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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

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

jomCalendar


While we are awash in calendars in both the Joomla! world and in normal life, this extension will help keep you on track. This recipe discusses jomCalendar from COREPHP.COM. It is a commercial extension and was chosen for inclusion due to its great feature-set and support options.

JomCalender allows you to have multiple calendars to track anything you wish. Examples include birthdays, sporting events, work calendar, religious holidays, or more.

Getting ready

To use the calendar, you will need to purchase it. You will need your administrator login for installation.

How to do it...

  1. Login as Admin and install using Extension Manager | Install/Uninstall.

  2. Once installation is done you will see a warning about the themes for the calendar. This won't affect our recipe.

  3. Click Install The Sample Data button.

    You'll receive a warning. As this is the first run through, we are not concerned about this. You should, however, keep this in mind upon upgrading as you will lose data.

  4. Click OK to install...