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Joomla! 1.6 - Lifting the Lid ...
- Written by Kochin
- Category: Articles / Joomla! 1.6.x
User Rating: 5 / 5
At recent Joomla! User Group (JUG) Brisbane on July 7th, Joomla! Core Team member Andrew Eddie lifted the lid off Joomla! 1.6 and allowed Joomla! community to have a peek into this upcoming new version of Joomla! The presentation was broadcast as a live stream on the Web. If you missed the meeting and live broadcast, you can view the video or read the PDF file of Andrew's presentation notes. Here we summarize some important points that might interest you.
Translation Manager 1.5.1
- Written by Kochin
- Category: Articles / Joomla! 1.5.x
User Rating: 4 / 5
When building a multilingual Web site with Joomla! 1.5.x, one often requires to translate language files used by Joomla! core, components, modules, plugins and templates into various languages. While it's not difficult to open the original language file and the translation language file side-by-side and do the translation, it's a rather tedious work to compare those files to figure out the changes. Also, when you have a whole set of language files to be translated, how can you be sure all of the translations have been completed without checking each file?
Luckily there is an administrator backend compenent called Translation Manager can help with all those problems. In this article we will present a brief introduction to this handy component.
Language selection bug in Joom!Fish 2.0.1
- Written by Kochin
- Category: Articles / Joom!Fish 2.x
User Rating: 5 / 5
We updated our Joomla! 1.5 Lab site to Joom!Fish 2.0.1 immediately once it became avalibale. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, we were experiencing problems switching languages.
The mod_jflanguageselection seems to build URLs incorrectly for languages not currently used when SEF is turned on. As a temporary fix, try editing modules/mod_jflanguageselection/helper.php and changing the following lines in function getJFMenu()
Modify Page Footer for Your Joomla! 1.5.x Site
- Written by Kochin
- Category: Articles / Joomla! 1.5.x
User Rating: 4 / 5
After you installed the lastest release of Joomla! 1.5.x, one thing you might think about customizing is the copyright message that displayed at the bottom of your newly created Web site. While it's nice to give credit to the good people of Joomla! Project, you probably want to show there a copyright message for the contents you produce.
Generate Light-weight Chinese PDF
- Written by Kochin
- Category: Articles / Joomla! 1.5.x
User Rating: 4 / 5
Joomla! 1.0.x and 1.5.x have a built-in feature that allows Web site visitors to generate PDF files from articles they are viewing. The feature works quite well with western languages, yet fails to create satisfactory PDF files for Asian languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. For Joomla! 1.0.x there exists patches to make it perform well with Asian languages. For instance, Joomla! Taiwan released localized Traditional Chinese Joomla! 1.0.x, which includes a properly working PDF generating subsystem.
Because Joomla! 1.5.x uses UTF-8 encoding and allows specifing the font used in generating PDF for different languages, it basically supports a wide variety of languages in its PDF feature. With correctly installed font metrics, script and font itself, Joomla! 1.5.x indeed can correctly create PDF files in Asian languages. However, there are still problems when it comes to support Asian languages.