commands, let other browsers have the older ones. Then there is transparent backgrounds...where you place a transparent background on your main content area so it floats above your background... they simply look cool to me....but my wife tells me she has a lot of trouble reading text on transparent backgrounds so I'm thinking out they go personally. 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Name: ATT00001..txt URL: From garyamort at gmail.com Fri Jul 30 11:21:59 2010 From: garyamort at gmail.com (Gary Mort) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:59 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective Message-ID: I thought since I've been working with Joomla a bit, I'd post some comparisons from a usability/coding standpoint: 1) Joomla has components. Components are mini applications which do things. Drupal has modules. Modules are mini applications which do things. 2) Joomla has modules. Modules are little blocks of content that are displayed on the screen, dynamically or statically generated content. Drupal has blocks. Blocks are....little blocks of content that are displayed on the screen, dynamically or statically generated content. 3) Joomla has plugins, plugins respond to "events" in the system. Components, modules, and plugins can invoke other plugins, so they can add their own "events" to the default set of events. Drupal has "hooks" Hooks are functions that are invoked based on the end of the function name. Modules, blocks, and hooks can invoke other hooks[PHP when executed has a global array of all functions...in drupal, a "hook" would have a specific ending name, such as mycoolcomponent_generate_tracking_hook..... when the "master" generate_tracking_hook is run, it will search the array of all functions for other functions that end in generate_tracking_hook and it will call them] 4) Joomla has templates used to designate display style. Drupal has themes used to designate display style. Joomla has a single template system....one template is active and used for display. Drupal uses a multiple theme system, every theme gets a ranking/score and when a display view is being called, Drupal will work through all the themes to determine which one has a view that matches and displays it. Sort of like template overrides, but with more depth[and themes can be designated as "subthemes" so that they use other themes automatically.] 5) Joomla has adopted an object oriented style of coding..... Drupal follows a function/array oriented style of code*2. In Joomla you might have: $user $user->type $user->name $user = JApplication::getUser($id) In Drupal you would have $user[] $user['type'] $user['name'] $user = application_get_user($id) 6) Joomla does not "eat their own dogfood"...they rely on many external third party apps for development[JoomlaForge, phpBB, etc] Drupal does eat their own dogfood. All their projects are managed using a Drupal module called Projects, which includes Version Control hooks, issue tracking, component packaging, API documentation generation, etc 7) Installation/configuration Joomla has an installer system that most components utilize to install/configure components by uploading an archive file and letting Joomla automatically install it. Drupal requires manually upload and unzip into specific directories....plus often configuration by editing config files. 8) Upgrade/maintenance Joomla does not automatic maintenance Drupal will autmatically check modules, including the core files, against the latest published ones and even offer you alternatives[ie published version is X and is installed, beta version X.1 has been released].. You can automatically extract and install updates to code. 9) Scheduled tasks Joomla does not do scheduling Drupal includes a cron task out of the box 10) Input forms Joomla has built in functions for generating fields for input*2 Drupal has a rich set of functions to generate complete forms, along with the ability to override field definitions[for example, it is SIMPLE to extend Drupal to support HTML5 field definitions by overriding the current html field generation] Looking over it all, Joomla has a "cleaner" style of coding to me and is overall better. What it does not have is the maturity of drupal. Many many Joomla components re-invent their own "plugin" system because they do not know that they can merely extend the Joomla plugin system to do the same thing. Joomla's API documentation is produced manually occasionally....Drupal's is produced automatically every night from the current codebase. Joomla's developer docs are scattered in 3 or 4 different places, plus finding docs for different versions is a pain. Drupal not only maintains documentation automatically, you can easily browse documentation by version[4, 5, 6, 7] and when viewing documentation you will see what versions of Drupal that doc applies to. Drupal is a much richer, mature environment. Where it fails is that to make minor modifcations[add some blocks to the screen] really require a web implementor to do. Wheras in Joomla, clients can easily add and configure new modules to the screen[on the website I setup for fundraising for my brothers memorial.....his niece who is not a computer person was able to download, install, configure and publish a fundraising tracking thermometer with the only help from me being "here is a link to one you can use".... on Drupal? Not a chance...] I prefer empowering the users[ok, honestly I prefer not getting called to implement crap like the thermometer], so I prefer Joomla. But I see a lot in Drupal that Joomla should be learning from. *1: Drupal 7 is migrating to object orientation in many ways *2: Joomla 1.6 adds a rich Form API...which ironically seems to be struggling from the fact that rather than reviewing how Drupal does things and avoiding pitfalls already encountered and worked around in Drupal someone decided to roll it himself and is making many mistakes that Drupal already dealt with -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fred at avdrive.com Fri Jul 30 12:17:04 2010 From: fred at avdrive.com (Fred Sullivan) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400 Subject: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort) Amazing post, Thank You! I went to one day of the Drupal Camp NYC 2010 to learn and observe. In the days before the camp installed local version and created a test site. It had been a while since I had done that with Drupal. >From an integrators perspective it is mature and elegant in it's coding, documentation and user community a much higher percentage of the attendees where actual coders/developers than at a equivalent Joomla event. But compared to Joomla as far as getting up a basic site to do many things it was much more time consuming and involved and takes a much higher technical proficiency. It is reflected in the book shelf at say Barnes and Noble almost all Drupal books are for developers, almost all Joomla books are end designer and users manuals. Joomla's object oriented approach is much more advanced and abstract and has been much more and it has been set up to be more designer and user friendly thus there are more users less community. Drupal much more on basic level programmer friendly for a beginning to average programmer. Joomla as percentage has in number fewer coders and developers that participate in the community but the ones that do are very advanced. The Joomla community needs to work much harder at Joomla developer training of beginning and mid level programmers to flourish. Drupal needs to work much harder at getting a friendlier interface for designers and users probably by including more in their core to grow their end user community. Fred Sullivan @fredjet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From masimko at verizon.net Fri Jul 30 14:05:23 2010 From: masimko at verizon.net (Mark Simko) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:23 -0400 Subject: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1280513123.6594.21.camel@jersey> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:59 -0400 > From: Gary Mort > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" > Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > From mitch.pirtle at gmail.com Fri Jul 30 14:06:36 2010 From: mitch.pirtle at gmail.com (Mitch Pirtle) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:36 -0400 Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To be fair, the whole "not invented here" syndrome is prevalent in the web development world overall, and plagues a great many more projects than just Joomla. I still think that completely sucks though. :-) -- Mitch From garyamort at gmail.com Fri Jul 30 14:25:46 2010 From: garyamort at gmail.com (Gary Mort) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:46 -0400 Subject: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: <1280513123.6594.21.camel@jersey> References: <1280513123.6594.21.camel@jersey> Message-ID: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko wrote: > > Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? > > I really want to clean it up a bit before posting it far and wide. :-) But I've been sitting on my thoughts for about a week and a half now after doing a bunch of custom coding to get Ubercart to work the way I wanted it to. One thing I found nice was that it was a HECK of a lot easier than Virtuemart to customize...and a LOT more nicely integrated than Magento[in fact, we are currently using Magento and it completely sucks] So I figured I'd let em out in case others had their own input on Drupal vs Joomla.... terminology is a real b......i....t......c.......you know what. Since both Drupal and Joomla have "modules" but they do completely different things. Plugins in Joomla are self-documenting to an extent, while hooks in drupal you need to lookup. The Joomla extensions directory, for all my complaints, really shines while Drupal's you have to know what your looking for more clearly. All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I still prefer Joomla. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: