In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, author of Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook, we will cover:
It is very easy to identify a site built with Joomla!. Once you know that the site is built with Joomla!, you also know where is the administration area. Hackers may try to login to Joomla! administration area by typing its URL, such as http://www.yourdomain.com/administrator. Once the URL of administration area is known, the hackers only need to crack the administrative username and password. You may think about hardening security of your site adding some extra checks in this login system. In this recipe I am going to show you how you can add another security layer to Joomla! administration area. Continue reading “Protecting login into Joomla! administration area” »
Content items in Joomla! are displayed in content area, such as main component area. Usually you cannot show an article in a module’s position. For example, you want to show an article in Left module position. Joomla! core doesn’t allow you to do so. However, with an extension you can do it easily. In this recipe, I am going to show you how to display an article or a category in a module position. Continue reading “Showing Content items in Module positions” »
This morning I noticed that my book Joomla! E-commerce with VirtueMart now being listed in Top Titles module at publishers site. Among other books, it’s now remaining at the bottom. I hop it will come up very soon. It’s now in the top in Joomla! category. Thanks to my readers!
There is no doubt that Joomla! is one of the best content management system (CMS) in the world. It has a large set of extensions to meet almost any type of application need ranging from content management, photo gallery, multimedia streaming to e-commerce and social networking. It has great flexibility in changing designs and customizing the code. With Joomla, you can build any kind of website and dynamic web application. For example, this step-by-step tutorial by Suhreed Sarkar describes how to build custom form applications in Joomla! using CK Forms component without delving into any PHP code.
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After returning home from Office, I found that my copies of Joomla! with Flash has come to post office. The postman has left a slip and asked to receive the parcel from the post office. I went with my family, and received the parcel. Then moved to Coffeeworld. Those who have authored a book knows how one feels seeing his/her book published. The book looks fine. Flipping over the pages I could not find any mistake. This book is about 240 pages and looks thinner than my other books. Here are my photograph with the book.
I have updated my book , Red Hat/Fedora Linux, in Bangla, to the latest version of Fedora Linux. The book was basically written on Read Hat Linux 7.2. Then came Fedora and it was updated for Fedora Core 4. Since then it has not been updated. For around two years, the book is out of print and I was not getting time to revise it for new version of Fedora. Recently I have done it, and for one month I was trying to finish it by giving a final print of the revised edition. At last, I spent whole day yesterday and worked on it – and at the end of the day I printed the final revised copy.Oh, what a relief!
The book is now with my publisher, Gyankosh Prokashani, and hope to be in the marker mid december. The book will accompany Fedora 12 DVD and Fedora Live CD (GNOME). Waiting to see the book in it printed form.
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I have installed Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 and enjoying using it. Its ‘persona’ feature is really cool! With one click you can install and use it. When you visit persona section you get a lots of personas so far. Take you mouse over the persona image, and your browser’s look is changed! What a live preview. Other changes to Firefox are not that much visible. I am fan of Firefox and using it for more than 2 years. In fact, I have not installed and tried IE8, after using Firefox.
You can get the beta of Firefox 3.6 from here: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6b2/releasenotes/. Have a look at it.
There are various types of Content Management Systems (CMS) which are widely used for building and managing a website. Although Zen Cart is very good for running an online shop, it cannot be used for building a company website. Your organization may have a website running a CMS, and as you are going to open an online shop, you may need to integrate Zen Cart with that existing CMS. In my book Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development, I have added an chapter of integrating Zen Cart with several popular content management systems.
The publisher of my book, Packt Publishing Limited, has kindly made this chapter available to public. You may like to have a look at it and find your solution for building a shopping application which can be integrated with your existing CMS. Check the article at http://www.packtpub.com/article/integrating-zen-cart-with-content-management-systems.
Adding a map to your site may be a necessity in some cases. For example, you want to show the population of countries, or you want to show a world map to your students for teaching geography. Flash maps are always interesting as you can interact with them and can view them as you like. amMap provides tools for showing Flash maps. The amMap tool is ported as a Joomla! component by yOpensource, and the component is released with the name YOS amMap. This component has two versions—free and commercial. The commercial or pro version has some advanced features that are not available in the free version.
The YOS amMap component, together with its module, allows you to display a map of the world, a region, or a country. You can choose the map to be displayed, which areas or countries are to be highlighted, and the way in which the viewers can control the map. Generally, maps displayed through the YOS amMap component can be zoomed, centered, or scrolled to left, right, top, or bottom. You can also specify a color in which a region or a country should be displayed.
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