Translation Manager 1.5.1
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
Generate Light-weight Chinese PDF
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla! 1.5.x
Joomla! 1.0.x and 1.5.x have a built-in feature that allows Web site visitors to generate PDF files from articles they are viewing. The feature works quite well with western languages, yet fails to create satisfactory PDF files for Asian languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. For Joomla! 1.0.x there exists patches to make it perform well with Asian languages. For instance, Joomla! Taiwan released localized Traditional Chinese Joomla! 1.0.x, which includes a properly working PDF generating subsystem.
Because Joomla! 1.5.x uses UTF-8 encoding and allows specifing the font used in generating PDF for different languages, it basically supports a wide variety of languages in its PDF feature. With correctly installed font metrics, script and font itself, Joomla! 1.5.x indeed can correctly create PDF files in Asian languages. However, there are still problems when it comes to support Asian languages.
Joom!Fish 2.0 system requirements
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joom!Fish 2.x
I have been asked many times either on forums or via emails about the system requirements of Joom!Fish 2.x. Here is the information for a clean installation adapted from the official Joom!Fish 2.0 documentation.
- A properly installed Joomla! 1.5.x.
- PHP 5 is highly recommended. Joom!Fish 2.0 does not work on PHP versions of 4.3 and bellow. Later version of Joom!Fish 2.x will no longer support PHP 4.
- MySQL 5 with the MySQLi extension is highly recommended. Joom!Fish 2.x uses MySQLi features to increase efficiency.
- All of the folders required by Joomla! to be writable must be writable. You can check this at Joomla! backend.
- No Joom!Fish of any version has been installed.
- You must be at least administrator in Joomla!, although it is advisable to be a super administrator.
- Your server temporary directory must be writable.