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I get the error Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in components/com_fireboard/template/default/view.php on line 509 and Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in components/com_fireboard/template/default/view.php on line 1037 after I’ve upgraded to PHP 5.3 within my Fireboard Joomla! component when viewing a forum entry. NOTE: The following versions of Joomla! and Fireboard I had installed when this error occured. Joomla! Version 1.5.22 Fireboard Version 1.0.4 Please view my answer for what I did in order to resolve this issue ...

In the Joomla! 1.5 Administration Panel click on Extensions->Plugin Manager Locate the Editor - TinyMCE plugin and open the properties. Under Plugin Parameters locate Template CSS classes and set it to no Save the change and the black background should disappear.

I’ve installed VirtueMart on one of my websites, when I opened the VirtueMart Control Panel in my Joomla! Administration Panel I noticed that when the view is set to Simple Layout all the tabs “Accordion Menu” are extended and I get the following JavaScript error: Ext not defined and most functionality that includes JavaScript is disabled. When I click on Extended Layout the problem is solved. Solution: To solve this problem we need to disable the usefetchscript function that VirtueMart uses ...

Make sure the acymailing_module.js is present within the /media/com_acymailing/js/ directory <script type="text/javascript" src="/media/com_acymailing/js/acymailing_module.js"></script> This file can be optained within the com_acymailing zip file within /media/js simply copy it from there to /media/com_acymailing/js/

Joomla! 1.0 In order to apply this solution, you need to have modifying access to your Joomla! 1.0 core files Locate the following file within your Joomla! installation and open it in a text editor. FILE: /administrator/components/com_media/admin.media.php Round about lines 170 and 200 you’ll find something like: 'bmp', 'csv', 'doc', 'epg', 'gif', 'ico', 'jpg', 'odg', 'odp', 'ods', 'odt', 'pdf', 'png', Append the additional file extension that you wish to be able for uploading via Media Manager eg ‘ogg’ ...

This error happens because the version of Joomla! you are running is not compatible with PHP 5.3.0 . You could get this error for the reason being that your host upgraded to PHP 5.3.0 A quick solution will be is to open the file modules/mod_mainmenu/helper.php in your root folder and change the following line from function buildXML(&$params) to function buildXML($params) at the top of helper.php The best solution will be to upgrade your Joomla! installation to the latest Joomla! release

I’ve noticed this error when I installed VirtueMart and in the checkout process where it asks if you are a returning visitor or new user I noticed that the radio buttons did not work. This error occurs since Joomla! uses mootools and I used JQuery in my template. Thus causing the two to conflict since both mootools and JQuery make use of the $-function. Please check the answer to see how you will be able to solve this issue. ...

The error is similar to the below and it has to do with the readfile php function. Error: invalid regular expression flag v Source File: http://joomla/components/com_virtuemart/fetchscript.php?gzip=0&subdir[0]=/themes/default&file[0]=theme.js&subdir[1]=/js&file[1]=functions.js&subdir[2]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[2]=virtuemart_menu.js&subdir[3]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[3]=nifty.js&subdir[4]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[4]=fat.js&subdir[5]=/js/extjs2&file[5]=yui-utilities.js&subdir[6]=/js/extjs2&file[6]=ext-yui-adapter.js&subdir[7]=/js/extjs2&file[7]=ext-all.js This happens most probably because the System Administrator has disabled the readmore function within the php.ini file on the server. It’s the easiest to get it enabled, but most of the time it’s impossible since it has been disabled for security reasons. But luckily there are some work arounds. ...

In your code add the following code to activate the tooltip behavior JHTML::_('behavior.tooltip'); This only needs to be added once per file. A good place to put it is just underneath the defined(’_JEXEC’) or die(‘Restricted access’); at the top of the page. The tooltip behavior will put the following code automatically in the head section of your HTML page <script type="text/javascript"> window.addEvent('domready', function(){ var JTooltips = new Tips($$('.hasTip'), { maxTitleChars: 50, fixed: false}); }); </script> Now where ever you want the tooltip to appear, place the following code in your page. ...

Open your template file where you would like to place the module position Add the following code to the template file <?php if ($this->countModules('customPosition')) : ?> <div id="customPosition" > <jdoc:include type="modules" name="customPosition" style="xhtml" /> </div> <?php endif; ?> NOTE: customPosition is the name/identifier for the new module position Now you need to tell Joomla! which module positions are available within the template, to do this open the templateDetails.xml file within the root folder of your template and add the following code within the namespace ...