To create a new Paypal Recurring Payment Method in VirtueMart, login to Joomla’s backend, go to Components -> VirtueMart.
Locate the “Store” menu and click the “List Payment Methods” submenu. Click the “New” button in the top right toolbar to create a new payment method.
A few days ago, we wanted to have one of our custom made components included in Joomla Extensions Directory.
Toni Marie, chief of Joomla Extensions Directory said:
One of the requirements is that we are able to successfully download and install the product according to the intent of the listing. In this case, we cannot download because PayPal demands a payment higher than zero. It is at that point that the transaction breaks down.
So we had to find a solution to fix this. After some investigation, we found it:
The main keywords associated to Joomla! CMS (Content Management System), are the following: “It’s easy!”. So feel free to browse through the next installation steps, to find out just how easy it is…
If you have a SSL certificate and want to secure your /administrator/ directory, to be sure that it can be accessed only by HTTPS create a new file and paste:
While getting a more proficient understanding of how PHP works, you will find out that one of the nifty things it can accomplish is talking to a MySQL database server, another is using sessions. Sessions are useful when we want to keep track of users as they browse through a site. As an example for using sessions, we can make sure that only those users who have a valid username and password can gain access to a specific part of a site (something like a membership card), or as another example, in the case of any online store, sessions can help you keep track of what is in the shopping cart at any given time.
1.1 Side boxes and links
To manage te appearance and existance of the side boxes go to tools meniu->layout boxes controler. To manage the banner of publicity to zencart go to tools->banners
To manage the links from the header or footer of the site go to tools->EZ-Pages
You can edit diferent pages with html code to increase their aspect and personalize them.To do that go to tool->define pages editor
After you login to your backend console, you can easily notice the CPanel in the left part. Here are the steps to add a new shortcut (quickicon):
Joomla comes with the ability to define hierarchical menus but your template might not be enabled by default. This article explains the steps you need to make a top-down menu.
1) Download the latest version of the ja_transmenu from JoomlArt.
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JoomlaPack is really easy to use for backup and restore of any Joomla! CMS content and framework. But what happens when the reinstall and restore from the scratch does not work without any problems?
The article focuses on a AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) fresh install and configuration — usually a different version of current production stack, and a Joomla! backup restore — created with JoomlaPack. The situation is most frequent in moving the production server to a new service provider (and hoping for almost the same version of the AMP stack) or copying the Joomla framework to a new development machine (where the use of old/deprecated software version is not recommended).
Description:
Clicking toolbar buttons in the backend other than ‘save‘ or ‘apply‘ results in being logged out when using Joomla!
Reported on:
1.0.13
Affected functions:
initSessionAdmin()
Related files:
includes/joomla.php
Login to your administrator console (the backend of your Joomla site).
In the top menu, look for the Components menu and click the JoomlaPack submenu.
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What is JoomlaPack ?
JoomlaPack is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. It creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer derived from the standard Joomla! installer. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. Indicative use include :
- Backing up your site to safeguard it against disaster.
- Develop a site locally and upload on the live server.
- Moving your site on a new host.
- Taking a snapshot of a live site in order to test applying updates and making changes on your local test server, then upload the result back on the live server.
- Create template sites, with pre-installed components, that you can reuse.
- Create snapshots of your sites before making radical changes.
- So many more, limited by your creativeness alone!
If you are in the construction business, manufacturing, web site design or lending business, you are doing custom contract work. usually your work involves several steps or tasks, with certain, sometimes legally required deliverables or reports.
Although direct client relationship is golden, it is very useful and elegant to provide your customers with secure, on-line access to the project progress. It might be the case that you will avoid the embarrassing busy tone or the answering machine.
You will also allow your customer to submit requests and track them, for a contact history, very useful in making sure your customers are happy.
You can use open-source software and affordable hosting to offer your customers a productive way to consult their required documents and reports on-line.
We are eating our own dog food, and as our customer you will have the ability to measure the progress of you project, submit requests for change, approve our work and obtain support.
Here is a business as usual work flow for your projects:
1. The customer orders work from you.
2. You open a new project for them and register them as a customer with access to your projects.
3. You break down the project in tasks, some of which have associated documents to be presented to your customers at specific dates.
4. You set up specific permissions for your customers and your employees on what they can or cannot do regarding the tasks and the documents.
5. Your employees update the tasks and the time they spent of the tasks as they deliver the project. When a task is done, they mark it as such.
6. You customer can log in and looks at the status for the project. They mark a completed task closed, to acknowledge they are happy with your deliverable. They can consult and download the documents on-line.
7. You run time sheet reports to understand the costs and find way to streamline your business,
After the project is complete or during the project, your customer can log customer support requests that you can track, to make sure your customers are happy.
To achieve this we will customize the TaskHopper package for you and install it with a secure copy of Joomla in your hosting account.