When I write in the wysiwyg editor then the data in the editor end up somewhere and then posted in front end. My question is where do those data end up? How do I access them via filezilla? What is the directory?
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Andreas Achilleos
Any data that gets saved, is always saved to the database. In this case (assuming you are using the default Joomla article manager), the data/articles (includes your code in the article) get saved to the database table called #__content. #__ is the prefix for all tables so the actual table name may look something like jos_content
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I am using the Turbogears-2.3 framework and now I know how to upload the files in the database using the tgext.datahelpers. I understand that the file gets uploaded in the disk and in the database the metadata gets stored in the JSON format. Now I want to query the database and wanted that the link to get generated in the file collumn so if someone clicks on it then the file can get downloaded. However when I tried to query the database and viewed the table, in the file column I get text like trai.model.model.F_AttachedFile object at 0xa7325bac (trai is the name of the project).
When I iterated through the table and printed the value of the element in the javascript console, the same thing is getting printed. Could anyone please tell me how to generate the downloadable link from this.
Thank you very much
Not sure that I full understood your question, a little snippet of code might have helped understanding the context, but if I guessed correctly you are trying to the the url of a tgext.datahelpers uploaded file.
In such case see https://bitbucket.org/axant/tgext.datahelpers#rst-header-attachments each attachment Column provides an url property, so you can get the URL from there.
There is also an example that saves and Document model with a file field and queries it back printing the url.
I am working on a Joomla 3.2.1 site and the client, without thinking, entered in the same alias for all articles, instead of letting the system use the article title. So now if I want to turn on SEF URL's we are going to have 404 issues in the future.
I want to resave or regenerate all article aliases at once (batch).
Is there a way to do it? in the MYSQL DB maybe?
Thank you in advance.
$alias = JApplication::stringURLSafe($article->title);
Joomla will generate the alias when saving the article. I am not aware of any batch joomla feature to regenerate all the aliases and I would also be interested to know about this.
If no other batch solution exists, you should do manually the updates to these fields.
In the database, you could run update queries for all your articles, but you must type each update query one by one.
The update query for a single row would look like:
UPDATE jos_content
SET alias='my-new-alias-name'
WHERE id='{id-of-the-article}'
For multiple rows at once, you could do something like this:
UPDATE jos_content
SET alias = CASE id
WHEN 1 THEN 'alias1'
WHEN 2 THEN 'alias2'
WHEN 3 THEN 'alias3'
END
WHERE id IN (1,2,3)
What you could do is delete the alias data from all of your articles in the database using mysql. Then make a tag, like "fixalias." Using the batch processing feature tag all of the articles with that tag.
This will run store() for all of your articles and automatically generate the aliases. Then delete the tag from the tag manager.you ar
A similar strategy would involve also deleting all the aliases but batch moving (don't copy) your articles to a temporary category and then moving them back.
I'm currently developing my first MVC component for Joomla 3.x. All in all I'm bit struggling with language/translation issues in database.
My problem is that I need to store translated content of user generated content which comes from the backend. For example someone enters a new item in German (stored in database) and needs a translation in another language. How to accomplish that in Joomla? I don't like to generate a new item for every different language when the rest is all the same.
I thought about a table "item" and a table "item_language" with that structure (strongly simplified for viewing purposes):
item
id PRIMARY INT
price DOUBLE(4,2)
item_language
itemid PRIMARY INT
language PRIMARY CHAR(5)
name VARCHAR(50)
In item_language I would like to store the different translated versions. In the language field there would be the region code (eg. de-DE) to identify the language.
My problems:
How to display the different (translated) versions in backend?
Is this the right database model?
Any help is appreciated!
You have really found yourself a nice task for a first component in Joomla!
A rather generalist answer:
The database model seems right. Alternatively you could encode in JSON the language data, but this could make later query operations potentially difficult. This way you will only have one table to work with.
As far as I know (if you are using JModel / JTable to manipulate the data) can't do this directly, as JTable is really only designed to manipulate single tables.
What you can do:
For editing: figure a way to represent this graphically ( for your users to see and edit this one to many relationship) and to post this data (language texts as an array) to JModel. In the model you can maintain the desired relationships and save the data using JTable.
Viewing (without editing) shouldn't be an issue, it would be a simple JOIN.
If you are willing to create a basic component on github, I might even give you a hand with JModel / JTable.
I found a way to deal with the things I needed.
Thanks Valentin Despa for guiding me in the right direction :-).
Here the whole procedure (simplified - validations and exact steps omitted):
Define the form fields in the models/forms/site.xml as normal.
In views/site/tmpl/edit.php add self coded Javascript (based on jQuery) to deal with the fields which have content in multiple languages stored as JSON in database.
Clone the original form element and modify the needed attributes (id, name, ...) to display a special version just for the defined languages. As content - extract the JSON for the needed language from original field content and display.
Hide the original field with Javascript and append the customized versions to DOM.
Afterwards in tables/site.php I read the dynamically generated content withJInput and build together the original field by generating JSON and saving to database.
It's working like expected.
I am using Joomla 2.5 and want to insert 100 articles without using Joomla's article manager.
How can I achieve this?
This is incomplete. You also would need to add records to the assets table and to make sure that they are properly keyed to the content table and nesting within a category asset as well as the com_content asset. You can put all of the articles in the uncategorised category to handle that however.
Well, if I wanted to add 100 articles as quickly as possible, I would take a backup of the #__content table in the database, open it in Notepad++, add all my articles in and re-upload the table.
If you do this, don't forget to assign each article a different ID.
I'm a beginner using Joomla 1.5. I have a page which shows articles in a blog format. My objective is to show/filter the articles per year (which isn't that many) based on user input. I'm planning to create a module on the right side, showing a dropdown box of the years, and retrieve the results by passing the year parameter as part of the URL
Ex.
http://sample.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=39&Itemid=24&year=2011
What is the best, simplest way of passing and processing additional parameters to com_content via URL? Can I do so using extensions such as K2 and flexicontent? If not, can someone advise me what code to add and where, in com_content? If I have to extend com_content itself, can someone guide me how to or point some useful articles?
Appreciate the help. Thanks
I don't know if K2 or flexicontent offer this option, but com_content appears NOT to have this feature.
I would just build a module, create a query and use the table jos_content, select only the fields that you need (like title) and check the field created to be in the year you need.