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CAPTCHA by own strength: Contact form 2007-07-06 10:31:08 Tags: joomla, captcha
As it is known, the contact form in Joomla! can be used easily for automatic delivery of a spam (that is, instead of a e-mails database, it is quite enough to have a database of the sites created using Joomla!). To be protected from this, we’ll add CAPTCHA on contact form. As well as in previous article (CAPTCHA by own strength
: Backend login form), we’ll use “kcaptcha” script, though it is possible to embed any other captcha-script in the same way.
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CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form 2007-07-04 12:07:52 Tags: joomla, captcha
Allow me to begin a series of articles devoted to embedding of CAPTCHA in Joomla. I know only one project, allowing such embedding, it is Security Images. But this component has some disadvantage, e.g. its size is 1.5Mb in zip-archive. I’ll tell how to embed such a protection by own strength
.
For the present I plan following articles:
CAPTCHA by own strength: Backend login form
CAPTCHA by own strength: Contact form
CAPTCHA by own strength: Registration form and Lost password form
CAPTCHA by own strength: Frontend login form
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“Popular of late” 1.1.1 2007-07-03 13:53:07 Tags: joomla, module, popular of late
Today Roman Beranek has offered small improvement of the module, allowing to show tooltips with a number of hits the article has. I have slightly completed his idea and I call your attention to version 1.1.1 of the “Popular of late”.
Waiting for Joomla! 1.0.13 2007-07-02 07:09:43 Tags: joomla
Recently at forum.joomla.org RobInk (Global Moderator of the forum) has written, that
as you could see in the 1.0.x SVN changelog, work is done for a new release which will be 1.0.13. I have to note here that 1.0.x is in maintenance mode, so only security issues will be fixed, so not all the bugs listed on the tracker will be fixed. There is no date set for the new 1.0.13 release, this still needs testing.
Well, 1.0.12 is pretty stable and there are some significant improvements made in 1.0.13.
Also the information about Joomla
! 1.0.13 has appeared on Joomla! performance testing where comparisons of various Joomla! Releases (Joomla! 1.0.13 RC, Joomla! 1.5 beta, and Joomla! 1.5 beta 2) on speed of page generation were spent. By the way, as results have shown, Joomla! 1.0.13 on PHP 5.2.2 with APC (Alternative PHP Cache) allows to reach the greatest speed.
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PDA-mambot version 2.0 beta 2007-06-21 23:17:09 Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template
I suggest testing version
2.0beta of a pda-mambot and pda-subdomain-mambot (for previous version see “PDA-version of Joomla’s site” and “The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain“).
Capabilities:
1. To appoint for the pda-version different “main” page (homepage).
2. Set up display of a template:
- There are 6 positions in template
- It is possible to change names of positions from mambot settings
- To output pathway or not (or to don’t output only on “main” page)
- To call mosMainbody on the “main” page or not (i.e. to output the “main” page completely or to keep modules only)
3. A capability to transform page to the utf-8 encoding (for it the library iconv is necessary).
4. Completely set up head-part of the page:
- Joomla’s standard or simplified head block
- A capability to embed styles in the page instead of using separate file
- Set up of xml-head and doctype-head
5. A choice of content-type headin
Everything is all right! 2007-06-21 00:00:01 There was a failure on a server therefore a site some days did not work. Now the site functions normally.
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How to limit length of the text 2007-06-16 11:12:10 Tags: joomla, css, trick
Working on a site often there is a problem to limit length of pathway or heading of article since very long text can corrupt design of page. Usually when the text turns out too long, that does not get into one line, and it is carry over to the next line. However, for some reason very few people knows, that it is possible to tune up CSS so that the long text was cut off till the certain length, and in the end was ellipsis. For this purpose it is enough to prescribe in style (an example for pathway):
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Draw up a plan 2007-06-15 08:57:07 Now I write version 2.0 of the pda-mambot-and-template. In the new version a plenty of options of the mambot which will make use of the mambot more convenient and adjusted is expected. If you have any offers in this connection write them in comments to this post.
