Joomla Extensions

[Kamran7860]

Hello everyone, Just wanted to know what Joomla extensions you all use for Websites/Intranets. Thanks.

I use:
>JCE
>JoomlaPack
>IE 8 Compatibility
>Camp26 Special Ajax RSS
>No Right Click

[lbradley]

Joomla Extensions

Has everything ive needed so far!

[rush_tech]

Joomla Extensions

Has everything ive needed so far!

I think you missed the point

I use the phoca gallery and download extensions find them very good

[lbradley]

LOL my bad forgot to read the post properly.. I'll get back to you.

[mossj]

Right here goes

I have Joomla 1.5.10 (I think, latest one anyway) NOT running on legacy mode.

I use the following extentions (all free)

COMPONENTS
Comment System - Chronocomment
Calender System - JEvents MVC
Forms System - JForms
Sitemap (with google linked) - Joomap
Download handling/listing - Remository
Slideshows - RSGallery2

PLUGINS
Rating System - VOTITALY
Map System - Google Maps
Analytics - Google BIGshot
SEO - SEOgenerator

MODULES
Analytics - JX Woopra
Directions (too school) - Google Simple Route
Additional Slideshow - Rokslideshow
Menu - EXmenu

All are hacked to remove any unwanted links or hidden and nofollow. Go to http://www.ashlawn.org.uk if you want to see the extentions in action.

[alan-d]

Go to http://www.ashlawn.org.uk if you want to see the extentions in action.

Error 500 Internal Server Error

[rush_tech]

Its giving the same here!

[mossj]

Its giving the same here!

yup just went down, not sure why yet but it has been working fine for a week and a half and I haven't touched it... Backends fine just the front end...

[Kamran7860]

Yep sites down, however it was working last night. If you do work out what is wrong i would love to know what the problem was.

[mossj]

It's odd...

So far..
Checked the DB Access which is - fine
Checked the DB - fine
Checked subdomains on same host - fine
Checked support sites of the extentions - fine
Checked support sites of the host - fine
Looking into the permissions - fine

Looking into uploading to subdomain, so i can start uninstalling extentions
Looking at installing another template to check that....


other than that I'm at a loss and may have to use a backup...

[fernt]

>No Right Click

I absolutely hate sites which don't allow you to right click - and I tend to leave and never go back.

Most to do it so that people can't right click and save images, but the average user knows how to get at them through the source code or by making a screenshot.

So, apart from that, you're stopping your users from using the right click menu completely. So, using a souped up Firefox, in my case, you're stopping me from going back, forward, refreshing, bookmaking the page on Delicious, highlighting a postcode and locating your school on Google Maps, choosing where I want to save a download... Do you really want to stop your users from doing any of those things?

Might be worth reconsidering.

Forms System - JForms

I use ChronoForms, but it's not particularly user friendly, so I'll have to check JForms out. Did you try ChronoForms and, if so, how do they compare? Thanks.

Hope you get your site back and running soon mossj - I've not had a chance to look at it yet, and it'll be interesting to see how you've implemented some of your ideas.

[mossj]

Just got this from the helpfull support

There are lot of these entries in your error_log:

[Thu Apr 23 11:05:50 2009] [error] [client 195.225.189.10] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /var/www/vhosts/ashlawn.org.uk/httpdocs/index.php on line 89

It looks like this is what is causing the site to go down. Any idea how to fix?

[fernt]

I could be (very) wrong, but that sounds to me like there's a rogue '<' character in your index.php which the error log is picking up every time the page is accessed - I very much doubt that'll be a reason for your site to go down, but it'd be worth removing it.

Try running it through a validator or maybe just searching the text for '<<' in case the character's been doubled up somewhere by mistake.

[mossj]

It's back, I LOVE CSNEWMEDIA support! For whatever reason teh index.php on the root had broken, so i just uploaded a copy from the back up. I doubt it was a rouge '<' as I have never touched index.php and noone else gets that error...

will have to turn on all the seo friendly urls again though

I use ChronoForms, but it's not particularly user friendly, so I'll have to check JForms out. Did you try ChronoForms and, if so, how do they compare? Thanks.

I think I tried chronoforms but to tell the truth i can't remember why I uninstalled it...

I can tell you Jforms does the following (maybe I'll list a feature chronoforms doesn't have...)
- email & database support
- Drag and drop creation interface
- Captcha
- NO advertising or Hidden links

[alan-d]

I absolutely hate sites which don't allow you to right click - and I tend to leave and never go back.

Most to do it so that people can't right click and save images, but the average user knows how to get at them through the source code or by making a screenshot.

So, apart from that, you're stopping your users from using the right click menu completely. So, using a souped up Firefox, in my case, you're stopping me from going back, forward, refreshing, bookmaking the page on Delicious, highlighting a postcode and locating your school on Google Maps, choosing where I want to save a download... Do you really want to stop your users from doing any of those things?

Might be worth reconsidering.

As al All Girls School we take whatever precautions are available to protect our students, if we could stop the taking of screenshots - we would

We have a Google map available on the site and any internal downloads open as pdfs.

Do you really want to stop your users from doing any of those things?

In an ideal world of course not - but it isn't is it?