I'm attempting to make a browser-based emulation of a program menu for user support/self help. I have a good deal of experience using joomla and wordpress.The site would require 6 buttons if you clicked one of the buttons 6 more menu options ending in a screencap or just text of the final program they are accessing. users must be able to edit the names of each button, and add more buttons that link to more pages of buttons that end with jpegs/text list of options. I would like for this to be controlled through a checkbox and a browse option. Is this too big of a project for a PHP first timer? I have experience using drupal, wordpress, and joomla. Can this be done with a CMS? If you can point me in any direction please do. I have virtualbox installed with one vm running a LAMP stack.
Cheers,
Matthew
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For the past 3 years I have been a PHP developer writing and creating websites in a "Vanilla" fashion (no CMS). When I created or altered a site I would write my own html, php, css and js files. I just started a job this week as a web developer at a small company that exclusively uses Drupal7/8 and Wordpress.
I was assigned, what in my mind is a simple task, of creating a landing page with a carousel and a form on it. In my past vanilla life this would take me all of two hours to have it live. This site however was created in Drupal 7 by a developer no longer at the company.
I have been through both Lynda.com courses on Drupal 7&8 development and have a good grasp on the concepts, but still don't know where to even begin.
Is there anyone out there who has come from a similar background of web development outside of a CMS and has since moved into it that can give me some advice on where to begin?
Thanks!
I followed the step in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsLA7n9fknc
and here was the output I got on the page:
here
You should try to install and use drupal contrib modules to create the carousel and the form, for example:
Create a view with Views Slideshow module, you could start following this example:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/modules/views-slideshow/creating-a-slideshow
Use the webform module to create a simple form, please see the following tutorial: https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/webform-module
I'm trying to integrate a web conferencing tool, called Big Blue Button into my drupal website. I have downloaded a php script that will allow integration between my site and the Big Blue Button API.
In the readme, it says 'stick the entire directory into somewhere that can host php'. So the directory includes, for example, 'index.php', 'assets', 'css' and a few other files. So were do I put this and how can I access this Big Blue Button from a new page on my website? In my drupal folder, I have lots of different folders such as 'modules', 'profiles', 'sites' etc.
Can anyone help me to get this working?
Thanks
I would advise you to do it the Drupal way, i.e., create a custom module. If you're developing with Drupal, you may as well learn to do this.
You will find a lot of free Drupal tutorials here:
http://codekarate.com/daily-dose-of-drupal
Creating a single page is fairly easy. You will need to look at hook_menu. Download the examples module and look at the Menu examples go create a simple page.
Create a subfolder in your custom module to hold the Big Blue Button files and try calling your php script from your menu callback function.
If you've never done this sort of thing, it may seem daunting at first, but have a try & you will find out it's not that difficult.
I would first try putting the entire folder on the same level as the Drupal folder, not within.
you need to create a page w/in Drupal and then link to the index.php of the tool.
That's the kind of thing I have done before, though not with this specific tool... in other words, I just used an iframe to pull it in. That or I've just opened it up in another window.
Integrating actually 'within' Drupal would take more and be creating a custom module which, judging from your question is probably more than you want or can do at this moment.
Try pulling it into an iframe... or possibly loading that index.php into a div via jquery using load().....there may be a newer method but have a look.
We have a website containing a page http://www.openehr.org/downloads/modellingtools whose link "Download and Help Pages" in the first table row just goes to more PHP content - the documentation of a tool, in the same visual style as the main website, including top panel, menu and bottom menu.
Ideally this sub-tree of pages for the tool would live in the GitHub repo for that tool (rather than being directly part of the website), and the main website would proxy the content from GitHub - that way we would achieve two goals:
tool doc is maintained by those who work on the tool
but it is visually integrated into the central website.
I've messed around with various Apache proxy & rewrite rules on the main site server to do this, but no luck so far. I can't be the only one who wants to do this, so hopefully there is a known strategy out there.
I have made a site in Joomla. With the template Nano. There was a mobile template as well, which I'm using. (I'm not using Joomla mobile). well.. i have made my site now, and there is a button in the bottom of the site, where i can swap to the desktop version. This is written in English "Switch to desktop version". i want this in danish. Where can i chance this? I have been looking in every php. doc, ini files etc. Can't find it :(
I have chanced the language in Joomla, and it is working fin on the desktop website.
Any suggestion how to solve this?
If you got a mobile you can visit the site here
If it is in a language file, then your best bet is to use the built in Joomla language overrides to find it. In the admin -
In the Extensions menu, click on Language Manager
Click the Overrides link
Click the new Override button
In the search form that appears search for "Switch to desktop version" with Value selected.
If it finds the value in a language file, just click the result and edit in what ever you want.
If it does not find it in a language file, then you will have to look through the template files, it has been hard coded directly in somewhere.
I'm on a current web project, on which there's a working PHPBB3 installation in
(root)/phpbb3
All other files of the page are directly on (root)/ and are manually programmed.
now I have to refactor the whole page with Joomla and want to integrate the PHPBB3 directly into the main page, so that header, menu and footer of the joomla page are still beeing displayed, only the content shall be the PHPBB.
There are no further log in mechansims on my page, so this is not an issue. It's just about an optical integration of the board into the page...is this possible?
If yes, how?
Could you please give me a hint?
greets, poeschlorn
I've done it before. There's a component/application called RokBridge that does basically this. Note that phpBB isn't running exactly "inside" of Joomla, since that would be disadvantages for performance reasons...