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Joomla Community Extensions Unveiled - Which is right for you?
Written by thieaw   
Wednesday, 06 January 2010 08:40

Social media is growing, adapting, and changing daily. So how do you take your Joomla web site and make it a community? How do you tie into all the social media outlets like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

You can spend hours customizing, or you can install one of the many community extensions made for Joomla.

Each has its advantages, each has a slightly different model, but all are top of the class extensions. The key to picking the right community extension is in knowing exactly what the extension does, and what your requirements are.

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Change Register Globals "ON" or "OFF"
Written by thieaw   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 00:00

Register globals is a PHP environment setting that has been the subject of controversy for sometime. Older versions of PHP often have this variable set to on and that setting is known to leave a site vulnerable to hacking. Further information is available at the PHP website. Current Joomla! releases do not require this setting to be on, and best practices dictate that it should be changed to off. (Joomla! 1.0.x releases also have a related emulator for this setting, which was implemented for backward compatibility with older components and extensions. It is generally preferred not to enable this capability.) If you have a component that requires this setting, you should look for an update, or find an alternative component.

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Register Globals In Joomla! Instalation
Written by thieaw   
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 22:00

During the Joomla installation, in the first page of the setup, the installation script checks the server setup. In many server setups you could find the line "Register Globals" set to ON, and evidenced in red like it's an error.
This error does not prevent you from installing Joomla, in fact it's more a warning than an error.

How can we solve this warning? We can use PHP5 rather than PHP4 - if your hosting allows this -, because PHP5 has Register Globals set to OFF by default.

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