Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

I just tried the validator.w3.org to check my site and found out that jomsocial doesn't have the "alt" attribute in its image statements. Here is a quick fix...

Go into the component directory and into the template you use.

Edit the "activities.index.php"

• add the "alt" attribute to the img tag.

Here is a list of files you need to edit as well.

./applications.edit.php:           <img src="/<?php echo JURI::base() . 'plugins/community/' . $application->apps . '/favicon.png'; ?>" class="icon" />
./applications.edit.php:           <img src="/<?php echo JURI::base() . 'plugins/community/' . $application->apps . '/favicon.png'; ?>" class="icon" />
./groups.list.php:                 <img src="/<?php echo $group->thumb;?>" border="0" class="avatar" />
./groups.viewdiscussion.php:       <img src="/<?php echo $creator->getThumbAvatar(); ?>" /><br />
./profile.header.php:              <li><img src="/<?php echo $karmaImgUrl; ?>" /></li>
./profile.header.php.org:          <li><img src="/<?php echo $karmaImgUrl; ?>" /></li>
./frontpage.index.php:             <img class="avatar hasTip" title="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($row->caption);?>::<?php echo JText::sprintf('Uploaded by %1$s' , $row->user->getDisplayName() );?>" src="/<?php echo JURI::base() . $row->thumbnail; ?>" width="45" height="45" />
./frontpage.index.php:             <img class="avatar hasTip" src="/<?php echo $row->user->getThumbAvatar(); ?>" title="<?php echo cAvatarTooltip($row->user); ?>" width="45" height="45" />
./frontpage.index.php:             <a href="/<?php echo CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid='.$row->id ); ?>"><img class="avatar hasTip" src="/<?php echo $row->smallAvatar; ?>" title="<?php echo cAvatarTooltip($row); ?>" width="45" height="45" /></a>
./frontpage.index.php:             <img src="/<?php echo $video->thumb; ?>" width="50" height="50" class="avatar hasTip" title="<?php echo $video->title; ?>::<?php echo $video->description; ?>" />
./inbox.list.php:                  <img style="vertical-align:middle;" id="new-message-<?php echo $message->id;?>" src="/<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>components/com_community/templates/default/images/new.gif"/>
./inbox.list.php:                  <img style="vertical-align:middle; display:none;" id="new-message-<?php echo $message->id;?>" src="/<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>components/com_community/templates/default/images/new.gif"/>
./applications.browse.php:         <img src="/<?php echo JURI::base() . 'plugins/community/' . $application->name . '/favicon.png'; ?>" class="icon" />
./photos.photo.php:                <div class="photoBtn next"><img src="/" height="50"/></div>
./photos.photo.php:                <div class="photoBtn prev"><img src="/" height="50"/></div>
./groups.viewgroup.php:            <img src="/<?php echo $group->avatar; ?>" border="0" class="avatar" />
./groups.viewgroup.php:            <img border="0" class="avatar hasTip" src="/<?php echo $member->getThumbAvatar(); ?>" title="<?php echo cAvatarTooltip($member);?>" />

I make use of the gallery2 integration in Joomla. Al my components and modules use the username instead of the real name to link to them or to show them. I also wanted this with gallery2 for my user albums and for the image block. 

Here is the way to do it. Open your favorite text editor and go to the following files (located from your gallery2 folder):

(Please note, this change will change all your gallery instances)

libwww-perl (LWP) is fine WWW client/server library for Perl. Unfortunately this library used by many script kiddy, crackers, and spam bots. Of course you don't want them on your website.

So how to see if they are trying to hack your website. Take a look in your access log to see a match, by doing: (this might be a different location)

grep ‘libwww-perl’ /var/www/logs/access.log

An other option is to install JoomlaStats. With this tool you can get a lot of information in a nice overview. Take a look at the visitors section to see any libWWW browsers.

How to deny these scripts:

Anyone who has played around with Joomla for a while must have noticed that content items listed in the backend do not get sorted by date created. Instead they are sorted by section, then category and lastly by date created!

That is not a big deal if you have a corporate or personal website, with content getting updated rarely! But if you run a news website, with multiple sections/categories and a considerable amount of content items added every day, it is a big deal!!

A friend of mine (Jasper who build this great site www.werkenopdeantillen.info) point me to this site. This site describes how to setup your joomla environment with community builder so you can type http://www.domain.tld/username. It will forward you to the actual user page.

I modified his way just a bit so it does just what I want. This is how to do it.

First you have to make sure your virtualhosts (if you use this) allows your .htaccess to be read and used. I use OpenBSD with apache and the default configuration says:

AllowOverride None

I have changed the control panel a little bit today. I wanted to point to the community builder instead of the user component. So this is what you do. Change the following line with the next one.

File: administrator/modules/mod_quickicon.php (line 75)

$link = 'index2.php?option=com_users';

$link = 'index2.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=showusers';

My newest addition to the site is the combination of 2 modules (and 1 component belonging to one of them). This is what I wanted to create. I have a few articles in every category and I wanted to list them before the articles. So you would have an overview before the blog.

Unfortunatly I didn't succeed but I have figured out some that is quite as nice.