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Upgrade PHP to 5.2.x on CentOS
- Written by: Kochin
- Category: General
As mentioned in a previous article, the coming Joomla! 1.6 will require PHP 5.2.x or above in order to work or even install. Recently I am planning to test drive Joomla! 1.6 Alpha, so the first thing on my to-do list is to upgrade the PHP 5.1.6 currently running on my testing server to PHP 5.2.x. Unfortunately the OS I am using, CentOS 5.3, doesn't yet officially provide the needed upgrade. That forced me to look for the upgrade from other sources.
One quick search revealed a few third parties repositories that may contain PHP 5.2.x. In the end I chose to retrieve the package from a semi-official CentOS repository, CentOS-Testing, which is the repository hosted by CentOS team to test out new or improved packages before putting them into one of their official channels. Those packages are not officially supported, and are not garanteed to function properly. Please use them with care.
Fully Chinese Joomla! Installation
- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla! 1.5.x
Joomla! 1.5.x has native support for localization. However, no matter what language you choose during installation, you will get a default installation of Joomla! Web site in English. In order to get front end and back end interfaces displayed in your language, you will have to install language packs.
What if you can have a completely Chinese experience with Joomla! right from the installation to the sample Web site contents? Will it help you to envision a Web site built with Joomla! in Chinese? Since we have already the fully translated sample data for the defatul Joomla! installation as well as translation files provided by Joomla! Taiwan, we decided to answer those questions with a small patch to make Joomla! completely (well, almost) Chinese. (Download location is provided at the end of this article.)
Translation Manager 1.5.1
- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla! 1.5.x
When building a multilingual Web site with Joomla! 1.5.x, one often requires to translate language files used by Joomla! core, components, modules, plugins and templates into various languages. While it's not difficult to open the original language file and the translation language file side-by-side and do the translation, it's a rather tedious work to compare those files to figure out the changes. Also, when you have a whole set of language files to be translated, how can you be sure all of the translations have been completed without checking each file?
Luckily there is an administrator backend compenent called Translation Manager can help with all those problems. In this article we will present a brief introduction to this handy component.
Language selection bug in Joom!Fish 2.0.1
- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joom!Fish 2.x
We updated our Joomla! 1.5 Lab site to Joom!Fish 2.0.1 immediately once it became avalibale. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, we were experiencing problems switching languages.
The mod_jflanguageselection seems to build URLs incorrectly for languages not currently used when SEF is turned on. As a temporary fix, try editing modules/mod_jflanguageselection/helper.php and changing the following lines in function getJFMenu()
Modify Page Footer for Your Joomla! 1.5.x Site
- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla! 1.5.x
After you installed the lastest release of Joomla! 1.5.x, one thing you might think about customizing is the copyright message that displayed at the bottom of your newly created Web site. While it's nice to give credit to the good people of Joomla! Project, you probably want to show there a copyright message for the contents you produce.
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