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Joomla in the Future

Dagu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:42:56 +0000

As we know, Joomla is one of the best CMS in the world. It often uses to make websites. You can make a great website fast. You don’t need to know PHP or HTML to use it. You only need to understand Joomla.

I started using Joomla from version 1.13. The Joomla is very great, although it still has many drawbacks. After that, Joomla changed the core. Joomla released version 1.5, a version that is not compatible with previous version. Yes, that’s right, it’s a brand new Joomla. Although it is not backward compatible, but some Joomla 1.13 extensions and templates can run in Joomla1 1.5 by condition you need to turn on system legacy plugin. For Joomla 1.13 lovers, don’t stay there, move to Joomla 1.5 because Joomla stops the development of version 1.3. They no longer support it.

For web programmer, understanding Joomla is not enough. We need to understand more to extend or build template for Joomla. Now, Joomla releases version 1.6alpha. In general, alpha version is not recommended for production. It’s only for developer or hobbyist. What’s new in Joomla 1.6alpha? Take a look at the list below:

ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast (it’s the main feature I expect for a long time ago)
Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
Tableless com_content layouts
Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
Article linker plugin for editors (Nice!)
New frontend template (atomic)
New backend template (bluestork)
New uploader for media manager

Other Joomla 1.6 improvements that existed in alpha 1:

Mootools 1.2
Refactored backend
JForm
Nested Categories and category parameters
New views in frontend: categories, category
Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality
PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5

What’s next?
After alpha 2, the Joomla community can expect a beta release. There are no intentions for a 3rd alpha release. Hmm.. the stable version is coming up! Can’t wait to try it!

Future improvements will be developed by Joomla Team:

Commenting solution is going to be added (At last.. :D)
Additional DB drivers
Lots of small performance/UI/code improvements

Great! Hope they will win Best Open Source PHP CMS.

Joomla Database Crash

Dagu — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:36:16 +0000

jtablesession::Store Failed
DB function failed with error number 145
Table ‘./joomla_database/jos_session’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` (`session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id`) VALUES (’1ecb458814b53d190db10cafee822dc0′,’1237429551′,”’0′,’1′,’0′);

Error message above usually happens to CMS Joomla. One of Joomla tables jos_session (the table name depends on prefix) is crash. Don’t worry if you experience this problem. It’s easy to overcome this problem. Just truncate the table jos_session. SQL command:

mysql> truncate jos_session;

It’s done!

Viewing Joomla 1.5 Module Position

Dagu — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:56:05 +0000

A Joomla page consists of a few modules and a component. These modules have certain positions. To know module position in a Joomla template, we only need to append a query string tp=1. For the example:

http://blog.danigunawan.com/joomla15/index.php?tp=1

Screenshot (Click on the image for full size image):

Joomla module positions

It’s ez, isn’t it?

Rename htaccess.txt to be .htaccess in Windows

Dagu — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:00:26 +0000

In default Joomla 1.5 installation, there is a file named htaccess.txt. This file will be used if we use Joomla SEO, that is option Use Apache mod_rewrite. Before it can be used, this file should be renamed to .htaccess. In Linux OS, this case is not a big problem, because it allows creation this kind of file (file name is started with “dot” character). For Windows user this case is a problem, because Windows doesn’t allow creation this kind of file. If we force it, then a warning is appear like shown below:

Error while renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess

In order to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess, we could do it through command prompt. Syntax:

ren [htaccess.txt directory]\htaccess.txt .htaccess

Example:

ren DaGu\htdocs\joomla15\htaccess.txt .htaccess

That’s it!

Joomla! Won "Best CMS Award" (Again)

Dagu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:46:00 +0000

On 31st October 2007, Packt Publishing announced Joomla as winner of “Best PHP Open Source Content Management System” for year 2007. This is second winning for Joomla. For this year, int the second position is Drupal, then e107 in the third position. Joomla first release is on September 2005. Since that release, Joomla is the most downloaded CMS.

A few factor that make Joomla win the competition is nice and simple front-end administrator. Besides, community responses to problems about Joomla is very fast. Joomla is in the big five for Overal Award, which will be announced on Friday, 2nd November 2007.

Congratulation Joomla!