Joomla Developer's Tips and Tricks

If you are maintaining or migrating legacy Joomla sites built with SEBLOD, you know that it is a powerful beast. But its strength—complexity—is also its biggest pain point during upgrades.

I recently worked on a major migration project (moving a heavy SEBLOD site to Joomla 4/5) and hit a wall. The file system was updated, but the site was throwing critical database errors on both the backend and frontend.

If you are stuck with "Unknown column" errors during a SEBLOD update, this guide documents the exact fix.

You need to display K2 extra fields in the related items section in the item view, but this is not supported by K2, here is how to do it...

Its a common problem for K2 newbies, when they try to configure K2 to allow users to submit/edit items on the front-end:

When you try to submit/edit items on the front-end I get this message: 403 - You are not authorized to view this resource

To make front-end edit/submit works smoothly, there are some parameters need to be configured properly:

This error is occurrs in some installations of Joomla 2.5 and may be Joomla 3 also.

It can be fixed like the following...

This error is occurrs in some installations of Joomla 2.5 and may be Joomla 3 also.

It can be fixed like the following...

This is a simple tutorial for how to integrate ChronoForms and K2...

Requirements:

To integrate Chronforms and K2, such that form fields generated by ChronoForms can be populated with K2 extra field values for a K2 item.

For example, you have created a ChronoForms form with name 'contactus', this form has the following fields: