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Component hacks
Hacking the main add-ons, the components running under Joomla! to add new features, functionalities, to enhance or even to fix them
Component HackYup, this might be an interesting feature, but how easy or hard is to implement?
You might need to use a plugin's output in a component, or to insert a module in a page outputted by an arbitrary component. I mean ANY plugin which has it's own output in ANY Joomla component you like.
I know, there are couple of ready-made solutions, but all of these are specific to a given component(s) and some components have their own plugins to do that.
It's a know fact between VirtueMart insiders, that you can use Joomla plugins in the product descriptions. For that you need to enable this by clicking a checkbox in VirtueMart's main configuration (VirtueMart Admin > Configuration > Global tab > Enable content mambots/plugins in descriptions? checkbox.)
But what if you want to use plugins elsewhere, in other spots of the VirtueMart pages? For example in some other spot of the product details page - let's say to insert an availability calendar module under the main product image?
Right, you can do it with a little code hack! Let's make our hands dirty with some PHP then!
By default, in the VirtueMart 1.1.* Store Information settings you can add only one e-mail address in Contact Information box. All important mails - as new order notifications, for example, will be sent there. What if - for various reasons - you need to add more, than one e-mail address?
I am angry on Easter bunny. Really... He delivered to me a nasty surprise: lots of my customers complained during/after Easter weekend, that their shops, sometimes the Easter's week began to malfunction: the users using PayPal as payment gateway aren't charged correctly. After studying the problem, I found, that is happening on shops running versions of VirtueMart 1.1.3 to 1.1.9, charging shipping to customers and using the old PayPal API to communicate with the gateway. More precisely, the sipping net amount was not transferred, the shipping tax was sent correctly.
Then, by searching for "virtuemart shipping not transferred to paypal" I discovered, that I am not alone: there where some 54k+ search results returned!
What? A shopping cart with users which can't actually shop?
Weird or not, that was a recent request from one of my customers. He wanted to have a quick way to prevent some of hisusers from putting products in cart, but leave all other site functionality intact.
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The shop to be used in Joomla! is aging a bit - but is still one of most powerful solutions you can found. And with a little hacking you can make it even more terrific!
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