Interesting about Joomla! CMS

If you have some interesting (and non-trivial) problem (or idea) concerning Joomla, please, send me it by e-mail: dryabov@yandex.ru or dryabov@yandex.ru.

Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template

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It is now fashionable to have the PDA-version of the site so that users could visit a site through a pocket computer. And many people are asking: “Is it possible to realize this on Joomla!?” Yes, it is.

What is necessary for this purpose?

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Tags: joomla, com_search

Let’s come on a site joomla.org and click on the Search menu item. Now we enter text “test   test” for search (with three spaces between words!). As a result of the search the huge document with a lot of “<span class=”highlight”></span>” is received.

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Tags: joomla, mambot, external links

I have outlined a mambot which adds the text “target=_blank” to the external links in a content. Thus, all the links pointing to external sites will be opened in a new window.

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Tags: joomla, seo

By default, Joomla! inserts into a page absolute (”http://site.com/page”), instead of relative (”/page”) links. It has an advantage—for example if someone will copy the text of your pages all links still will point to your site. But authors of some sites wish, that on their site all links were relative since it can noticeably reduce the size of page.

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Tags: joomla, seo, com_frontpage

The question why Homepage is accessible to addresses http://site.com/ and http://site.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 arises on a regular basis. More precisely, there is a question “How to get rid of it?”

I know at least two solutions of this problem.

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Hello!

So, I’m really the physicist. Now I’m working on the PhD thesis (in the field of nonlinear dynamics) at the Southern Federal University (Russia).

I have an “off-hour work”: I’m the head of the “Student’s Academy of Sciences” at the University. And as a CMS for a site of this organization I have chosen the Joomla!.

For long enough time I managed to understand Joomla! indifferently well. In this blog I’ll describe some most interesting problems concerning Joomla!, answers on which I have taken.

PS. Sorry if I still cannot speak English well.