Through some time the beta-version will be available to testing.
Optimization of queries to a database in Joomla!. Part 1 2007-06-14 13:37:00 Tags: joomla, optimization, database
Let’s install Joomla
! 1.0.12 on a server and set in Back End:
Administration / Site / Global Configuration / Site / Debug site: Yes
Then we save changes and leave from Back End. Now we come on a site. Result—36 queries to a database.
Now we switch on caching in Back End:
Administration / Site / Global Configuration / Cache / Caching: Yes
We come on a site and press “Update” in a browser, to check up, whether the number of queries has decreased. Result—33 queries to a database. Not much better.
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Problem with PDA-subdomain-mambot and cache 2007-06-12 12:59:29 Tags: joomla, mambot, pda, subdomain, cache
In some cases, using the mambot you can have problems with display of links on page (from the main domain there can be a link to a pda, and vice versa). It is connected with not absolutely correct work of joomla’s system of caching which does not know, that a site can be visited from different addresses.
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josMarkdown mambot 2007-06-12 08:26:23 Tags: joomla, mambot, typography, markdown
Mambot josMarkdown is based on PHP Markdown Extra. This is a special version of PHP Markdown with extra features. See PHP Markdown Extra for details.
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). “Markdown” is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the plain text markup to HTML. Full documentation of Markdown’s syntax is available on John’s Markdown page.
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josSmartyPants mambot 2007-06-11 04:37:51 Tags: joomla, mambot, typography, smartypants
One more mambot for you! The mambot josSmartyPants is based on PHP SmartyPants Typographer. Typographer is an extension to SmartyPants adding support for different quotation marks as well as for converting normal spaces to unbreakable spaces and thus preventing inappropriate line breaks. SmartyPants can perform the following transformations:
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The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain 2007-06-08 11:32:36 Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, subdomain
Today I suggest you other interesting solution for making of the PDA-version
of a site. Let’s make so that the pda-version was accessible to the address of pda.yourdomain.com.
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“Popular of Late” v1.1 2007-06-07 05:03:06 Tags: joomla, module, popular, popular of late
I have released version 1.1 of the “Popular of Late” module (if you have installed previous version, please, update it to 1.1). The module can be downloaded from Old articles in the “Popular” module post.
PS. This version is Mambo-compatible.
Old articles in the “Popular” module 2007-06-01 02:53:11 Tags: joomla, popular, mos_mostread
Often there is such problem with the “Popular” module (”Most Read Content”, mos_mostread). There some articles are located, and everyone click on them. As a result these articles do not leave from “popular”, and new articles don’t appear here. It is vicious circle.
One of solutions is to show popular news for the last NNN days.
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What is the problem? 2007-05-30 05:29:29 If you have some interesting (and non-trivial) problem (or idea) concerning Joomla, please, send me it by e-mail: me@physicist.phpnet.us or dryabov@yandex.ru.
PDA-version of Joomla’s site 2007-05-29 11:26:43 Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template
It is now fashionable to have the PDA-version
of the site so that users could visit a site through a pocket computer. And many people are asking: “Is it possible to realize this on Joomla
!?” Yes, it is.
What is necessary for this purpose?
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Joomla! com_search glitch 2007-05-28 09:31:00 Tags: joomla, com_search
Let’s come on a site joomla.org and click on the Search menu item. Now we enter text “test test” for search (with three spaces between words!). As a result of the search the huge document with a lot of “<span
To get rid of this glitch
, it is necessary (more…)
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Joomla! 1.5 RC2 2007-09-01 13:58:18 Today is 2nd birthday of Joomla
!
In honour of this event Joomla! 1.5 RC2 [codename: Endeleo] has been released.
Some improvements and areas of changes are listed below:
Router refactoring solving a range of bugs
Media Manager refactoring, moving this to MVC standards
Updated scripts (version); mootools, tinyMCE, Xstandard
Core template improvements
Template language installer support
… and of course a lot more
Note: due to the Router refactoring there will be known issues with SEF url’s.
