Recently I was doing a VirtueMart upgrade from version 2 to the latest version, as well as upgrading Joomla! 2.5 to latest 3.9.* version. With all of the frustrations and pitfalls that come with this process, the one thing just took me so much time to fix. I was getting this: Fatal Error: Class ‘vmLanguage’…
I created this little Joomla! plugin when I had a request to lock some pages on a client site with a simple and straightforward approach. That meant not using the Joomla! default User permission system, but a simple page protection with a password. They previously were using some .htaccess complex redirections which with time have…
Doing Joomla! upgrades are not always the easiest and quickest things to do. Especially when you have to upgrade for few versions at once. You can encounter different issues, like messed up file systems, missing libraries, corrupted or outdated template overrides, old and abandoned extensions, etc. Recently while doing upgrades I encountered a strange error…
As we showed previously with WordPress, detecting the Joomla! version from its source code is also possible. Although not that straight-forward as WordPress. The best success I had was to use multiple approaches, so if one fails, the code moves to the others. It should be also noted that with some approaches the best you…
As a PHP developer, sometimes you would have to deal with long-running scripts. As you might know, in the php.ini file there is a setting called max_execution_time which by default is set to 30 seconds. Meaning any particular script could only run for 30 seconds before it exits. On some hosts, you can find it…