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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Turning the legacy mode on or off


When Joomla! 1.5.x was released, the former and original Joomla! 1.0.x came to be known as Legacy. 1.5. It can run and support 1.0.x extensions and templates. There are cases such as migrations, custom-built extensions, and others that may cause the need for this. If possible, do not turn on the Legacy mode. Try to search for either the updated 1.5 version or an equivalent version. I suspect there are many sites still running 1.0.x and at some point they will migrate to Joomla! 1.5.x. and as such, learning about legacy mode will be important for moving to 1.5.

In order for Joomla 1.5.x to support and run older components, modules, and mambots from the 1.0 family, there's a special layer called Legacy mode.

This quick recipe will show you how to activate and deactivate Legacy mode.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to the Administrator Console.

  2. Click Extensions | Plugin Manager.

  3. Once in Plugin Manager, locate the plugin called System Legacy.

  4. To enable Legacy mode, click the red X (assume it's off).

  5. To disable Legacy mode, click the green check.

How it works...

Legacy mode is a Plugin that emulates Joomla! 1.0. The difference between 1.0 and 1.5 extensions is great, and with this, developers and users can continue to use their 1.0 extensions. While using this you might experience some degraded performance and the site may be more vulnerable to attack, based on the extensions you are using.