After upgrading K2 of a Joomla website for a major international news agency to the latest version, we encountered the following error when testing the website: Fatal error: Call to undefined method K2ModelItemlist::getCategoryChilds() in /modules/mod_jxtc_k2contentwall/mod_jxtc_k2contentwall.php on line 133 Obviously, the error states that a function that is currently used (called getCategoryChilds) no longer exists in […]

We spent the past weekend working (yes, we work on weekends at itoctopus – in fact, we work all the time!) on two websites (each belonged to a high profile company in the US – one of them had 170,000 pages and the other had over a million pages indexed with Google). Both of these […]

If you have visited the Global Configuration page on a Joomla 2.5 website, then you might have noticed that there are now 2 types of caching: Conservative caching Progressive caching We often get calls from our clients asking us what kind of caching to use – we immediately tell them that they should enable the […]

We are migrating many Joomla websites (from version 1.5.x to the latest 2.5 version) these days and a common problem that we see is that once we finish the migration, and we make the website live, the “Save” button (as well as many button in the Joomla menu) stops working. This is normal – and […]

One of the little used Joomla official extensions out there is the wrapper component. The wrapper component has a very simple job to do: it includes a page from another website (or even from your website) into a page on your Joomla website. For example (this is just an example – yes, we know it’s […]

Usually we write about a recurring Joomla problem immediately – but for some reason we didn’t write about this error before, although we have seen it so many times before. But this afternoon, we got a call from a system administrator at a Fortune 500 company (a well known company making computer processors) saying that […]

Note 1: Validating fields on dynamically duplicated forms is too complex to explain in one post – and that’s why it’s not included here. If you want help on this, then please contact us. Note 2: We are assuming that you do not wish to save the fields in the database – if this is […]

We’re currently migrating a large news website from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 – and we’re facing some weird issues during the migration. For example, while we were able to migrate the articles successfully, clicking on any link (pointing to an article) resulted in the following error: 500 – JHtml: :icon not supported. File not […]

Note 1: If you don’t have RSForm Pro (e.g. you only have the free version of RS Form), then the below will not work for you. Note 2: This post is targeted at intermediate to advanced programmers. A Joomla administrator (unless he’s very technical) will be unable to do the below by himself. We love […]

A client called us today (around noon) and told us that he’s unable to install a Joomla extension on his website. He said that the installer is displaying an error. He gave us the information to his website (username and password of a super administrator) and emailed us the extension that he was trying to […]

One of the requirements on a project that we’re currently working on was to display PDF files on a Joomla website. This might seem very easy – except that the PDF document is stored in the database (instead of the filesystem) and must be displayed on a separate window and not inline. The process was […]

Nearly every day we get the following call from one of our client: “Hi – my Joomla website stopped working all of a sudden – I’m not even able to login to the backend! This is an emergency, can you help?” “Of course we can help!”, we answer, and even though we know the likely […]

A few members of our team at itoctopus are currently working on a highly dynamic eLearning Joomla website that has many components, and each of these component has several views. One of these components was unique in the sense that some of its views had a different layout when the item to be displayed had […]

We’re doing many migrations from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 after people discover (the hard way) that these migrations are not that easy at all! Most of the companies/individuals that we migrate their Joomla websites for have already tried to do the migration themselves by following the (incomplete and broken) guide on Joomla’s official website. […]

We have worked on so many projects (especially Joomla projects) for the past several years – these projects ranged in size from very small projects to large, governmental projects. From time to time, we have a project where the client asks us to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure Agreement) before starting the actual work. In many […]

Many of our clients use RSForm to dynamically generate forms on their Joomla websites. A client who was developing a form (using RSForm) very early in the morning today called us and asked us that he has a presentation this morning and he urgently needs to make a value in a dropdown box in his […]