As we all know, there’s a caching functionality on Joomla that is activated on most websites. This caching speeds up the website, while ensuring that the freshness of the content is not affected, because Joomla’s default caching only caches php code, and not the content itself. A question on many Joomla website owners is “When […]

Note: This post applies to Joomla 1.5. If you have Joomla 1.6, then please contact us, as the procedure is different. Nearly every day we are contacted by one or more of our customers who tell us the following: I have tried to add Javascript code to my website, but it doesn’t work. It seems […]

While Joomla is a very poweful CMS, sometimes it feels as if it lacks some basic features. For example, many of our customers ask us what sort of settings they should change in order to automatically notify their registered users (subscribers) of a new article that is posted on their Joomla website. Our answer is […]

If you stumbled across this article because you need emergency help for your Joomla website, then please contact us at our emergency number which is 514 961 2804 (for US callers) or +1 514 961 2804 (for international callers). Update January 2018: Please note that the Joomla emergency service is now strictly available for enterprise […]

Everyone loves favicons, they imply professionalism, seriousness, and continuity of the website and the underlying business (Note: itoctopus still doesn’t have a favicon because we are still working on our corporate identity). As such, a lot of our Joomla customers want to know the procedure for adding a favorite icon (aka favicon) to their website. […]

We had an interesting project yesterday, which consisted of customizing Docman (a Joomla extension that allows you to distribute documents either for free or for a fee on your website) in order to accept subscriptions. Here’s what the client wanted: – If the document is priced at 0, then the registered member can download it […]

First we apologize that this post is very technical, but this is a recurring issue and we thought we’d share the solution with others that may be experiencing this problem. The easiest way to retrieve the information of the current logged in user in Joomla is the following: $user =& JFactory::getUser(); But there is a […]

Often, we receive requests for adding new attributes (or fields) to the user registration form in Joomla. Such attributes are usually specific to our client’s industry. A very recent example is a client of ours who runs a small magazine, and wanted to add the following 2 fields: “Registered” (which is of type boolean) and […]