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Joomla 1.5 phpbb bridge bug fixed

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:59:58 +0000

*This happens when you verify the account through mail.
In /plugins/user/phpbb3.php, replace line 92:

from
if(!isset($userid)) {

to
if (( ! isset( $userid )) || ( strlen( $userid ) == 0 )) { // it's set, but has no value

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Module Title not showing up Joomla 1.5(fixed)

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:18:53 +0000

I encountered this problem, when I am upgrading a template from 1.0 to 1.5... I thought this was only a minor problem, until 3 hours past and I still couldn't fix it... I checked everything on the admin, settings, parameters, and even global configuration. Until I rechecked the module param at the template and I try putting style... first a blank one... it doesn't work, then I try putting style="xhtml" and now the title of module shows

Virtue Mart Bug

admin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:41:44 +0000

When Adding Category, Product or Just change configuration, the administration page automatically Logs me out, I tried to Google for the solution which is easy to find... and visited the results which are forum of virtuemart but it takes me 3 forums before I finally got to the solution page.

Virtue Mart Session fix

Changes to be made:

administrator/index2.php
BEFORE
########
103 doGzip();
104
105 // if task action is 'save' or 'apply' redo session check
106 if ( $task == 'save' || $task == 'apply' ) {
107 $mainframe->initSessionAdmin( $option, '' );
108 }
#########

AFTER
########
102 // if task action is 'save' or 'apply' redo session check
103 if ( $task == 'save' || $task == 'apply' ) {
104 $mainframe->initSessionAdmin( $option, '' );
105 }
106 doGzip();
########

Joomla SEF and IIS URL rewrite

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:38:15 +0000

Using ISAPI 3.0 over IIS 6.0 for rewriting URL to Search Engine Friendly URL, I experienced this problem that links return 404 error when clicking any links on joomla. After googling for 3 hours, I found the right solution, which requires to hack the code.

.htaacess code
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

This is because Joomla expects original URL in the REQUEST_URI server variable, but in IIS this variable is not available and cannot be emulated.
With ISAPI_Rewrite we store original request in HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL. You can then assign value of this variable in PHP code to the REQUEST_URI variable

at /components/com_sef/sef.php
// IIS patch.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) {
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
}

I append this code over sef.php by the way I'm using the component sh404SEF which I guess is the best for joomla I have tried OpenSEF (this component I guess is not continue for development) and ArtioSEF.