Joomla Tutorials

Get Current Page URL in Joomla 2.5

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you are trying to get the current page url in your Joomla application or code files, then here is the code :
$pageURL = JURI::current();
echo $pageURL;

Change Virtuemart Credit Card Expiry Year

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

One of our customer contacted today asking to hack his credit card form expiry year of his virtuemart site, since the expiry year of his customers were not getting listed on the virtuemart payment gateway page. So, we looked at and found it. I modified /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_html.php, line 383, from: $end $end

Virtuemart Custom Attribute not saving and price not updating on cart

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

We recently upgraded one of our client's virtuemart store from 1.1.5 to 1.1.9 and since then the custom attributes stopped working. Means, the options dint get saved in the backend, when we tried to change and the price also dint get updated on the cart. On the backend it was throwing

Change default sort number of Virtuemart from 5

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Last week, we were doing an ecommerce website for a customer, where he wanted to show 9 products on a page with 3 on a row. Since virtuemart has got no feature to set this, it pulls this information from default Joomla, which is sadly also a constant, like 5,10,15 and

Admin Login giving 404 Error on Joomla 1.7

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you are getting 404 Page not Found Error on your Joomla Administrator login, then here is the fix. Just goto configuration.php file and edit it. Just remove the data from live_site variable and save the file. Now clear the cache folder and refresh the website and administrator login page.

Infinite loop detected in JError in Joomla 1.7

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you are getting this error, that means your configuration.php has not got the database details.

Just edit that file and enter the correct db details. Thats all.

YooTheme Menu not displaying on Google Chrome

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you are using YooThemes then you may have a big issue on Google Chrome, where the menu dissapears completely.

So, here is the fix for it.

Open templates/your-template/js/template.js

Find this line of code,

$('#menu').css("visibility", "hidden");

Just remove that line and you are done.

Remove Customer Note Box from Virtuemart Order Confirmation Page

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In Virtuemart, when you are placing an order, on the final page of order confirmation, you will see a textarea input box, which is meant for order note or customer note.

If you dont need that box or just dont want it to display, then here is what you have to

[FIX] Cant see the Modules in Module Manager

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Joomla 1.6 can be a bit confusing for new users, but its way too powerful.

For example, if you have just installed a module, but you dont see that module in the module manager.

You will get confused, correct ?

Well, Joomla 1.6 has a new option.

Goto EXTENSION MANAGER .

Click on DISCOVER Tab.

Then

Facebook Like on Virtuemart Product Page

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you would like to integrate Facebook Like on your Virtuemart's product pages, then here is the code,

<div class="js_pro_fb" style="margin-top:9px;">
<?php
function get_current_url1() {
$url (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
 : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
return $url;
}

 $url get_current_url1();
?>


		</div>

This code will like the specific product pages only, and not the whole site.