Have you ever wanted to extend the Joomla! 1.5 User Registration form to also include those fields in the Contact form? So you can grab your user's address and phone number information at the registration period and have them available in your Contacts component?

Attachments:

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usermeta.zip

PostHeaderIcons (in Artisteer Templates) for Joomla!

If you have a template (more than likely generated by Artisteer) and you want to remove the PostDateIcon (or PostAuthorIcon) from displaying, here's how to accomplish that task.

For whatever reason, the Artisteer templates apply the icons to the article date and author inside the html over-rides rather than through CSS (like they should).

You'll need to edit /html/com_content/all_sub_dirs/default.php (or blog_item.php etc.)

Find the line like: 

 <?php ob_start(); ?><?php echo JHTML::_('image.site', 'PostDateIcon.png', null, null, null, JText::_("PostDateIcon"), array('width' => '17', 'height' => '18')); ?> <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

You need to remove the

 <?php echo JHTML::_('image.site', 'PostDateIcon.png', null, null, null, JText::_("PostDateIcon"), array('width' => '17', 'height' => '18')); ?>

part.

Then you may need to go into your /template/your_template/css/style.css and adjust the article header css some:

/* begin PostIcons */
.PostHeaderIcons, .PostHeaderIcons a, .PostHeaderIcons a:link, .PostHeaderIcons a:visited, .PostHeaderIcons a:hover
{
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
  font-size: 11px;
  color: #630F70;
}

Featured Articles

This module allows you to construct a list of articles by section, category, or article ID (similar to Latest News). It relies on the GD libraries, so make sure you have that configured in your web server's php if you want to use the image feature of this module.

You have the option to also display the list with a thumbnail of the first image in the article itself.

The module comes with 3 style displays defined already: joomla, style, style2.

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Featured Articles Module

Though you never want your users to leave your site, it is nice to provide them a method to do so, if they should desire.

Here's a little component to allow a user to remove his account.  After you install it, add a new menu link to it. Select the removeme link and make sure to set it to Registered if you don't want to bother guests with seeing it. Don't use the notuser type for a link. It's not meant to be assigned a menu link.

If you'd rather have your remove me function in a module, get the module and install it after the component.

You can download both the component and the module here after logging in.

Attachments:

File
com_removeme.zip
mod_removeme.zip