The Techjoomla Blog

Stay updated with all the latest happenings at Techjoomla. From news about the developments in your favourite extensions to Tips & Tricks about the Joomla CMS, Framework & Development.

Quick2Cart 2.4 with Bootstrap 3 and more!

Quick2Cart 2.4 with Bootstrap 3 and more!

We’re pleased to announce the much awaited Bootstrap 3 support for Quick2Cart with v2.4. This is how some of the views look with Bootstrap 3.     Previous Next   Backwards compatibility for Bootstrap 2.x Quick2Cart will be set to Bootstrap 3 by default after the installation. If you want to use it with conventional Bootstrap 2.x...

Continue reading
4
  6829 Hits

JMailAlerts Plugins Split and v2.5.5 Availability for Paid Plugins!

JMailAlerts Plugins Split and v2.5.5 Availability for Paid Plugins!

On popular demand, we have decided to make JMailAlerts plugins available for individual purchase. Why the Split? For instance if someone is using JomSocial/ EasySocial/ CB he had to purchase all the unnecessary plugins since they were all in the same subscription package. Again same thing while downloading. It was bit harder to find the particular ...

Continue reading
6
  6244 Hits

The Joomla Speak!

The Joomla Speak!

We all are aware that Joomla has turned 10 this year. It has been a long journey full of innovation, rough patches, excitement and progress. Over the years,  Joomla has grown bolder, prettier and smarter; winning hearts and awards. To celebrate this year and make it more exciting we are conducting a series of interviews and will publish them o...

Continue reading
2
  4619 Hits

#hashtags in #Joomla

#hashtags in #Joomla

Like all communities #joomla has its favourite hashtags that you around the twitterverse (Yes thats an actual word !). There are many that keep coming and going but there are some that have become part of the cultural fabric of the community. #joomla I obviously have to start with this hashtag that's used to tweet anything and everything ...

Continue reading
4
  9871 Hits

JTicketing 1.7 Alpha out now!

JTicketing 1.7 Alpha out now!

JTicketing! An event booking system for Joomla is getting a new major release with some exciting features. We are getting a early Alpha out to you guys so that you can provide us a fresh perspective and report bugs if any.  What do we have in here? Email Reminders and SMS reminders to Attendees Email Reminder Also now you have different t...

Continue reading
1
  4030 Hits

Email Beautifier 1.6.3 with add or override template facility and Joomla Live Updates support

Email Beautifier 1.6.3 with add or override template facility and Joomla Live Updates support
We have released Email Beautifier version 1.6.3. In this version we have added Joomla Updates to notify users about new versions and Live Updates support to let users receive and install updates right inside your Joomla.
And most important feature -now, admin can override the existing template or easily add new template.

Talking more about Email Beautifier,  If you are looking for something fresh and new for your Joomla Emails which makes your emails alive! The search ends here, Email Beautifier makes sure that all emails going from your Joomla site are wrapped in an awesome template! Email Beautifier also ensures all emails going out of your Joomla site have an uniform and consistent look and feel. You can read more about it here.

Continue reading
1
  3769 Hits

How to get ‘btn-group’ buttons in plain html?

How to get ‘btn-group’ buttons in plain html?

We all know how to get those nice colored buttons for Radio form field type, its by adding class="btn-group” in the xml argument for that field. There can be an exception to this, if you are not able to have a form field in your view? And you still crave for those nice colored buttons? Here is how you can have those buttons with some plain HTML, CS...

Continue reading
1
  8970 Hits
Tags:

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...

Continue reading
1
  4102 Hits

JBolo v3.3 Development Update!

JBolo v3.3 Development Update!

Hey all, A lot of JBolo users asked for a Skype like one page view form where users can access all chat conversations. So here we are with an update regarding JBolo development. Here is a snapshot of how one page chat-conversations view will look like in JBolo v3.3.   With this view users will be able to access all their chats, group chat...

Continue reading
3
  4275 Hits

Passing filter values via the url to Joomla Admin List Views

Passing filter values via the url to Joomla Admin List Views

We have already seen how you can introduce filters to list views in the Joomla admin & collate them under the Search tools menu previously in our Blog  last year.  The Search tools filters are extremely useful to admins especially if your extension manages a lot of data. As a usability feature, Joomla retains the s...

Continue reading
1
  7287 Hits

Overcome your crowdfunding challenges with JGive 1.7

Overcome your crowdfunding challenges with JGive 1.7

JGive a premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! is getting into a new era starting this release. As promised we are delivering all the features, in fact we’ve managed to add an extra one ;) As we all know that crowdfunding has always been a favourite topic of discussion at the dinner table. The discussions mainly revolve around issues like trust...

Continue reading
2
  6327 Hits

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.

Continue reading
5
  18720 Hits

Shika Beta 12 gets you a surprise!

Shika Beta 12 gets you a surprise!

We are regularly rolling out updated Beta versions of Shika as promised. In previous blogs you might have noticed that we’ve said that the feature list for version 1.0 has been finalized and we will not be adding any new features till 1.1.

However, we have made an exception and added some tempting features!

Continue reading
7
  4483 Hits
Tags:

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?

Continue reading
22
  56770 Hits

Shika Beta 11 Out Now!

Shika Beta 11 Out Now!

It has been really long since the Beta 10 release of Shika! As we all know that we are really close to the stable release which can happen anytime soon. Entire feature list has been finalized and this is the Beta 11 we are rolling out. You will be overwhelmed to see the number of Bug fixes (500+) done in Shika after Beta 10, especially if you ...

Continue reading
4
  3727 Hits

Blog Topics