Joomla! Features

Aug 8, 2008 | The CMS

Joomla! features: Completely database driven site engines News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageableTopics sections can be added to by contributing Authors Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes Browser upload...

What is the FTP layer for?

Aug 6, 2008 | General

The FTP Layer allows file operations (such as installing Extensions or updating the main configuration file) without having to make all the folders and files writable. This has been an issue on Linux and other Unix based platforms in respect of file permissions. This...

Only one edit window! How do I create “Read more…”?

Aug 6, 2008 | Current Users

This is now implemented by inserting a Read more… tag (the button is located below the editor area) a dotted line appears in the edited text showing the split location for the Read more…. A new Plugin takes care of the rest.It is worth mentioning that this...

Can Joomla! 1.5 operate with PHP Safe Mode On?

Aug 6, 2008 | General

Yes it can! This is a significant security improvement.The safe mode limits PHP to be able to perform actions only on files/folders who’s owner is the same as PHP is currently using (this is usually ‘apache’). As files normally are created either by...

What happened to the locale setting?

Aug 6, 2008 | Current Users

This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit the entries in the locale tag. Note that multiple locale...

Why does Joomla! 1.5 use UTF-8 encoding?

Aug 5, 2008 | General

Well… how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again?Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish?With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (character forms) of basically all languages can be...