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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:18
A lot of different languages are available for the Back-end, but by default this language may not be installed. If you want a translated Back-end, get your language pack and install it using the Extension Installer. After this, go to the Extensions Menu, ...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:14
Yes! Prior to Joomla! 1.5, only the text values of an Article and only for ISO-8859-1 encoding was allowed in the PDF rendition. With the new PDF library in place, the complete Article including images is rendered and applied to the PDF. The PDF generator...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 22:14
Most Articles will be assigned to a Section and Category. In many cases, you might not know where you want it to appear so put the Article in the Uncategorized Section/Category. The Articles marked as Uncategorized are handled as static content....
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 16:19
To completely remove an Article, select the Articles that you want to delete and move them to the Trash. Next, open the Article Trash in the Content Menu and select the Articles you want to delete. After deleting an Article, it is no longer available as i...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 16:17
Mambots have been renamed as Plugins. Mambots were introduced in Mambo and offered possibilities to add plug-in logic to your site mainly for the purpose of manipulating content. In Joomla! 1.5, Plugins will now have much broader capabilities than Mambots...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 16:12
Well you are reading it right now! This depends on what you want to achieve. If you are new to Joomla! and have no clue how it all fits together, just install the sample data. If you don't like the English sample data because you - for instance - speak Ch...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 12:19
When you Archive an Article, the content is put into a state which removes it from your site as published content. The Article is still available from within the Control Panel and can be retrieved for editing or republishing purposes. Trashed Articles are...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 10:11
The collation option determines the way ordering in the database is done. In languages that use special characters, for instance the German umlaut, the database collation determines the sorting order. If you don't know which collation you need, select the...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 08:10
Installing of Joomla! 1.5 is pretty easy. We assume you have set-up your Web site, and it is accessible with your browser.Download Joomla! 1.5, unzip it and upload/copy the files into the directory you Web site points to, fire up your browser and enter yo...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 07:42
Joomla! runs on the PHP pre-processor. PHP comes in many flavours, for a lot of operating systems. Beside PHP you will need a Web server. Joomla! is optimized for the Apache Web server, but it can run on different Web servers like Microsoft IIS it just re...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 06:16
The improved Installer can be found under the Extensions Menu. With versions prior to Joomla! 1.5 you needed to select a specific Extension type when you wanted to install it and use the Installer associated with it, with Joomla! 1.5 you just select the E...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 06:15
You indeed can change the Menu Item's Type to whatever you want, even after they have been created. If, for instance, you want to change the Blog Section of a Menu link, go to the Control Panel->Menus Menu->[menuname]->Menu Item Manager and edit ...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 06:13
In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5 there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. The processes have been combined now and whilst both content types are still around they are renamed as Articles for Content Items ...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Thursday, 07 August 2008 16:30
No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the installer take care of all the settings and there i...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Thursday, 07 August 2008 04:27
The FTP Layer allows file operations (such as installing Extensions or updating the main configuration file) without having to make all the folders and files writable. This has been an issue on Linux and other Unix based platforms in respect of file permi...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Thursday, 07 August 2008 02:28
Yes it can! This is a significant security improvement.The safe mode limits PHP to be able to perform actions only on files/folders who's owner is the same as PHP is currently using (this is usually 'apache'). As files normally are created either by the J...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 23:47
This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit the entries in the locale tag. Note that multip...
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Author: JoomlaEZ admin.
Created: Tuesday, 05 August 2008 08:11
Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again?Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish?With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (character forms) of basically all language...
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