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Joomla & VirtueMart Tips & How To's

Joomla is a very popular and extendable CMS (Content Management System) that is used by 10's of thousands of websites.
VirtueMart is the e-commerce component for Joomla.
We at GJC Web Design have used this system in many of our designs including this one. In fact we specialise in developing, modifying and adapting Joomla & VirtueMart websites.
If you need any help or advice just contact us.

Below are links to various tips, developments and examples.

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Joomla 1.5 nofollow Plugin updated to include new window attribute

Joomla 1.5 Plugin noFollow We have updated our Joomla 1.5 nofollow Plugin to include the ability to select whether the outgoing link opens in a new window or not. This is set in the backend parameters.
Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 09:58

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SOBI2 Show Category Contents module finally released

Joomla 1.5 Modules Sorry about the delay but today we finally released the SOBI2 Show Category Contents module. As it's the first release and although it's been extensively tested, if there is a problem please report it immediately. The price is ?10.
Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 19:14

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A Joomla Module to show SOBI2 Category Contents - SOBI2 Show Category

Joomla 1.5 Modules We needed the ability to show items from particular SOBI2 Categories at the bottom of articles. Here is the result, the SOBI2 Show Category Contents Module. Now you can show any SOBI2 Category exactly where you want and configure which fields are displayed and style the display as you want it.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 January 2013 17:16

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Joomlaxi Captcha 1.0 Released

Joomla 1.5 Captcha Plugin Have just tried the new Joomlaxi Captcha 1.0 Plugin and are totally impressed. Works straight out of the box and should be part of Joomla Core.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:37

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No menus appear for mod_product_categories VirtueMart

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 You install your VirtueMart mod_product_categories to have a nice drop down or flyout VirtueMart Categories menus but the only menu you can get to show is the simple list!
Last Updated on Sunday, 27 December 2009 13:53

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New Joomla Show Images Module released

Joomla 1.5 Modules Today we released another free module. A client ask for a module to show a set of images from a folder. There was nothing available from Joomla Extensions so we coded this. I have no idea whether this would be useful to someone but here it is.
Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:30

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A Joomla Module to show images from a folder - Show Images

Joomla 1.5 Modules A client ask for some how to show a set of images from a folder in a module. There was nothing available from Joomla Extensions so I wrote this. I have no idea whether this would be useful to someone but here it is.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 January 2013 18:28

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Separate links for Briask ImageSlideShow module images Part 2

Joomla 1.5 The ImageSlideShow module from briask.com is an excellent and simple image gallery which shows any images from a designated folder and have one link from the images. Clients (and I see on Briask's own forum) have asked whether it would be possible to have individual links to individual images. This hack allows you to link any image to any url.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:35

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Separate links for Briask ImageSlideShow module images

Joomla 1.5 The ImageSlideShow module from briask.com is an excellent and simple image gallery which shows any images from a designated folder and have one link from the images. Clients (and I see on Briask's own forum) have asked whether it would be possible to have individual links to individual images. I've come up with a couple of ways.
Last Updated on Monday, 14 December 2009 09:05

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Wrong currency symbol shown in VirtueMart Paypal checkout

VirtueMart 1.1 This is actually a major bug in the VirtueMart Paypal integration. In a multi-currency store the currency symbol is completely ignored by the Paypal payment module and is passed as the VirtueMart store default currency symbol I found this solution in the VirtueMart Forums.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 12:55

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Disable Joomla php error reporting with @ (at) symbol

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 I have had a couple of occasions when uncooperative, client chosen hosts have overridden the Joomla error reporting setting. In this case unimportant "Notice" errors can be disabled from within the code.
Last Updated on Monday, 07 December 2009 11:40

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Change the VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 The VirtueMart default currency symbol is configured in the Admin-->Store-->Edit Store-->Currency Display Style but in a multi-currency Shop you just have the default currency symbols like EUR and USD for the other currencies. I found this hack to solve this in the VirtueMart forums.
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:49

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Select VirtueMart Currency By Language

VirtueMart 1.1 Joomla 1.5 Joomfish 2.0 Have seen a few times the request for the VirtueMart currency to be set by the chosen language. After a fair amount of trial and error I've finally got this to work.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:16

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Joomla & VirtueMart How To's by RSS Feed

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 We at GJC Web Design are pleased to announce that all our tips and how to's are available by RSS feed. Simply click the Feedburner icon on the top right to subscribe to our RSS service or enter your email address to be notified when new articles are added.
Last Updated on Monday, 07 December 2009 11:47

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How to Customize the VirtueMart Home Page (Shop Page)

VirtueMart 1.1 If you make a link just to the VirtueMart component as many do as a Front Page to their shop you get a rather boring list of top level categories and/or category thumbnails. It can be made a lot more interesting and helpful to your visitor.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:16

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VirtueMart 1.1 Product Reviews message when not logged in

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 If your using JoomlaWorks Tabs for your VirtueMart product pages and a separate tab for adding a product review, if your not logged in the tab is just blank. Here's how to leave a message like "You must be logged in to leave a review".
Last Updated on Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:05

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How to show correct modules on ccNewsletter thank you pages

Joomla 1.5 ccNewsletter If you have different module layouts on different pages the thank you and other acknowledgement messages (subscribe, un-subscribe etc ) from ccNewsletter component won't return the correct module layout. This is because the return urls are lacking an Itemid.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 12:23

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How to add the VirtueMart Breadcrumbs to the Browse Pages

Joomla 1.5 VirtueMart 1.1 Adding the Virtuemart Breadcrumbs to your Browse pages is not native to Virtuemart. Here are the steps and files needed to achieve this.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:31

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How to find a Whois Server response for automated lookup

Joomla 1.5 + 1.0 When I was installing the new Whois Lookup Module I noticed a real lack of documentation on how to discover the correct server response from the various Whois servers . I set out below how to do this.
Last Updated on Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:59

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Changing the Joomla Offline page how to

Joomla 1.5 When you take your Joomla site "Offline" it is nice to have a page that fits in with your site design and explains to the visitor whats going on. Here are the steps and files needed to achieve this.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 January 2013 08:49

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