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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

Extensions


This recipe, will not be covering any API or coding development of extensions, but rather will discuss the management of them. In 1.6, a lot of work has gone into improving their interaction.

In this set of recipes, you'll see some tips and tricks - this section will be a quick - catch all about extensions.

Let's start with a new look at all the new features in the Module Manager.

How to do it...

Installation of a module, extension, or plugin hasn't changed all that much. There are a lot of changes in the management of modules. Let's manage a module to see the changes.

Setting publishing start and stop time of module:

  1. Login to the Joomla! Administrator Console.

  2. Select Extensions | Module Manager.

  3. Select the Module you wish to manage.

  4. Find Publish Start and Publish Stop.

  5. Fill in the dates and times.

    Here you see like the articles in Joomla! 1.5, the ability for a module to turn on and turn off at specified times.

  6. Optionally, leave a note in the module.

  7. Find the Note field, fill it out, click...