Time to say goodbye to Joomla 1.0.x

On 13 October 2008, Joomla Developer Team officially announced that they will stop supporting Joomla 1.0.x from 22 July 2009.

For our customers who are using Joomla 1.0.x version, please do not panic when you hear this news. Because, the Joomla developer team will still be supporting and releasing security updates of 1.0.x version until 22 July 2009. Since the current 1.0.x is quite stable and you are getting technical support from us, we can say that you are safe.

But we would like to recommend upgrading of your Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5 in near future. We will provide the quotation for the upgrading if you want to upgrade. The cost of upgrading will vary; it will be based on which components and modules you are using.

If we see the roadmap of Joomla, 1.6 will be quite exciting release. It will come with improved ACL (Account Control List) as currently Joomla ACL is very basic.

We can’t wait to get Joomla 1.6….

Upgrading to Joomla 1.5

We have been discussing on when we should start using Joomla 1.5. Because we are using some popular components like Virtue Mart, media galleries, event calendars and our own components which are not ready to use with Joomla 1.5 as native component.

Now we made our decision on WHEN and now start taking action on HOW we should change to Joomla 1.5.

Now we are still using Joomla 1.015 version for our projects and we will start using Joomla 1.5 from 1st January 2009. To be able to use Joomla 1.5 as our CMS, we will need to modify our templates, components, module and plug-in. We only have over 2 months to meet that target.

We will set the priority to change. Most popular items will get higher priority to change first.

We start changing and hope we will meet the target by end of the year, 2008.

Cheers!

Fireboard's user list display bug

Fireboard is a very nice Joomla Forum component. I installed that component in many community websites. I didn’t know that there is a bug in user list display until a client report me that the display is in mess if they view user list of the forum.

I tried to find solution to solve that problem in Google but I didn't find any. When I view the code generated by that user list page, I found some extra HTML tag.

The solution I found was removing the extra table tag from following file
/components/com_fireboard/template/default/plugin/userlist/userlist.php

Edit the file and find around line number 625.

Remove 4 line (4 table closing tags) as below picture:



Hope this will help you if you are facing same problem with mine.