Chris Roland » Joomla

Adding a module to an article in Joomla

Chris Roland — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:04:38 +0000

If you want to add a module directly into an article just follow the steps below:

Enable the Content – Load Module plugin
Go to the Extensions->Plugins Manager section and enable the ‘Content – Load Module’ plugin.
Enter a unique position name for your module
Go to the Extensions->Module Manager, select your module and enter a unique position in the Position field in the Details section. For example mod_mymodule.
Enter the loadposition tag into the article
Edit the article you want to put the module in and enter the {loadposition positionname} tag
For example {loadposition mod_mymodule}

That’s it!

Customizing the system message in Joomla

Chris Roland — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:14:16 +0000

In case others run into this and because it’s not in an intuitive spot, here is the file location to customize the system message in Joomla:
[joomla install]\libraries\joomla\document\html\renderer\message.php

Disable front-end editing on the Frontpage in Joomla

Chris Roland — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:55:27 +0000

To disable editing on the Frontpage in Joomla 1.5.11, all I had to do was change:

$access->canEdit = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'all'); $access->canEditOwn = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'own');
(Lines 64-65)

To:
$access->canEdit = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'none'); $access->canEditOwn = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'none');
(Lines 64-65)

In the following file:
[joomla install]\components\com_content\views\frontpage\view.html.php

Sanitizing input in Joomla

Chris Roland — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:12:48 +0000

Here is a quick tip. To sanitize input before you send the query to the database in Joomla, you can use:
$text = "My 'awesome' text"; $text = $database->Quote($text);

This will quote and escape special characters in the text string.

Reference:
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/525/125/

Paypal button with Joomla

Chris Roland — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:03:44 +0000

I wanted to post this to save someone some time.

I recently ran into an issue where I was trying to display a Paypal button on an article within Joomla. The button showed on the page, but when you clicked the button, it would send you to a Paypal page with an odd error. I was posting the Paypal button using the HTML form code they provide.

What I found out was, the email cloaking plugin was taking the email address in the form code and replacing it with Javascript. Once I disabled the email cloaking plugin, everything worked without any issues. You can disable/enable the email cloaking plugin by going to Extensions->Plugin Manager and clicking on the red circle/green checkmark in the Enabled column.