Joomla

[salsa]

Now that the original Mambo developer team is taking their Mambo CMS to a new and better direction which is now called Joomla. Will Siteground be moving to Joomla too? And if so, will you be providing exsisting Mambo users on your site an option to migrate to Joomla? Thanks

[a1accom]

Good question. I have been asking it through the support ticketing system. I have been told they will support Joomla as an option once it is ready and it will be available via fantastico for installation.

However, there has been no answer about whether Joomla will install over Mambo. I think it will be a case by case situation depending on the version of Mambo we are using.

[Rene]

I must say thanks to you members, we learn some of the industry news. :) I was wondering do you know when we can expect to see the Joomla 1.0 for download? Once we have the chance to download and test it, we can be more specific about the migration and the support we will provide.

[robbins]

The download is now available. I'm interested in the basic differences betweem Mambo and Joomla. Is this first version of Joomla V1 almost identical to Mabbo V4.5.2? Anyone know the differences? I hope it's all it's cracked up to be!

[Mamboman]

Hi, guess we will have to look carefully at both versions to ascertain that. Can you post the download url here. Thanks! :)

[robbins]

Joomla 1.0 (http://developer.joomla.org/sf/frs/do/viewRelease/projects.joomla/frs.joomla_1_0.joomla_1_0_0)

Haven't downloaded just yet as I'm really happy with Mambo ... but if this is where the core developers went, then it's probably worth it! I'm very interested in feedback. I'm afraid this version may have been slapped together quickly and have some bugs lingering. Time will tell!

[thesigna]

www.joomla.org (http://www.joomla.org) Joomla 1 is rebranded Mambo 4.5.2.3 but a much better version then the version Miro released, many fixed bugs etc. works great! It hasnt been "slapped together" this is the version they have been working on for months on the way to 4.5.3
Guide to upgrading! (http://help.joomla.org/content/view/818/181/)

[robbins]

That's good news! Thanks.

[gwiadmin]

Joomla version 1.0.2 was released today. Stability release only. :) :) :)

I am very anxious to see Joomla added as a(n) regular installtion / upgrade / migration from Mambo option script(s).

Just FYI:

1.0.2 Changelog...

02-Oct-2005 Rey Gigataras
^ Added check to mosCommonHTML::loadOverlib(); function that will stop it from being loaded
twice on a page
# Fixed Content display not honouring Section or Category publish state
# Fixed artf1344 : Link to menu shows wrong menu type
# Fixed artf1189 : Long menu names get truncated, duplicate menus made
# Fixed artf1192 : Unpublished Bots
# Fixed artf1223 : Error with Edit items in categories and sections
# Fixed artf1219 : Joomla Component Module displays Error!
# Fixed artf1183 : Section module: Still "no items to display"
# Fixed artf1241 : Editing content fails with MySQL 5.0.12b
# Fixed artf1306 : modules - parameters of type text not stored correctly

01-Oct-2005 Andy Miller
# Fixed base href in Content Preview for broken images

01-Oct-2005 Johan Janssens
^ Updated TinyMCE editor to version RC 3
# Fixed artf1221 : Unable to Submit Content (still not working post-patch)
# Fixed artf1108 : Tooltips on mouseover causes parameter panel to widen
# Fixed artf1217 : WYSIWYG-Editor and mospagebreak with 2 parameters

01-Oct-2005 Andy Stewart
# Fixed artf1305 - Added a check within mosimage mambot for introtext being hidden
# Fixes artf1343 - Removed xml declaration at top of gpl.html

01-Oct-2005 Arno Zijlstra
^ Changed OSM banner 2 a little to show banner changing

01-Oct-2005 Levis Bisson
# Fixed artf1311 : Banners not showing / returning PHP error
# Fixed artf1319 : Banners not showing in frontend / admin

30-Sep-2005 Andy Miller
# Fixed poor rendering of fieldset with solarflare2
^ Updated solarflare2 template with new colors and logos
^ Moved modules to divs, and shuffled pathway to give more button room
^ Updated favicon and other Joomla! logos for admin
# Fixed alignment of footer in admin for safari/opera

30-Sep-2005 Andy Stewart
+ Updated installation routine to recognise port numbers other than 80
# Fixed artf1293 : added $op=mosGetParam so sendmail is called when running globals.php-off

