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Hello all, i just can’t explain why i am  so lazy to blog these days, there are so many things to blog about but let’s get down to business right away.

I know many people who run their sites on joomla would like to have a separate login page set up as a menu link as opposed to the normal login form appearing as a module, especially when you are using virtuemart. Well to do this is very simple.

Just login into your joomla admin > click on menu manager and try to set up a menu under the menu section you want > then afterwards choose type to link the menu to a type > choose “user” in the list and then choose “default login layout”  > Just publish your menu and you should be done by now.

Normally this works with virtuemart because by default, virtuemart is linked to joomla user database if you opted to make it the same.

Hello All,

There is no  other excuse for not blogging daily these days other than laziness. I have loads of useful articles to publish but i am sure i would pick up in the coming days.

Now lets get down to business;

Problem: After installing Oscommerce and selecting your default currency, you might find that the prices are rounded up to the nearest highest figure.

ie. if you set item price to £2.99, it rounds up to £3.00. Now, we do not want our customers to see our items as being too expensive.

Solution: Go to your admin > then go to Localization > then click on the default currency > click on edit > set the parameter “Decimal Places : 2″, make sure it is set to 2 decimal places. You can use this to adjust the other currencies also.

Please note that this applies to Oscommerce2 and may be different in Oscommerce3.

Hope this helps out!

Actually i just got back into dolphin community script again after abandoning it for a while, the latest version is dolphin 7 as at the time of this post. Though i am really impressed with all that has been done on the new version but there are still some bugs here and there that needs addressing but all the same it should serve it’s purpose to the full if you know how to work your way around it. One of the reasons i have decided to write more on Dolphin is due to information availability problem associated with it when compared to other community softwares.

For just a quick one, i know it might seem stupid but a lot of people who successfully install dolphin usually wonder how to manipulate the front page and especially to remove the news feed placed in the frontpage after installation.

Solution: After installation , simply log into your admin, then > click on  ”Builders” in the left hand menu > When it loads, click “Page Blocks” >  then select “home Page” > Once it opens , you would see active and inactive Blocks> Just drag “Boonex News” down to the inactive block and you are done. You can also use this system to modify your home page.

When a new template had been uploaded to joomla admin and set as a default, when you try to view the new template, it produces a blank page with “Restricted Access” written on it.  I know this can be a pain as you would be a lost on what the issue and the solution is.

Cause of Problem: This means that you were using a template built for the older version of joomla.

Solution: In this case you would have to log into your joomla admin panel, Go to Extensions on the top menu > Go to Plugin Manager > and then when the list of plugins open up. Look for this plugin “SYSTEM-LEGACY”. Just enable this plugin and then refresh your front page. i think you should be okay then.

Hope this helps!

I would have to be quick here before it skips my memory. Now after installing Jooma VirtueMart and trying to register as a user, you may experience problems where the user registration keeps looping back to the registration form  after you click “send” .

SOLUTION: Simply change the email address when registering as joomla VirtueMart has no error message to tell you that the email is already in the database. Most Admins would tend to use the same  email registered during installation to try out a user account.

This is an extract from a post on how the problem was solved.

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So I finally found that it’s posted clearly here in several threads…For anyone still facing these registration issues…

It’s not a bug that needs fixed, you just have to have your settings correct:

• Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > System: “Allow User Registration” is turned ON
• Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > System: “New User Account Activation” is turned OFF
• Joomla > Extensions > Module Manager: Disable standard Joomla Login
  (*Note: I was also using the YooTheme YooLogin and had to disable it as well)
• VirtueMart > Admin > Configuration: set your “User Registration Type”
  (I was able to use “Normal” and “Silent” without problems)
• *ALSO NOTE* – I had to make sure my Joomla/VM/server email was working properly as well, before the user registration would work. For me that meant going into the Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > Server: and setting my “Mail From” to an email address that was @ the same domain/server as my Joomla/VM site.

My issue was this:  Whenever a new customer would add an item to their cart, then begin the checkout process, they were not able to register and create a new account.  After completing the fields, then clicking “Send Registration” they were shot back to the registration page again.  After changing the above settings (disabling the modules was my big hangup), things are working perfectly.

If anyone still needs more info, this post basically explains things in detail:  
CLICK HERE ”

Hope this helps out!