Disabling Joomla Template js Files

Hugh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:33:09 +0000

By default, Joomla 1.5 includes the same JavaScript files within any templates it renders (public facing or internal admin). This can be useful, but sometimes you don’t want to have the same js files included in both… public and admin versions of your site. For example, One of the default Joomla included js files is MooTools, a pretty nice OO JavaScript framework. If you wanted to use say Prototype instead of MootTools, you will more than likely run into conflicts with both JavaScript libraries included in your template. Within public facing templates, it is sometimes necessary to disable the Joomla included js files … but how?

I’ve run into this type of conflict specifically between MooTools and Prototype, when using IE 6. Luckily, there is a fairly easy way to disable Joomla included js files from your public facing template. Within your templates index.php (or equivalent), add the following:


$user =& JFactory::getUser();
if ($user->get('guest') == 1) {
  $headData = $this->getHeadData();
  $headData['scripts'] = array();
  $this->setHeadData($headData);
}

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Editing Joomla 1.5 Config via FTP

Hugh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:33:16 +0000

Permission problems attempting to make Joomla 1.5 configuration changes? If you run into errors on the Joomla 1.5 configuration screens describing that the FTP credentials used do not have permission to modify the configuration.php file, you might be using the wrong FTP root dir …

From the server that Joomla is installed on, try to FTP to localhost. After logging in, take note of the root FTP working directory. Make sure that the $ftp_root variable in your Joomla configuration.php file is set to the path from your FTP working directory, to the installed Joomla root directory.

For example, if your Joomla root is /var/www/public/cms/joomla/, and when you FTP into localhost on that server your default FTP working directory is /var/www/public/, make sure you set the $ftp_root value in the Joomla config to be /cms/joomla/.

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Disabling Joomla Template js Files

Editing Joomla 1.5 Config via FTP