Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release Can Cause issues if you use PHP4

27 Sep By Leave a Comment

This weekend, I decided to upgrade to the latest Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release and ran into an issue. After checking the site I was faced with the following error when I went to the home page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /../htdocs/includes/application.php on line 246

After a quick search in Google, I came up with the fix. It seems like the 1.5.7 version of Joomla doesn’t like PHP4 so an easy workaround is in order. If you haven’t already renamed your htaccess.txt to .htaccess do it now and add

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

The fix was found HERE in the Joomla forums.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: , ,

Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release Now Available

11 Sep By Leave a Comment

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.7 [Wovusani]. This is a security release and contains a number of bug fixes, improvements as well as security fixes. It is strongly recommended that users immediately upgrade. It has been nearly four weeks since Joomla 1.5.6 was released on August 12, 2008. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Popularity: 9% [?]

Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: ,

How to assign css to a specific menu item in Joomla 1.5

25 Aug By Leave a Comment

If your building sites for clients you need to stress the dynamic nature of Joomla from the onset of the project. Be sure they understand that the look, for the most part will carry through the entire site with very few exceptions.

Recently, I had the opportunity to do a full site conversion. They would like the exact look of the site to be transferred over to Joomla. This includes images for menu items, and specific images on each content item. Clearly this was not the intent of Joomla, but they had their reasons.

[Read more...]

Popularity: 29% [?]

Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: , , , ,

Fantastic Joomla 1.5 Shoutbox!

13 Aug By Leave a Comment

I personally have been using a shoutbox on my club website for quite some time now.

This site is 1.x Joomla site that has been up for little over a year. I have done many changes \ updates throughout that year. This little, simple shoutbox has been performing flawless for that entire time. It is simple to use and has low overhead.

So I have been doing a little research on upgrading that site to Joomla 1.5 and ran across this POST at Compassdesigns.  This made the shoutbox part of the upgrade easy as they have a 1.5 version in beta! PERFECT!

Check out below to see the list of features.
[Read more...]

Popularity: 48% [?]

Filed Under: Joomla

Joomla! 1.5.6 Released to address a high level security issue

13 Aug By Leave a Comment

Joomla Security

The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.6 [Vusani]. This is a quick turnaround security release to address a high level security issue and it is recommended all users upgrade immediately.

For more information about this exploit, click here to visit the Joomla Security Blog.

[Read more...]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Filed Under: Joomla
« Older Posts
Newer Posts »