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A dozen (Most Ridiculous) Myths about Joomla

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Joomla is the second most popular CMS (Content Management System). 

This open-source software offers several benefits, which makes it popular for building community websites, blogs, business websites, scalable and secure web applications, and a lot more.  

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PDF Embed v2.1.8 is released

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We are happy to announce availability of PDF Embed v2.1.8. PDF Embed is one of our most popular and free extension with ~1.4 lacs of downloads and counting. This release addresses a bug seen on PHP 7.x versions, it also has improvements for installation script. At the time of release, this version is compatible with the latest version of Joomla (3.8.13). Read on for the upgrade instructions and complete changelog.

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JMailAlerts v2.6.0 is released

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Hello Joomlers!
 
We are happy to announce the availability of new JMailAlerts v2.6.0. JMailAlerts is one of our most popular and FREE extension with 20K downloads and counting.

This release mainly addresses logging in JMailAlerts. Now, the logs are written into where Joomla logs path is configured. Also, email ids in the logs can be masked, giving you more control over sensitive information not being logged into log file. This is not all of it, we have also added an option to specify max log file size for log file. After reaching this size, log file will be rotated. 

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How to create widgets for your Shika user dashboard?

How to create widgets for your Shika user dashboard?

In the process of making Shika's user dashboard more user friendly we have made some major changes by adding new widgets to the dashboard. With this you can now build your own widgets and give your users the freedom to choose which widgets he/ she wants to be shown on the dashboard. We have created a new table #__tjlms_dashboard which contains...

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Ways to delete documents in Solr!

Ways to delete documents in Solr!

Solr is a open source standalone enterprise search server. It comes with great features like full-text search, auto suggest, faceted search, database integration and many more. To know more you can visit http://lucene.apache.org/solr/.

Solr extension is a light-weight, very fast and feature-rich library which allows to communicate with the Apache Solr Server in PHP. To know more solr-php methods visit http://php.net/manual/en/book.solr.php

We have been using Apache Solr in one of our service project. The project is a website which is basically collection of artefacts, posters and other memorabilia from across the globe, importantly India. It currently has about 75,000 objects in our database. In addition, there are roughly 100,000 items in ‘masterlists’. Within the masterlists we have the list of people, films etc, which are the related data for the objects.

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How to generate video thumbnails in PHP?

How to generate video thumbnails in PHP?

A Video link without a thumbnail is like a smartphone without a camera, you can use it but no one would like to use it. If you want your visitors to see your video, you need to make sure that your video link has a thumbnail which is forcing users to click on the link.

How can we do this?

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Using Joomla logging to easily debug MySQL issues

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Sometimes, you might have operations like crons running PHP scripts behind the scenes. If there are any errors in it, it can become difficult to debug them since they might not affect the entire website. Whether you are doing this with any PHP framework or in a Joomla component, logging can help you debug such issues.Here is how you can use Joomla'...

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Zoo - Creating an address field element

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Here's a short tutorial on creating a Zoo element that has multiple sub-fields. A good example for the same, which we've also used as a sample is an address field. An address field will typically have different parts such as city, zip, state etc. I assume you have already gone through the zoo documentation on creating a new custom element - http://...

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