Joomla 1.5: File Structure of the Template
Below is a cutout of a Joomla 1.5 Template structure. The chart below will give you a quick overview of what each file does. There are few set rules for…
Joomla 1.5: The Joomla Template Structure
In the following section I will be discussing Joomla templates more in depth.
I will discuss the different types of templates that Joomla supports.
In my opinion there are four types of Joomla templates.
1. Standard Template
2. Template Override
3. Conditional Template
4. Legacy Template
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Joomla 1.5: What is a Joomla Module?
So what is a module?
By the very name module you would think that it is a type of extension which it is and it isn’t.
I can’t think of one way just to describe a module because there so flexible.
Modules are tied into the Joomla template system at design time by adding a module tag to your template.
Joomla 1.5: What is a Joomla Component?
Joomla has both Front End & Back End components but the real question here is what is a component?
A component is an application within the Joomla framework some examples are the Joomla article system “com_content”, banners, menus, polls, links and contacts.
Some components are rendered in your Front End template as content for example articles. Others are used in the backend to manage things like user accounts.
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Magento: How to delete orders and reset counters?
After finishing the site and It’s ready to publish it. you will need to delete all test orders. How can we do it???
First: backup the database and the files.
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Magento: Add new container block
You can create a basic “container” as is done with the “right, left, and content” blocks by just adding something like
<block type="core/text_list" name="myblock" as="myblock"></block>
to page.xml. From there you can populate it with content blocks via the layout files as normal.
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Magento: How to add a new block?
If you want to reference a static block from inside of a CMS page or another static block use this syntax: [html] {{block type="cms/block" block_id="my-new-block"}} [/html] If you want to…
Name and Email auto hide/show
To make Name and Email auto hide/show like this: Details use this code: [html] Details [/html]
Bookmark your site
Step 1: Add the below code to the section of your page: [html] [/html] Step 2: Create either an image or text link that will be used as the Bookmark…
Moving Magento site To Another Server
MySQL Dump.
backup all files (make sure to archive on a .zip file).
Now you need to create a blank database and import the MySQL dump file to it.
Note: load the SQL dump into Editplus or something similar and search and replace the URLs before importing for example: “http://www.domain.com/test/” replace with “http://www.test.com/”.
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