Sanjeev Shrestha

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Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for developers all around the world to create powerful add-ons that are called Extensions. An Extension is used to add capabilities to Joomla! that do not exist in the base core code. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available Extensions: Read the rest of this entry »

If you have a VPS or Linux server running Apache the good old fashioned way without fancy control panels, you’ll quickly have to learn some Apache tweaks.

One of the main issues we commonly run into is a non-working .htaccess file.  Apache doesn’t come with .htaccess support automatically turned on.  You’ll have to turn it on in order for .htaccess files to have an effect.  Here’s what you do:

There are two ways,

1. Edit your httpd.conf manually using a text editor like vim, nano, vi, joe whatever you like.
2. Edit your httpd.conf through Webmin

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Elements are of utmost importance in Joomla development. Elements allows you to create custom parameter type that you can use in your metadata files. Metadata files are xml files that are used to provide configuration parameters to your component, module, plugin or even views. Metadata files for your views are used configure menu links that that will use that view.

In this short tutorial, I will tell about creating elements and using it differently on different places. Elements are special files that generally adds value to parameters. For this tutorial, I will create a color element that  can be used in different components, modules, plugins where color selection is done through a color picker. I will use moorainbow as web color picker. Read the rest of this entry »

A small donation can make a big difference to opensource developers who devote few hours a day to help a community of users. I also develop extensions for Joomla and release it for others to use. Joomlaguru.com.np is one of my site that is devoted to help Joomla users. Small or Big, donations matter to opensource projects and developers.

Recently I created a donation module for joomla that collects donations on Joomla sites. This module uses Paypal to collect donations and is simple to setup and you can get it up and running within a minute. This module is free to use and is released under GNU/GPL. You can see live demo of the module at www.joomlaguru.com.np. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently released jQuery plugin for Joomla on joomlaguru.com.np. This is a simple plugin that allows user to use jQuery in Joomla and is based on my tutorial here. This plugin works in two modes and allows user a flexibility to replace or use jquery in conjunction with mootools.  This plugin is released under GNU/GPL and is free as in free beer!

Features

1. Two modes

User can select to replace mootools with jQuery completely or use jQuery in conjunction with mootools. Using jQuery with mootools introduces noConflict features of jQuery and replaces ‘$’ operator with jquery. This allows other libraries to use ‘$’ operator without conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

I have created a google analytics plugin for Joomla. This plugin is simple and inserts google analytics code into joomla pages. This plugin is released under GNU/GPL license. The plugin is free and available from www.joomlaguru.com.np Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Folks,
I feel honoured and glad to announce the launch of new website www.joomlaguru.com.np. This is a beta launch of the website and hence there are more to come in future. Please report bug or request feature you want to be included.
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JCal Pro is a fantastic extension to manage events on Joomla enabled Sites. Last week I used JCal Pro for a project and required some modification. JCal Pro is a great extension but lacks spam protection like CAPTCHA or any thing that stops spam posting. But I needed spam prevention in event posting, So I set out to add a CAPTCHA to the fantastic component. Read the rest of this entry »

I created a twitter module for joomla 1.5 few days back and I am sharing it with you. The module is simple and loads the tweets from the twitter account that is set from the module parameters page. And hence the tweeter account can only set by adminitrator. This module is free to use and is released under GNU/GPL. Read the rest of this entry »

I have recently started working on android SDK and it is the future I say. Android is here to stay for long.  I use eclipse for development and android sdk fits just fine with ADT plugin for Eclipse. But some of us must have faced a error that says “Cannot connect to keystore” while installing the android sdk with eclipse’s install new software feature. The google android page also says this will occur if you are using linux. Read the rest of this entry »