Website security has always been a hot topic, and now it’s even a hotter topic as security standards, such as PCI-DSS, are becoming required by credit card companies as well as internal security auditors (especially in schools, universities, and other websites). As a result, we are currently experiencing a surge in projects consisting of securing […]
We have previously examined a problem where one of our clients was not able to login to the administrator’s control panel, and we have concluded that the root of the problem is that PHP was unable to write the session information to the filesystem because it doesn’t have the proper permissions. This problem often happens […]
There are many reasons why someone would want to accept a payment on his website, including: – He might be selling a product – He might be selling a service – He might be accepting donation But if that someone happens to run a Joomla website, how an he accept payments? Like everything in life, […]
One of Joomla’s interesting (and common) problems is when a user logs in to Joomla’s administrator’s control panel only to be greeted by a blank page instead of seeing Joomla’s control panel. The blank page doesn’t have any code in it, at all, not even the <html> and the <body> tags. So what’s going on? […]
If you’re reading this post then probably the following has happened (or is currently happening) to you: – You disable a module (or change a template, or disable/enable/update any extension). – You go to your website and check if the module is no longer there. – You still see the module. – You go back […]
One of our little projects today was interesting. The owner of the website was not able to login to his Joomla’s Administrator. Here is what we knew about the problem when we first started working on it: – The website was using Joomla 1.0x (which is more Mambo than Joomla). – The owner of the […]
Many of our clients want to have multiple categories on Joomla’s JEevents (An event component for Joomla). We always accommodate the request, and here’s how: – We create a field called “multiple_categories” in the main events table. – We change the field type of categories from a single select to a multiple select (see below) […]