Within the installer you will find a wide collection of languages. The installer currently supports the following languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Bengali, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, […]
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The collation option determines the way ordering in the database is done. In languages that use special characters, for instance the German umlaut, the database collation determines the sorting order. […]
What is the purpose of the collation selection in the ...
Installing of Joomla! 1.5 is pretty easy. We assume you have set-up your website, and it is accessible with your browser. Download Joomla! 1.5, unzip it and put the files […]
How do I install Joomla! 1.5?
Joomla! runs on the php pre-processor. Php comes in many flavors, for a lot of operating systems. Beside php you will need a web server. Most of the times Apache […]
What are the requirements to run Joomla! 1.5?
No you don’t. Versions of MySql lower than 4.1 do not have build in utf-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use […]
My MySql database does not support UTF-8. Do I have ...
Yes it can! This is a significant security improvement. The safe mode limits PHP file to be able to perfom actions only on files/folders who’s owner is the same as […]
Can Joomla! 1.5 operate with PHP Safe Mode On?
This is now defined in the language <lang>.xml file in the language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems (dates don’t appear in your language) you might want to […]
What happened to the locale setting?
Well… how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again? Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish? With […]
Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding?
Joomla 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla 1.5 and then populating the new site with the content from the old site. This migration of content is not a one-to-one process and involves conversions and modifications to the content dump.
There are two ways to perform the migration:
How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?
General
In Joomla! 1.5 all user interfaces can be localised. This includes the installation, the administrator interface and the front end site.
The core release of Joomla! 1.5 is shipped with mutliple language choices in the installation but languages for the site and administration interfaces need to be added after installation. (Other than English). Links to such language packs exist below.
How do I localise Joomla! to my language?
Joomla! makes it easy to launch a website of any kind. Whether you want a brochure site or you’re building a large online community, Joomla! allows you to deploy a […]
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With a library of hundreds of free extensions, you can add what you need as your site grows. Don’t wait, look through the Joomla! extensions library today.