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Joomla: How to find the module positions for any page

Versions: Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.x

To have a visual indication of all the module positions for a specific page, you can use the following procedure:-

In the administrative control panel, go to Extensions > Template Manager. Click on Options and set Preview Module Positions to enabled.

Go to the web page that you wish to see the module positions.

Look at the URL field in your browser and search for any “parameter” at the end of the URL, separated from the main part of the URL by a question mark. For example, in the URL http://yourdomain.com/index.php?id=17, the “id=17″ is a parameter.

If there are no parameters, add “?tp=1″ to the URL and press ENTER. For example, http://yourdomain.com/index.php?tp=1.

If there are already parameters in the URL, add “&tp=1″ to the URL and press ENTER. For example, http://yourdomain.com/index.php?id=17&tp=1.

ALl the module positions will be outlined in a different color, usually in red.

Note that for some situations there might be module positions available that are not outlined. This can happen when a template defines those module positions as conditional on there being modules enabled in that position. If there are no modules enabled in that position then the template may adapt and the position will not be visible.

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A quicker Joomla site with no cookie

There are a lot of cookies running in Joomla  for tracking, hit counting, statistics, etc., that are slowing the site, upload the server, and upset the users.

There is a way to disable all these cookies for visitors, keeping the usual options, including the front end login. Follow these stages:

Disable the statistics of the site, by stopping the mosvisitor cookie, from Global configuration > Statistics > Statistics: No

Disable the Template Chooser module to stop the jos_user_template cookie.

Take a look to the components to see the ones that start their own PHP sessions. Try do avoid these sessions.

Delete the comment out (//) from line 697 of  /includes/joomla.php:

// setcookie( $sessionCookieName, '-', false, '/' );

Due to the set of POST/GET parameter namely “force_session”, set in standard login module, there will be anyway a user session for log in. If you use a different module for log in, add this parameter.

Note: You can comment out the line 25 in  /offline.php: // session_start(); It seems that this is a reminiscence of the old versions, and there is no need to start a PHP session in this file, as Joomla uses its own session way.

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Joomla: How to make a pagination like Google

edit the libraries/joomla/html/pagination.php

In the function __construct see the line $displayedPages = 10;

Replace the $this->set( ‘pages.start’,… with the following lines

$_remainder = $this->get('pages.current') % $displayedPages; if($__remainder == 0) $this->set( 'pages.start', (floor( $this->get('pages.current') / $displayedPages)) * $displayedPages -4); elseif($__remainder == 1 and $this->get('pages.current') > $displayedPages) $this->set( 'pages.start', (floor( ($this->get('pages.current')-1) / $displayedPages)) * $displayedPages -4); else $this->set( 'pages.start', (floor( $this->get('pages.current') / $displayedPages)) * $displayedPages + 1);

In the function _buildDataObject find the line

for ($i = $this->get('pages.start'); $i <= $stop; $i ++)

In this for loop, find the line

if ($i != $this->get('pages.current') || $this->_viewall)

Add the elseif statement,

if ($i != $this->get('pages.current') || $this->_viewall) $data->pages[$i]->base = $offset; $data->pages[$i]->link = JRoute::_("&limitstart=".$offset); elseif($i == $this->get('pages.current')) $data->pages[$i]->text = '<b>' . $i . '</b>';

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