Sydney JUG 14/02/2012Presented by Tim Plummer – Tweet @bfsurvey

Joomla Release Dates

Joomla Version Release Type Release Date End of Life

Joomla 1.0 Long Term Sep-05 Jul-09

Joomla 1.5 Long Term Jan-08 Apr-12

Joomla 1.6 Short Term Jan-11 Aug-11

Joomla 1.7 Short Term Jul-11 Feb-12

Joomla 2.5 Long Term Jan-12 Aug-13

Joomla 3.0 Short Term Jul-12 Feb-13

Joomla 3.1 Short Term Jan-13 Aug-13

Joomla 3.5 Long Term Jul-13 Feb-15

Let’s take a look at what’s new

• The base of the CMS is the Joomla Platform has been updated to version 11.3

• New image manipulation class JImage• Generation of HTML tables with the JGrid class• New version of MooTools (1.4)

Multi Database support

SQL Server

• Load driver in php.ini – actual dll will depend on php version and whether your server supports non-thread-safe

or thread-safe

• extension=php_sqlsrv_53_ts_vc9.dll• Need to restart PHP for change to take effect• phpinfo should show sqlsrv section

Step 2 shows which databases are available on your server

Database Type

Set Site Offline during install

Set Site Offline Image

Smart Search (finder)

• Smart Search is destined to be the replacement for com_search

• Disabled by default• Extensions->plugin manager– Enable Conent - Smart Search plugin

Smart Search (cont.)

• Assign a module position to your smart search module (extensions->module manager)

• And choose which pages it should appear on

Smart Search (cont.)

• It does smart things like suggest what you should be searching for if you do a typo

Joomla Update Notification

CAPTCHA in core

• Choose ReCaptcha in your global config

Setting up ReCAPTCHA

• Sign up (free) for your public and private key

Setting up ReCAPTCHA

• Extensions->plug-in manager• Enter your public and private key in the

Captcha – ReCaptcha plugin

Setting up ReCAPTCHA

• CAPTCHA will now appear on your contact forms

Add notes to menu item

• Allows you to write a short note to describe what this menu is for

Filter who’s online module

• Extensions->module manager– Who's Online

Subcategory filtering

Language overrides manager

Images and URL fields to create simple standardized layouts

Images and URL fields in articles

Intro image

Full article image

Native ZIP support checked during install

New user notification email sent to admin

• Users->user manager

User status module improved

User Notes

• Can now add notes to each user account

Example of using User Notes

User Notes

Custom Blacklist text filter

Text filters has moved from article options to global config

Database version check

• Check that your database schema version is up to date

Debug Plugin reloaded

Menu manager linked to module manager

• When you create a new menu, if there is no module to display it yet, there is now a link to create one.

New language code plugin to improve SEO

• Allows search engines to see the language and country code they expect in cases where the Joomla language pack uses a different code.

Where’s my version number?

Joomla Version shown in System Information

Joomla version module

Other improvements

• Beez core template comes with mobile enhancements

• Ability to indicate a default language for News Feeds

• Right to Left language direction setting for New Feeds

• Improvements for batch processing

Should I upgrade to 2.5?

• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-feb-2012/item/676-Help-With-1-7-Out-and-2-5-Just-In,-What-Should-I-Do-Upgrade-or-Upgrade-me-not

• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Aug-2011/item/530-Nine-Questions-When-Preparing-Clients-for-Joomla-1-8

Should I upgrade to 2.5?

I’m currently using

Should I upgrade

Joomla 1.6 YES

Joomla 1.7 YES

Joomla 1.5 Eventually YES, but no rush

Joomla 1.0 LOL, why bother?

• I’ll make it easy, here is my 2 cents

So how do I upgrade?

Do a full site backup first!

• www.akeebabackup.com

How to upgrade from J1.7

Alternate upgrade method using Admin Tools

• Use Admin Tools instead– http://www.akeebabackup.com/

How do I upgrade from Joomla 1.5?

• Get new versions of all your extensions• Get a new site template• Take a full backup• Use either JUpgrade (free) or SP Upgrade

(commercial) or J2XML Importer (free)

How do I upgrade from Joomla 1.5?

• Tutorials– http://

www.jomsocial.com/blog/migrating-joomla-15-to-joomla-25-a-guided-tutorial.html

– http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/upgrade-joomla-16-to-25/

Upgrade Problems

Upgrade problems – Admin icons

Clear your browser cache to fix

I’m missing the new modules and plugins

• Extensions->extension manager->discover

I’m missing new database tables

• Extensions->extension manager->database

Article into image not showing

• You probably have a template overrides that needs to be updated

• /templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/article/default.php

• Compare to /components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php

and see what is missing• Another one

/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php

Disappearing articles after 2.5 upgrade

• articles that a specific user wrote are not being published. They still show up in the backend but not in the frontend.

• Cause: If you have a user linked to a contact that is unpublished, the articles written by this user don't show up in the front.

• The solution would be to publish the contact or to completely remove them, including empty the trash.

Questions?

• Follow Tim on twitter @bfsurvey

References

• http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5403-joomla-250-released.html

• http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5410-joomla-251-released.html

• http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5406-joomla-25-released.html

• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Jan-2012/item/654-What-s-new-in-Joomla-2-5

• http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla25/• http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Version_2.5.0_FAQ• http://

brian.teeman.net/joomla-1.7/upgrading-to-joomla-2.5-some-warnings.html