30-Sep-2005 Rey Gigataras
^ Module Manager `position` dropdown ordering alphabetically
^ Ability to Hide feed title for `New` modules used to display feeds
^ Content Items `New` button sensitive to dropdown filters
# Fixed Seach Module not using Itemid of existng `Seach` component menu item
# Fixed `Link to Menu` problem with Sections menu ordering
# Fixed `Link to Menu` problem with Category = `Content Category`
# Fixed artf1300 : PDF shows Author name despite setting content item

30-Sep-2005 Levis Bisson
+ Added UTF-8 support
# Fixed tooltips empty links
# Fixed artf1265 : url in 'edit-menue-item' of submenues is wrong
# Fixed artf1277 : News Feed Display Bad Accent character

29-Sep-2005 Arno Zijlstra
# Fixed publish/unpublish select check in contacts

29-Sep-2005 Rey Gigataras
# Fixed artf1276 : tiny mce background
# Fixed artf1281 : Bad name of XML file
# Fixed artf1180 : Call-by-reference warning when editing menu
# Fixed artf1188 : includes/vcard.class.php uses short open tags

29-Sep-2005 Levis Bisson
# Fixed artf1274 : Module display bug when using register/forgot password links
# Fixed artf1238 : header("Location: $url")- some servers require an absolute URI

28-Sep-2005 Levis Bisson
# Fixed artf1250 : Order is no use when many pages
# Fixed artf1254 : Unable to delete when count > 1
# Fixed artf1248 : Invalid argument supplied for 3P modules

27-Sep-2005 Arno Zijlstra
# Fixed artf1253 : Apply button image path
# Fixed artf1240 : WITH FIX: banners component - undefined var task
# Fixed artf1242 : Problem with "Who's online"
# Fixed artf1218 : 'Search' does not include weblinks?

25-Sep-2005 Emir Sakic
# Fixed artf1185 : globals.php-off breaks pathway
# Fixed artf1196 : undefined constant categoryid
# Fixed artf1216 : madeyourweb no TAG

24-Sep-2005 Rey Gigataras
^ artf1214 : pastarchives.jpg seems unintuitive.

22-Sep-2005 Rey Gigataras
+ Added Version Information to bottom of joomla_admin template, with link to
'Joomla! 1.0.x Series Information'
# Fixed artf1175 : Create catagory with selection of Section
# Fixed artf1179 : Custom RSS Newsfeed Module has nested

[CreedWorks]

Hello,

First time poster to these forums. Great comments / insights from everyone!!

NOTE: What follows below is a copy of a SUPPORT TICKET request that we sent in this evening. I encourage others to ask this question as well... as from what I'm seeing in the CMS community, there is not a lot of love for using both systems... its either one or the other. Period.

Hope this is of some encouragement or help to you as well... if you haven't seen the article quoted below, you should read it... GREAT quick update to whats going on.

E.
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What is the best channel to reach your management team to get an official statement from your company on the "fork in the road" for the Mambo / Joomla CMS community?

Also, if you haven't seen this article already, you might want to: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Joomla-is-the-New-Mambo/

I'm looking at several development companies... and MOST are jumping ships from Mambo, stating that THEIR products / services (templates, etc.) will only work on the LAST version of mambo before this split (4.5.2.3) and Joomla 1+

I hope you can see how important this is to clients like myself, that came to your company through learning about Mambo to begin with.

I appreciate your assistance in this very important request.

Thanks again,

Errin.

[Guns]

I am a complete newbie to CMS and I asked the support team to install joomla for me and add the phpshop component at the same time.
Whilst I have had several issues with the installation (all bugs in the software) the support team here has excelled every time I have made a request for assistance.

Just so you know, there are now stable releases of both Joomla and mambo_phpshop available from their respective websites.
Once I get the bugs ironed out I am certain this was the righ direction to go.

Keep up the good work support team :o)

Thanks

Guns

[mdfrancois]

I would like to have the option to migrate to Joomla, as this is where all of the development effort is taking place in the Open Source community. Many of the add ons I use (like the Gallery2 Component Add On) are already moved to Joomla. Also, the new/first release has all of the work that was happening for Mambo.

Perhaps you can contact someone at Joomla to see about the switch?

Joomla took a bunch of awards just recently.

[torquayf]

Firstly thanks Creedworks for that link to Devshed which gives the background on the split. As far as migrating from Mambo to Joomla I think I posted elsewhere that Siteground will do it for you but I found many of my components no longer worked even though they were the latest versions (gallery, ezene, Simpleboard forum). I guess I could have asked Siteground to look at the errors and fix but I ended up switching back.

I too, would like Siteground to offer Joomla on Fantastico so that I can easily install myself and build the site from scratch.