Recently i tested it for a client for the first time and i am really impressed and as usual over the coming weeks, a lot would be written up on phpmotion free video script on this blog.

Please read an extract from the site below.

“PHPmotion Media Sharing CMS – PHPmotion is a free video sharing software that also has support for other types of media such as audio/mp3 sharing. The Content Managent System or (media cms application) will allow you to create and run your very own Video Sharing website, Music Sharing Site, Picture Sharing Site. With very little knowledge required you can now have a website just like youtube.com , dailymotion.com, veoh, hi5 and best of all, its 100% free to download and use.”

Free Video Script

Another very important note to take is that even if you use the same password for your WHM and cpanel login, it will always log you in as a WHM user and you would not be able to access your database using PHPMYADMIN, in order to avoid this situation please make sure the two passwords are not the same.

Problem: Please see a list of problems that you may be experiencing with joomla server overload:

1. My site loads too slowly

2.It gives you an error page when it loads

3. I’m regularly switched off by my host and i have been asked to turn on my cache before my site would be put back online

4. My site loads into a white dis organized page (first check that you are not importing articles from a microsoft word)

5. I have been warned by my host that my site is using too much resources.

Solutions:

1. I would recommend that you get rid of some un-necessary modules you dont need and delete them entirely from the site and server as these may be calling up some database queries even if they are disabled ( A case of bad programming).

2. Another thing is to go to your hosting provider and check if you need to move to a bigger server space either a VPS or Dedicated server, i know most hosting companies would like to push you to do this but make sure you are seeking the best advice. Check your Bandwidth limit used up monthly and your remaining disk space and then determine if you will really heed their advice and try to get a second and third opinion from an expert in the related field, you can do this by simply visiting hosting forums online and asking questions. Most forum members are usually very helpful and would offer you the best and truthful advice they can give.

3. If your case is the case where you are using up too much resources, please take note, if you are on a shared hosting or VPS, please tell your hosting provider to  help you delete your trash bin, usually you would not have access to this trash bin , you may think you have deleted all your trash from cpanel admin but really that is not the case. A helpful hosting admin was able to dig around the problem and found that my client had 18 GB worth of trash not deleted. Once this was done, the site’s speed was up again and there was little issue with resource. so it is really advisable to let your host make sure all the trash has been deleted.

Thanks and watch out for more update.

Well just to cut the long story short, if you find yourself in our shoes and would like to move to Drupal, migrating to drupal from joomla is as easy as can be, it takes just few minutes depending on your database size.

To do this please follow this link  here and if you have any more problems please let us know. I decided to post this here because a lot of discussions may confuse people on the best approach but i find this approach to be the best so far.

Hope this helps out!

Recently after i installed Dolphin 7 on a shared hosting, a lot of bugs came up and i tried my best to solve the ones i can , the major bugs were video and sound not loading, email not being sent out even after configuring a cron job very well etc .

Anyway after talking to my hosting company hostgator (highly recommended) , i was told that Dolphin 7 cannot run on a shared hosting but would need a dedicated server. Please read the extract here from the hostgator site.

Normally you will get a code like this to display module ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” />’,  to get it to display module titles just replace it with this one ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” style=”xhtml” /> ‘

Notice that the only thing added there is only ‘style=”xhtml” ‘

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.

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!

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.

SOLUTION: After editing your file and purging the cached page from the admin, if you still cannot see your changes, you may consider clicking on the Styles menu at the top > and then when it opens look in the left panel and click on themes > then you will see a list of the templates and the one you are using. > Click on”Refresh link” next to it and then go to board index again.

Refresh your page again and the changes should be made by now. If you are still having problems, delete your browsing history from your browser, refresh your page and you should be okay.