I have to build a News based website but I am not sure whether to use joomla 1.5 or 1.7? I have been using joomla 1.5 for a while and there are many extensions available for it. On the other hand joomla 1.7 has less extensions available at present and I have heard joomla 1.5 support will be stopped by next year. So would you please kindly suggest me which version of joomla should I go for and why?
Thanks in Advance :)
If you are building new, build in 1.7 as 1.5 is soon to be depreciated. While some extensions are only available in 1.5, most everything new is being written for 1.7.
1.7 has a much better ACL model and other improvements that will be useful for you.
Reasons to stay on 1.5 are limited to:
1. I absolutely need a specific module and nothing similar is available in 1.7 (but if you are building for a client, think of the implications down the road for this decision.)
2. I am supporting many sites and reusing resources among them; all my other sites are on 1.5. I have a migration plan to get them to 1.7 (or 2.5), but I want to do it later in an orderly manner.
If you are holding back for any other reason, you are making a mistake.
If you need extensions that are only available for 1.5, I'd use that. But if you can get away with using/making extensions for 1.7, I'd definitely recommend using 1.7. There will be a little bit of learning at first, but it'll make for a much easier upgrade to 1.8, and you may just find some of the new 1.7 features useful.
That's the approach we've been taking recently for our client projects. There's always a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue at first (waiting for extensions to update), but we now find there are very few things stopping us from using 1.7 as a base (although we're comfortable creating our own extensions where needed).
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How i convert my current website of joomla1.5 to joomla2.5
please anyone help me
When i using jUploader it is only allow to convert joomla1.5.18 to 1.7 but i need joomla2.5
Thre is a lot of documentation out there on how to convert Joomla 1.5 sites to Joomla 2.5.
You need to use an extension such as JUpgrade to upgrade your site to 2.5.
Please bare in mine that this will update your database tables and core extensions such as com_content, mod_login etc. This will not upgrade 3rd party extensions that you have found from the Joomla Extensions Directory. You will need to go back to whereever you downloaded these extensions from and see if there is a Joomla 2.5 compatible version of them, and install them, else you'll need to look for an alternative.
Seeing as you have waited all the way till now, you might be best off upgrading again to Joomla 3.x. Even though this it eh short term release, it is the way forward, will save what could be another time consuming upgrade in the future.
Oh and as always recommended, please make sure you take a backup of your site before the upgrade.
Hope this helps
Long time back I used jUpgrade plugin for joomla upgrade.
But now the plugin / component is not in use to upgrade the joomla version from 1.5 to 2.5
Is there any other freeware plugin for migration?
I used following components.
Gavick Pro
Jcomments
jcraweler
jfusion
Joomfish and
k2
Pleas give some suggesstions to upgrade the joomla from 1.5 to 2.5
jUpgrade has been unpublished due to a broken download link, however things have changed on their official website and it can still be downloaded:
http://redcomponent.com/redcomponent/jupgrade
I forgot to mention that jUpgrade does not upgrade your 3rd party extensions such as JEvents. You will have to download the Joomla 2.5 compatible version for each one unfortunately. The same goes for the site template.
I know this is an old question, but things have changed on redComponent again. They now don't have an installer available on the site.
However, if redMigrator (the JUpgrade replacement) doesn't meet your needs (as in my particular case, today), they have put the JUpgrade source on GitHub
https://github.com/fastslack/jUpgrade
Just clone the repo down and then run releases/make_release.sh
http://redcomponent.com/redcomponent/jupgrade
It's still available from the makers website. Just been unpublished on JED for some reason. Keep on using it as before as far as I'm concerned.
There are no other well recognized freeware upgrades just the paid SP Upgrade (note the support on this extension as it is a paid extension is much better however for a generic upgrade stick with jUpgrade). However free upgrades do exist and can be found under this section on JED.
How can I start developing a component for the Joomla 1.5 framework? Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or has a good reference?
I have read the tutorial on the wiki and I didn't understand it well, so if you could point me to another one, that would be great.
I know that ideally I should work with Joomla 2.5 or 3.0 but I am being asked to develop this for an existing website, I can't decide which version to work on.
I think the official tutorials in Joomla! Documentation really do cut it. Give it a try - http://docs.joomla.org/Component_Development
I can't decide which version to work on
I personally would use Joomla 2.5 as it's the long term lease of the Joomla series and has much more documentation and support. Joomla 3.0 is the short term release, therefore is a beta version of 3.5 so to speak.
Seeing as you are using Joomla 1.5 at the moment, you could always upgrade to Joomla 2.5 using JUpgrade which is a free extension. Note that this won't upgrade 3rd party extensions, so you will need to install the Joomla 2.5 compatible versions for each one (providing there is one).
To get you started on a Joomla 2.5 component, have a look at the Joomla 2.5 MVC Documentation. This also provides zip files of a HelloWorld component for you to download at various stages.
You might also be interested in a Component Generator.
Hope this helps.
I have a web application on joomla 1.0.15 with virtumart 1.0.15 and mojoblog beta v0.16 . There are some changes in virtue mart core file and table structure according to my application requirement. I want to upgrade joomla with virtuemart and mojoblog component. Please guide me tell me a proper way to do this. My application a have a lot user information and order records in database. Need your suggestion.
Thanks
You are not going to be able to easily upgrade your site to 1.5. The biggest problem you face is that Mojoblog is not a 1.5 extension and is no longer supported. At a minimum, you will have to find a replacement for that. How you use it will determine which extensions are suitable replacements, but there is almost certainly an extension that will fit your needs. Blog type extensions are plentiful for Joomla 1.5.
In order to migrate from 1.0 to 1.5 you can follow the official Joomla guide - http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable
i want to port my application to CodeIgniter but i am wondering whether i should use their v2.0 or v1.72 (then when they release 2.0, upgrade it).
i have never used a framework before so i don't exactly know what implies when upgrading a framework: what does it mean practically - i just move the folders and it will work? or do i have to change a lot of settings, file structure etc? could someone enlighten me about the upgrade process.
and what would you use: v.1.72 or v2.0?
if i'm using the latest version, is there a good documentation for it somewhere so you can read about how to use the new features: packages, drivers and so on.
thanks
You can read about some of the changes in 2.0 here.
I would image the upgrade process should be straightforward as long as you do not use any features that are different/removed such as plugins. Just take your models, controllers, etc and drop them into the 2.0 framework. Then regression test you whole app, fixing any problems as you see them...
If you are selling this app or making something mission critical then of course v1.7.2 is the best choice. That said I have PyroCMS running on v2.0 and since some of my bug-fixes were merged it seems stable enough.
One should consider time frames for deployment:
If it is one week, then stick to v1.7.2
If it is three months, go with v2
Assuming three months is approximately to time for a release to stabilise?