I am trying to integrate AUP with K2 plugin rules are created and community points are working in back-end but I want to show these point in user profile in front-end. I searched a lot on few related forums but unable to get it up. I also tried installing Next Rank & Combined Module for AUP but none of them is working. Can anyone help me out in this. I am new to Joomla so may be i am unable to set the position or something. Please Help me out.
Current System is:
- AUP - 1.8.1
- K2 - 2.5.7
- Joomla 2.5.6
K2 uses a template system so you need to edit. components/com_k2/templates. However template overrides (see docs link here) are much preferable as they won't be overwritten when there is a k2 update.
For alpha user points however there is an example of k2 integration here. Note this link (but probably any method of integrating k2 and AUP without a plugin) will also require editing the k2 model - which means this would be overwritten in the event of a k2 update. You should bear this in mind if you ever need to update k2!
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I am new to this forum and also new in using joomla. I have a joomla3.4 site where I would like add extra fields to user registration form. I have searched over this for entirely two days now and got few options like
1)Override registration component
2)modifyng and adding new fileds in root/libraries/joomla/user/user.php
3)using extensions
I am not a joomla expert, hence 1st and 2nd option is bit more complicated for me, since it also invloves core files getting rewritten during joomla upgrade.
I am left with the 3rd option, which makes use of other 3rd party extension. I am not sure how does this 3rd party plugins work. Do they automatically insert the extra fileds data into joomla user table or where it will be stored?
I would like to use captcha-recaptcha into the registration form.
Please guide me on some good extensions(freeor paid) that I can use for registration form.
Your help and support is appreciated.
Thanks,
mds2907
In theory you should be able to just enable the plugin "User - Profile" that you already have and select the fields you want added to the form. That's not actually working for me on Joomla 3.4 but that may be due to a different issue with some additional symptoms that I'm debugging (Joomla 3.x - Two factor authentication disabled but still working).
I'm using Joomla 2.5.1 along with K2 2.6.5. I am trying to figure out how to use SEF urls in K2. I have my site with the 'real' folder 'coolmovies'. Joomla controls this folder.
Within K2, I have a category alias='scifi', within which I have an item alias='startrek' and 'startrek' has the item id 42. Currently this url works:
http://mycoolsite.com/coolmovies/42-startrek
I update the SEF settings for K2 to the following:
In theory, this should now work:
http://mycoolsite.com/coolmovies/scifi-startrek
But it doesn't. I've tried all kinds of permutations, but I get nothing but 404 errors.
I've found this link for reference.
http://getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/6472-K2-SEO-issue---Can-it-be-fixed?limit=20&start=40
Any help would be appreciated!
from my experience, it is very difficult to control k2 url's using joomla core SEF. you will probably have to install a 3rd party component.
i eventually installed artioJoomSEF and managed to sort it out.
you can also try aceSEF (http://www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/acesef-joomla-seo-sef-urls), which i find easier to work with.
The construction of your URL is wrong. If your category alias is "scifi" and your article alias is "startrek" the url should be
http://mycoolsite.com/scifi/startrek
I feel fed up with the Joomla K2 extension. This is the most crappy extension I've ever used and I am tired of correcting mistakes and bugs all the time. Even in the K2 forums, most of the threads suddenly and strangely disappeared, leading google results to 404 pages.
I did the most foolish thing on joomla: I installed their extension in joomla 1.6 because I wanted to set featured images in every article and joomla didn't have something like that (and then upgraded to 2.5) . So I created a news portal that publishes about 6 articles (or K2 items) every day for a year. So far there are 10 categories, 1000 articles and 200 tags (and 4 users only). There is nothing complicated on the website and all components are used "as they are". I haven't even used K2 extra fields etc.
I desperately want to transfer all items, categories, tags and images from K2 to Joomla articles. Then I will upgrade to the new Joomla 3.0. If I had a choice, I would transfer all data to wordpress. I have no money to hire an experienced developer and I have advanced programming knowledge but I am not an expert. I can try to copy data from one column to another but I would really appreciate the opinion of a developer with a "strong" knowledge.
On Joomla's forums it says that:
K2 articles are stored in the table jos_k2_items. Use a sql query to
copy them to jos_content.
INSERT INTO ###_content (title, alias, catid, published, introtext, fulltext)
SELECT title, alias, catid, published, introtext, fulltext
FROM ###_k2_items ;
This was posted about Joomla 1.5 Check the new table structure and make the necessary changes.
I'm not sure are you still looking for the answer, but maybe others do.
In case you want to move your K2 to WordPress, there's a plugin at the WordPress plugin directory for an automated migration. It supports the import of different type of content including categories, tags, menus and other, so it might answer your request.
The quick guide to the process includes the following steps -
You install the plugin on your WP website
Create the account at the service
Download the extension and install it at your K2 website
Choose the entities you want to migrate
Try the trial migration (it migrates 10 posts)
If you like it you can try the full migration (it's not free)
You may refer to this for more info, plus, this service is also represented in WordPress Codex.
Hope it helps.
Hi after searching a lot I,m posting this question. When trying to add a tag in k2 item in joomla 2.5 backend, nothing happens. I have pressed enter and also tried with comma. I have tried with updating k2 latest version. But still same problem. I,m using ja_wall template, joomla 2.5. Also I,m getting this error after k2 upgrade
Model class cpanelModelCpanel not found in file
Can anyone help please.
This was a issue that was fixed in K2 v2.6.1. Alternatively delete the file ROOT/administrator/components/com_k2/models/cpanel.php. Which was effectively what the update did.
Also see this forum post on k2 for more info on the issue!!
I have the right solution. Go to phpMyadmin then to jos_k2_tags_xref and edit the structure. Set the ID as a Primary, (click on it) then go to edit the id row. Set "Default" as "None" or "Not Set" (I don't know how it is called in english but anyway it's the first possible selection) then check the "A_I" field (AUTO_INCREMENT) and then save. Now it should work :)
The problem was, ID of new k2 tags was 0 due to a wrong migration of k2 tables :)
This can also used to fix the same error when creating/copying/deleting k2 items if this cause problems.
I am developing a website where I need to create two user types. One is "member" and the other is "merchant". Both have different areas to be accessed. I am really confused on how can I achieve this.
Also I am trying to add my custom fields of First name and Password in the default Joomla registration form. As soon as I add a new TR with field first name the registration form stops working.
Can you guys help me in doing this?
If you have some troubles with default Joomla registrtion, you could use Community Builder. It is pretty easy to add fields to users profile and users registration. To separate members and merchants you could add field to the registration form called for example Account type. And then according to its value assign new user as registered(members) or author(merchant).
First, adding user types in 1.5 is not going to accomplish the access requirements you have described. You would need to install an access control component to control different user types accessing different content.
Next, Joomla 1.5 is nearing end of life, April 2012 to be exact. Version 1.7.x released last week so you should very seriously consider moving the site to the latest version. An added bonus is that Joomla 1.7.x has built in access control levels that would accomplish what you are trying to do.
Regarding different access levels best thing to do would be upgrade to Joomla 1.6/1.7 It has this functionality built in. It may be possible to achieve this in 1.5 with third party components, but I don't have any experience with this.
Regarding custom registration fields, again, if you upgrade to 1.6/1.7 it has User - Profile plugin which allows to add additional fields to your registration form.
In 1.5 you can use third party components such as ExtendedReg (commercial).
Or alternately edit core files: http://www.mysysadmintips.com/index.php/web/100