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Mambots have been renamed as ”Plugins” Mambots were introduced in Mambo and offered possibilities to add plugin logic to your site to mainly for the purpose of manipulating content. In Joomla!, Plugins will now have much broader capabilities than Mambots. Plugins are able to extend functionality at the framework layer Lue lisää

This depends on what you want to achieve. If you are new to Joomla! and have no clue how all fits together, just install the example data. If you don’t like the English example because you – for instance – speak Chinese, then leave it out.

The improved installer can be found under the extensions option. With versions prior to 1.5 you needed to select a specific extensions type when you wanted to install it, with Joomla! 1.5 you just select the extension you want to upload, and click on install. The installer will do all Lue lisää

You indeed can change the menu items type to whatever you want, even after they have been created. If you for instance want to change the blog section of a menu link, jump to the back end and edit the menu item. Push the ”change type” button and select the Lue lisää

In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5 there was a distinctive difference on static and normal content. Both content types are still around, but are not handled as separate items. If you want to create static content, just select ”uncategorized” as section and category and the content is handled as static Lue lisää

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, Devanagari(India), Croatian(Croatia), Magyar (Hungary), Italian, Malay,Norwegian bokmal, Dutch, Portuguese(Brasil), Portugues(Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Svenska, Thai and more are being added. Lue lisää

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. If you don’t know which collation you need, select the ”utf8_general_ci” as most languages use this. The other collations listed Lue lisää

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 into the directory you website points to, fire up your browser and go to the page and the installation will Lue lisää

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 is used, but also php can run on different web-servers like Microsoft IIS. Joomla! also depends on a database, for Lue lisää

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 utf-8 on older databases. Let the installer take care of all settings and there is no need to make any Lue lisää

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 PHP is currently using (this is usually ’apache’). As files normally are created either by the Joomla! application or by Lue lisää

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 check/edit the entries in the locale tag. Note that multiple locale strings can be set and the host will usually Lue lisää