Important, you need to upgrade! In the current RC1 we found three security issues, one SQL injection, one XSS, and a few full path disclosure vulnerabilities. Those security issues are solved in the new release.
Where we go from here: as you might have read on a recent blog, we will have at least one more Release Candidate (RC3) and hope to move to a Stable release from there on.
Mobile Joomla 2007-09-21 15:37:39 Now I’m planning to work on creation of the package “MobileJoomla
!”. The package includes:
PDA-mambot 2.2 and PDA-template 2.2 (special edition);
PDA mambot guide (the full illustrated information on PDA-mambot installation and tuning);
“PayPal Mobile Checkout” module;
“Google AdSense Mobile” module;
List of mobile ads services (and how to embed them in joomla-powered site).
The package will cost about $2.00. If you are interested in it, write me in comments or by e-mail.
What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site? 2007-09-19 11:40:02 This week the site alledia.com had a competition of answers to a question “What’s the easiest way to tell Google
what’s new on your Joomla
! site?“. As a prize the ebook “Joomla SEO book” (the price $37) acted.
Funnily, but I became the winner of this competition. It is funnily, because I have responded, that a way which allows making it quickly, now is not realized in Joomla (even as extension).
My answer was such: (more…)
Weblog ping component 2007-09-16 17:20:13 Ping 1.0.0 is a component for pinging xml-rpc updating services (such as rpc.weblogs.com or rpc.technorati.com). To ping just select “Component - Ping - Ping” at the backend. You can edit list of rpc servers which to ping. (more…)
Testing pda version of a site without pda 2007-09-05 03:56:43 In this post I’ll describe some ways, which will allow testing the pda version
of a site on usual computer.
Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices.
Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer extension. It allows to display page how it will be displayed on a handheld computer. Also for Firefox there is User Agent Switcher plugin. (more…)
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PDA mambot 2.1.2 2007-09-04 16:16:52 Version 2.1.2 of a mambot is released:
Working with the utf-8 codepage is fixed.
The option to change gzip compression for a pda is added.
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PDA mambot 2.1 2007-09-03 11:52:47 Changes in the new version:
Now there is no division into “pda-bot” and “pda-subdomain-bot”. All is set up within the framework of one plugin.
It is possible to remove optionally pictures (img) and others tags (iframe, object, applet, embed. script) which can seem to you “superfluous” in the version for a pda.
It is possible to set a name of a subdomain (not necessarily pda.*).
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Current state of Mobile Joomla! 2007-09-29 13:30:21 Now I on a regular basis receive letters with the request to give more detailed information on the project “MobileJoomla
!”.
I was going to release this project on this weekend, but, unfortunately, the release should be postponed.
Now following parts of the project are ready:
“PDA-mambot 2.2″ mambot+template - 70% (in particular, library WURFL is added, that is the commercial version can determine absolutely precisely the device from which the user has come on a site)
PDA-mambot Guide - 70%
“PDA-mambot for J!1.5″ (beta) - 50%
“Google AdSense Mobile” module - 100%
“PayPal Mobile Checkout” component+module - 50%
“Mobile ads services” - 30%
Payments will be made via WebMoney system (in Russia PayPal system yet so is developed, as in other countries). The package will be sent customers by e-mail.
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Go on leave 2007-10-07 09:41:55 Today I leave for scientific conference, therefore a site “goes on leave” till October, 17th.
All comments will be added at once and without premoderation. But to avoid a spam, all comments containing links will not be published.
Google AutoPing 1.0beta 2007-10-07 02:14:32 As I already wrote earlier, in Joomla! there are no tools for automatic pinging xml-rpc servers (e.g., blogsearch.google.com). I promised, that I’ll write a component which will correct this situation. Such component is not written yet, but I can offer you the beta-version of component “Google
AutoPing” which sends “ping” to blogsearch.google.com at displaying of new pages or any changes in contents of pages (exactly at changes in mosMainBody, i.e. changes in contents of modules or templates replacement are not considered). (more…)
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