Joomla 2.5 released – New Features

Joomla 2.5 was released on the 24 of January which is the official release after Joomla 1.7

The new features include:

Joomla Smart Search

Smart search offers a faster, more user-friendly search experience for your visitors. It features auto-completion, which allows the user to find relevant content by just typing the first several letters of a word.

Multi-Database Support

Multiple database support makes it possible to run the Joomla on many different databases types other than MySQL and MySQLi. This facilitates integration and update management processes. Joomla 2.5.0 allows different drivers to be written that will support different versions of SQL databases. Current drivers exist for the MySQL and MS SQL databases, with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and PDO drivers being developed.

  • CAPTCHA in Core
  • Linking New Menus with a Module
  • Use the Images and URL Fields to Create Simple Standardized Layouts
  • Choose whether Administrator to Get Email When New Users Register
  • Menu Item Note
  • Custom Text Filters
  • Greater Flexibility Filtering by Category in Article Manager
  • Manager for Language Overrides
  • User Notes
  • Flexible Newsfeed Order
  • Image Option for the Offline Page
  • Option to Have a Site Come Up Offline After Installation
  • Better Performance in Menu Item Edit page
  • Alternate meta tags for multi-lingual sites
  • Improving SEO: New system plugin: languagecode
  • Improving SEO: New system plugin: languagecode
  • View all new features
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Dreamweaver: The following translators were not loaded due to errors: ICERegions.htm

I tried to open one of my files (which I have worked on previously without any errors) and got the following error:

The following translators were not loaded due to errors:  ICERegions.htm:  has configuration information that his invalid.  Server Model SSI.htm:  has configuration information that is invalid.

I followed some advice to reset the workspace:

Go to Dreamweaver > Windows > Workspace layout > Reset “workspace name”

BUT it did not work.

The below solved the Dreamweaver translators were not loaded error for me:

1. Close Dreamweaver.
2. Open a Windows Explorer window.
3. In the Address bar enter %appdata% and click Enter.
4. Open the Adobe directory.
5. Open the Dreamweaver folder for the version of Dreamweaver you are using.
6. Dreamweaver CS4 users only – open the en_US directory.
7. Open the Configuration directory.
8. Locate the WinFileCache.dat file. There may be some other numbers appended to this filename.
9. Save the file somewhere as a backup just in case.
10. Delete the file from the Configuration directory.
11. Open Dreamweaver and try again.

Note: You do this at your own risk.

Hope this helps.

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cpanel email signature software

I’m looking for software to use on my cpanel account to add email signatures on the server level, NOT the webmail level.

I want to send emails with a predefined signatures for groups of email addresses.
Has anyone found / used anything for this purpose, please?

I know you can use 3rd party software for an exchange server, but it seems over kill for 50 emails.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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BF Survey pro does not verify TEXT Fields

I’ve installed BF Survey, but it does not verify required (Mandatory) TEXT fields.

I’ve worked with the BF Survey support team and disabled all modules and plugins to try and get it to work, but none of it seems to be the problem.

I then contacted the excellent support team at Artisteer and they helped to identify the problem which gave me this reply:

We have analyzed the issue, it turned out to be related to the INPUT tag written in capital letters.

<INPUT id=’cs_fn’ name=’cs_fn’ size=’65′ MAXLENGTH=255>

Such capitalized tags are actually not expected because this is not a valid xhtml.

I then edited the following file:
/components/com_bfsurvey_pro/views/onepage/tmpl/default.php

I replace all the <INPUT … tags with <input and everything works as it should.

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