Contact Enhanced for Joomla! 4.x has been completely rewritten in order to take advantage of all Joomla! 4 has to offer. We also changed some things around in order to make it easier for our users.
Contact Enhanced for Joomla! 4.x has been completely rewritten in order to take advantage of all Joomla! 4 has to offer. We also changed some things around in order to make it easier for our users.
Migrating Contact Enhanced from Joomla 1.5 to any newer version
If you are migrating from a Joomla 1.5 version you will need to proceed with a manual migration:
In order to achieve this you will need a little experience with PHPMyAdmin and SQL;
First of all you will need to create a full database backup, just for safety reasons, then perform these steps:
1. In PHPMyAdmin:
a) Select your Joomla 1.5 database, then select the "Export" option;
b) Select the tables below to export (#__ stands for the Joomla 1.5 database prefix for your installation, usually jos_):
#__contact_enhanced_details
#__contact_enhanced_cv
#__contact_enhanced_cf
#__contact_enhanced_messages
#__contact_enhanced_message_fields
c) Select the Format to SQL;
d) Export the selected tables;
2. In the exported SQL file or SQL content, find out which database prefix you used for the new installation, usually j25_ or some random characters, then replace your old Joomla 1.5 prefix for the the new one;
3. In PHPMyAdmin, select the database for the new version (if a different database), then run the query (with the changed prefix);
4. In the migrated site install Contact Enhanced 2.5 and it will perform all other migration tasks;
In this situation (manual upgrade), only the Categories will not be imported, so you will have to manually create them and re-configure Contacts and Custom Fields. You will be able to use the Batch features to re-configure, so it should not be a hard task.
Translate Contact Enhanced Form Validation errors for Joomla 3.0 and newer is a very simple task, however it might be a bit more complicated for Joomla 2.5 users. Please continue reading...
Contact Enhanced tries to inherit most of your template's styling, however some templates have HTML override for Joomla core components and/or style your core components differently. In these cases sometimes your custom field's borders will disappear. When this happens you will have to add the line below to the CE's CSS file:
If using Joomla 2.5 and newer, create a CSS Form Field type and add the CSS rule below:
.ce-container .inputbox{border:1px inset !important}
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Though PHP presents a very versatile and user friendly interface for handling file uploads, the default installation is not geared for working with files in excess of 2 Mega Bytes. This article will help you configure your PHP engine for handling such large file transfers.
All the configuration settings for your PHP installation are contained in the php.ini file. Sometimes these setting might be overridden by directives in apache .htaccess files or even with in the scripts themselves. However you cannot over ride some of the settings that effect file uploads with .htaccess directives in this way. So let's just concentrate on the ini file. If you do not have access to your PHP configuration file might have to contact your web hoosting service provider.
To find the location of your php.ini file and the current values for the following settings that we need to modify, please go to:
- Select Help → System Info from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then select the PHP Information tab.
- Select Site → Site information from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then select the PHP Information tab.
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Not receiving your mail? It is usually related to mail server misconfiguration or security rules; Here are a few common problems to check:
Our extensions use Joomla framework and configuration to send emails and some mail servers will not work correctly with Sendmail or PHP Mailer because of the DMARC policy mentioned above. Therefore these servers require that unauthenticated emails must be sent from or to an email address @your-domain.com, or do not allow unauthenticated emails. It seems to be your case, specially if only the copy message is sent.
We always recommend to set the mailer to SMTP in the Joomla Global Configuration under the Server tab. This will avoid many mail problems, including your contact message be marked as SPAM.
Go to Global Configuration and set these options below accordingly to your server. If you are unsure how to do it, please contact your web hosting provider and he will be able to give you this information:
Mailer: SMTP Server
SMTP Authentication:
SMTP Security:
SMTP Port:
SMTP Username:
SMTP Password:
SMTP Host:
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Change the permitions of the [Joomla]/tmp/ folder:
Change the memory_limit:
phpinfo()
PHP function to find it. You can find this info at Help -> System Info from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, under the PHP Innformation tab; memory_limit = 32M ; #Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (32MB)
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Well,this can happen due to following reasons;
Here are the steps to solve it:
As a strategy to enhance the User Experience 1 our Joomla extensions uses Joomla default messaging system. Most comercial and free Joomla templates have this capability. My template's message look like this:
If your template does not have this option, all you have to do is add a small piece of code to your template and a little css to your main css file (in case it does not have it).
Add the following code to your template where you want all system messages to be displayed, usually inside the same div that displays the content:
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Contact Enhanced requires PHP5 in order to work!
Please read the news published on the PHP.net website:
On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 5 included new features such as improved support for object-oriented programming, the PHP Data Objects extension (which defines a lightweight and consistent interface for accessing databases), and numerous performance enhancements.The most recent update released by The PHP Group is for the older PHP version 4 code branch. As of August, 2008 this branch is up to version 4.4.9. PHP 4 is no longer under development nor will any security updates be released.
Therefore we advise you to update your php version.
In order to check which version you are using, please select
Help → System Info from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then you should see the PHP version under the PHP Information tab.
Site → System Information from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then you should see the PHP version under the PHP Information tab.
Some Ajax/JSON related features also require PHP 5.2 or newer.
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If you have a component (extension) that for some reason does generate Notices, then you can safely turn off this in Joomla Configuration.
Notices are not real errors, they are merley informations for developer in order to help them either improve the performance or to avoid some bugs due to some unitialized variables. If there are notices in our extensions, please let us know. We will work to eliminate them!
There is no real need for a joomla running website to have notices turned on, but some hosings have this as a default.
To turn notices on, follow the following steps...
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