Joomla Day2

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Joomla! Day2

Phusit Konsurin

Payap University

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Day 27. Content Menu Article Manager Creating an Article Article Trash Section Manager Category Manager Frontpage Manager 8. Components Menu Banner Contacts Creation of a Menu Link for the Website News Feeds Polls Web Links


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9.Extensions Menu Install/Uninstall Components,Modules,Plug-ins Module manager(Site Module, Administrator Module) Plugins Manager Template Manager (Site , Administrator) Language Manager


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11. Joomla! Extension What is Joomla! Extension? Component Module Plugin

12. Joomla! Extension More

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7.Content Menu


Content Menu Concepts

Content menu contains everything that is associated with content .It is called an article in Joomla!.

Content

Section1

Section2

Static Content

Category1

Category2

Category1

Category2

Content item1

Content item2

Content item3

Content item1

Content item1

Content item2

Content item1

Content item1


Section Manager


Editing Existing Sections


Creating a New Section


Link the section using Menus Go to Menus | Main Menu click on the New icon. Then click on the Articles menu item type.


Category Manager


Edit existing Category

Goto Content | Article Manager | Edit


Creating a New Category


Front Page Manager

The front page is the start page of your website. Joomla! support start page with several articles

Article

News

Photo Gallery


Changing the layout of the start page

(Menu | Main Menu | Home | Edit


Article Manager

This is the central control for the organization of the articles on your website


Deault parameters of all article


Editing Icons for an Article


Creating a New Article


Parameters—Article


Insert Images into Article

Joomla! by default allows you to link images that are in the Media Manager into your article

root

images

stories

folder1

folder2

Folder site

image


Insert Images into Article Position the cursor at the place where you would like the image to be displa

yed click on the Image button If the image isn't in the media section yet, you can upload it by clicking the U

pload icon while you are editing the content.

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8. Components Menu


Components

A component is a black box. you can use the black box for various completely differen

t purposes The black box contains business logic now there are over 2,000 supplemental components for

Joomla


Banner

The banner component makes the display of advertising banners on your site.

Banner consists of Banners, Clients, and Categories.

A full banner is 468 x 60 pixels and should not exceed 20 KB in file size. The format is .gif, .jpg, or .png.


BannerClients

Client1 Client2 Clinet3

banner1 banner2 banner3 banner1 banner2 banner

Category

Client

Banner

Categories

Cat.1 Cat.2 Cat.3


Banner Clients

Components | Banners | Clients | New


Manage Banners

Components | Banners | Banners


Graphic Banners

first upload the file from the media area into into the /images/banner/


New Banner


Contacts

you can enter the contact persons for your company in a website by department.

Contacts

ContactCat.1

ContactCat.2

ContactCat.3

E-mail E-mail E-mail


Contact Manager

Components | Contacts | Contacts


New a contact


To build the link to contact Menus Top | Menu | New or Menus MainMenu | Menu | New


News Feeds


Categories

It is the news feed categories. Using same as category in contact


Feeds

Components | News feeds | Feeds | New:

http://www.rssthai.com/


Feeds Result


Polls The integrated poll module makes it

possible for you to publish polls on

your site. One poll is already included

with the sample data.


Polls


Web Links

you can integrate web links into your website. Joomla! provides the categories again and counts the hit

s on the links In the user menu, you can have your registered visitors s

uggest links to be added to the list.


Web Links Manager


Web Links Categories

The link categories, which can be accessed in the respective

Components | Web Links | Categories menu:


Web links new or edit

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9.Extensions Menu


Extensions

An extension is a package that extends your Joomla! Installation.

Component Language Template Module Mambot in Joomla 1.0.x only (in

later versions Mambots are referred to as Plugins)

Plugin from Joomla! 1.5.0 onwards (formerly known as Mambots)

Package in Joomla! 1.6 onwards Library in Joomla! 1.6 onwards

extension

com lang template Module Plugin


Extensions Menu (Install/Uninstall)

The three options for installing extensions: Uploading of a file package Installation from a directory Installation by entering a URL


Extensions Menu (Install/Uninstall)

The Install, Components, Modules, Plugins, Templates and Languages tabs each contain listings of the installed extensions


Module Manager

A module contains business logic and a user interface. It does not have its own administration section as most components do

Modules can be controlled by parameters.


Module Manager(Site Module)

Footer This module displays Joomla! license information in the f

ooter. You can deactivate it and suppress this information on the front page.


Module Manager(Site Module) Banner This module controls the display of the banners. Besides the familiar

settings for details and page allocation, you can also configure the following parameters


Main Menus

The internal designation mod_mainmenu is used for all menu modules.

The Joomla! 1.5 menu that we set up also has the main_menu type


Statistics This module displays information about your server.


Login Form

There are two available views for the login module. If the visitors have not logged in yet, they get a login form where they can enter their username and password.


Login Form


Wrapper

The Wrapper module links external, non-Joomla! created content inside a so-called iframe.

An iframe is an HTML tag and produces a scrollable area within a website.

You can integrate entire websites that are located online on other servers with this module into Joomla! content.

http://www.pttplc.com/en/oilprice.asp


Wrapper


Feed Display With this module you can display a news feed in a

module on the website.

http://www.rssthai.com/rss/business.xml

News Feed


Feed Display

http://www.rssthai.com/rss/business.xml


Who's Online

The Who's Online module displays who happens to be on the site at the time. The module also differentiates between guests and registered users. Number of guests and members Usernames of the logged users A combination of the above two


Advertisement This module is a copy of the banner module. This, by

default, has to do with banners that are in the text ads category and that contain text links.


Random Image

This module will display randomly selected images from a folder of your choice.

Image Type: Here you define the type of the image. (jpg/png/gif).


Syndication The website's news feed is delivered by the Syndication module. You can define the standards that you are offering in the parameters

. The articles on the front page represent the content of the offered n

ews feed:

Click this icon on the webpage

Browser will add in bookmark


Newsflash

The Newsflash module displays randomized intro texts of your articles:


Latest News

This module displays the latest (newest) articles. By default it is assigned to the user1 position


Popular

This module displays the most popular articles:


Search In the default template, the Search module is only an inp

ut template. This template does not change all of the parameters. The display text is modified in order to demonstrate the c

onfiguration options. It is using for search in the site only.


Plugins Manager

Plug-ins can absolutely be compared with a Joomla! scripting language.

Plug-ins are always assigned to a particular type. You can activate and deactivate the individual functions i

n the Plugins section plug-ins have few or even no changeable setting


Template Manager


Editing a Template


Language Manager

you can select the languages for your website and for the back-end section.

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10. Joomla! Extension


Installation Joomla Extension You can download extension files from website http://extensions.joomla.org/



A component is the largest and most complex of the extension types. Components are like mini-applications that renders the main body of the page.

Modules are used for small bits of the page that are generally less complex and able to be seen across different components.

A plugin (Mambot) is a section of code that runs when a pre-defined event happens within Joomla! Editors are plugins

Languages are packaged as either a core language pack or an extension language pack. They allow both the Joomla! core as well as third party components and modules to be internationalised.



Site map component


Site map component

ComponentConfiguration

Create MenuLink to component

(xmap)

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12. Joomla! Extension More


More Extension

JooBlog JoomlaExplorer Event Calendar Flipping Book Etc.

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