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Snippet - layout switching

• Type: Code Snippet
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-06-19

Here's some code you can use in your template index file to switch between different layouts based on the menu tree -> menu item ID. You can do all kinds of funky stuff with this.

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Component - Prototyper

• Name: jfoobar prototyper
• Type: Component
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-06-19
• Copyright: jfoobar
• License: GPL 2.0

With this component you can create your sites complete menu system without even creating sections, categories or articles.

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Template - Prototyper

• Name: jfoobar prototyper
• Type: Template
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-06-19
• Copyright: jfoobar
• License: GPL 2.0

This is a base or start template. Everything is commented in the html and css for learning purposes.

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Phorum module

• Name: phorum
• Type: Phorum module
• Compatible: Phorum 5.2+
• Last update: 2009-02-13
• Copyright: moovum
• License: GPL 2.0

This is a Phorum module extension (so not a Joomla! module!) that enables bi-directional user management and also bi-directional single sign on between your Joomla! and your Phorum installation.

Along with the Joomla! plugin it provides the following logic:

• Bi-directional user login and logout. This means that when a user logs into Joomla, it also logs you into Phorum. This also works the other way around, logging into Phorum will log you into Joomla. Logout logic works the same.
• Bi-directional user management. When you create/update/delete a user in Joomla! it will be also created in Phorum. Only those fields that are used in both systems will be used (obviously). The same logic works also from within Phorum, a password change will also be implemented in Joomla (as with change of username and mail address).
• New user registration logic of Phorum also works towards Joomla! The user account will only be accessible from within Joomla! after the user has confirmed the registration mail (if configured).

To install the phorum module, just unpack the zipfile, configure and enable. The only fields you need are the absolute path to the Joomla! installation, and a default group assignment for new users within Joomla!

To have it all working, you also need to upgrade the Joomla plugin to version 1.1. If you use the 1.0 version, you will suffer a login/user update recursion problem.

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Phorum plugin

• Name: phorum
• Type: System Plugin
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-01-30
• Copyright: moovum
• License: GPL 2.0

With this Joomla! 1.5+ plug-in you can synchronize the users between Joomla! and the Phorum forum solution. This plug-in also does single sign-on authentication when a user logs in the Joomla! site.

The username, login and password are synchronized between Joomla! and Phorum. Yhe user is automatically created when it is added within Joomla! The user details are automatically changed when you (or your user) changes his information, when you delete a user from Joomla! the user also will get removed from Phorum. The user will be blocked from Phorum login if you block a user in Joomla!

This is a very simple plug-in that handles basic user management. You need a Phorum extension if you also want to synchronise user management from within Forum. This solution is (not yet) provided here.

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Plugin - Redirect

• Name: jfoobar_redirect
• Type: System Plugin
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-01-10
• Copyright: jfoobar
• License: GPL 2.0

With this Joomla! 1.5+ plugin your installation can understand different URL's. For example we could use http://jfoobar.org/tiny-147 as a valid URL. The plug-in then redirects to the corresponding article. This logic is used in social environments like twitter. This plug-in is used on the JFoobar twitter page.

The plugin does not intervene with any existing plugin that does SEF or URL replacement. All it does is send a redirect to the browser when an article is found, so all existing URL's will remain untouched

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