Recently several people asked me VirtueMart automatic language packs building works.

First of all you must know, that it work only at linux (maybe on mac).

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Joomla 2.5

Introduction

I personally start a new web-site from this build. I gathered several extensions I use at every web-site. So I use the build to install everything together, not one-by-one manually.

I hope this joomla buils can be useful for someone except me, so I publish it.

Install

The build is installed in a way similar to fresh joomla install process. Unpack the archive to the root of the web-site, visit the web-site and fillow the install steps.

NOTE #1:
Though one can set superadmin password when installing, sometime people forget to set their password. So the default access is:
user: admin
pass: joomla

NOTE #2:

Default language is Ukrainian, so don't forget to switch to English at the first login.

What is included?

The Joomla build has except normall joomla the following extensions:

VM Stat (Joomla 1.5+Virtuemart 1.1.x only)

Overview

Module VM Stat allows to show some simple Virtuemart statistics:

• number of products in a category together or without subcategories
• total number of products
• and a little more

Output is fully customizable.

VmKaterina (Joomla 1.5+Virtuemart 1.1.x only)

Overview

Module VmKaterina allows to show other Virtuemart products of the same category or the same manufacturer. There is a bunch of additional settings. You can, for example, choose to show only products of the same manufacturer in the current category, or allover the shop. You can exclude/include categories or products to be show in the module. You can set the module to be shown/hidden at certain category/product pages.

Tips

• You can use http://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/modulesanywhere plugin to place the module at product flypage.
• By default the module will be shown at all joomla pages, not only at VM pages. As it will have nothing to show not at a product flypage, only the title will be shown. There is no core joomla way  to hide the module (you may try to hide the title, but this may leave some free space), if it's empty, but you can istall a perfect http://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager, which enables "hide if empty" option for all modules.

Important! Some people report this approach kills additional images too, even the needed ones. So backup before using the script. If you have a solution, please post it. It will be a good help for others.

With the flow of time Virtuemart 1.1.x aqquires with many redundant images. To clean up unused images in components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product and components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/resized follow the steps below:

While trying to install phing I've been geting such a result:

# pear install phing/phing
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpunit.de
WARNING: "pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager" is deprecated in favor of "pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager2"
Unknown remote channel: pear.pdepend.org
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpmd.org
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpunit.de
Unknown remote channel: pear.docblox-project.org
Did not download optional dependencies: channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit, pecl/Xdebug, pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager, channel://pear.pdepend.org/PHP_Depend, channel://pear.phpmd.org/PHP_PMD, channel://pear.phpunit.de/phpcpd, channel://pear.docblox-project.org/DocBlox, use --alldeps to download automatically
phing/phing requires package "phing/phingdocs" (version >= 2.4.8snapshot20111006230626), installed version is 2.4.6snapshot20110704081620
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit" (version >= 3.4.0)
phing/phing can optionally use package "pecl/Xdebug" (version >= 2.0.5)
phing/phing can optionally use package "pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager" (version >= 1.5.2)
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.pdepend.org/PHP_Depend" (version >= 0.10.0)
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.phpmd.org/PHP_PMD" (version >= 1.1.0)
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.phpunit.de/phpcpd" (version >= 1.3.2)
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.docblox-project.org/DocBlox" (version >= 0.14.0)
No valid packages found
install failed

Task: Load some modules after full page loaded only. Have possibility to periodically reload a module (i.e. a sport matсh scores).

Be able to use either Mootools or jQuery.

Explanation: A web-site has too many modules what causes it to load slow. It would be preferable to load some secondary modules after main content structure  is loaded.

Limitation: Will not work for some moules which use much JS themselves. At least for mod_jreviews_listings.

Example. On time load.

Example. Reloads periodically. Time interval is a default one - 5 seconds.

Example. Reloads periodically. Time interval is set to 10 seconds.

Solution.

After installing a free joomla 1.6 template AS Template 002024 it works not like shown at demo-page. Footer is not shown. As a result, the template javascript shows a popup message at every page load with text: designed by www.asdesigning.com.

But I've not even think of removing copyrights. What is the problems then?