Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

I recently got an issue on PHP 5.3.2 via Ubuntu Lucid, after upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04, On one of the old Joomla! source I’m working on I keep getting this warning “Warning: Parameter 3 to showItem() expected to be a reference, value given in…. “.

The solution is downgrade your PHP 5.3.2 to PHP 5.2, here are the steps to follow.

1. On your /usr/local/sbin/, create php5_2-downgrade.sh, copy paste this source.

#!/bin/bash
# by Ruben Barkow (rubo77) http://www.entikey.z11.de/

# Originally Posted by Bachstelze http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9080474#post9080474
# OK, here's how to do the Apt magic to get PHP packages from the karmic repositories:

echo "Am I root? "
if [ "$(whoami &2>/dev/null)" != "root" ] && [ "$(id -un &2>/dev/null)" != "root" ] ; then
echo " NO!

apache2ctl restart


2. Open your terminal, chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/php5.2-downgrade
3. On your terminal, ./php5_2-downgrade.sh
4. Just follow the steps, everything is very straight forward.

Last 4 years ago 2nd Software Freedom Day was held in Polytechnic University of the Philippines. I was also there to support the birth of Joomla! CMS. Back then opensource is never been so colorful, unlike today there are a lot of famous variaties of opensource application such as Content Management System, Graphic Software, LAMP easy setup, famous IDE & etc. On one part of my session during afternoon session of Dynamic/ Static CMS (Joomla!), I say to all students & professionals “You should be proud that you are here today. Opensource is more colorful than ever, more knowledge & oportunity for everyone”

See you in the next more event to come…

Some links:

http://www.cp-union.com/cpunion/

http://www.cp-union.com/cpunion/content/2009/06/22/software-freedom-day-2009

http://www.pinoyblender.com/

http://buko.pinoyblender.org/

http://www.joomla.org.ph

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VENUE
G2VC Innovation Center (Offices of Exist and Morp)
5th Floor, The Orient Square
F. Ortigas Road (formerly Emerald Ave.)
Ortigas Center, Pasig City

We will be discussing Joomla, Drupal and other open source CMS.
Special guest is Jay Aguilar, Pinoy developer who works at Google in California.

those who cannot attend can watch live video streaming: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/barcamp-manila

Joomla User Group Philippines (JUG-Ph) started as a small group of filipino
way back Mambo days that migrated when Joomla! was born.

At the subforum of Joomla!, Filipino community had grown rapidly until today.

There are a couple of disadvantages on our existing subforum.
1. Most of us needed to use bookmark just to access the forum.
2. Newbie find it very difficult to browse the filipino international zone.
3. Limited privilege for forum moderation.

But this doesn’t mean that we will abandon the international forum, as a matter of fact
we link the international forum for international support.

To unite the filipino and keep the fire burning. We at the Joomla! Philippines
Core Team would like to present to the community a new dimensions towards our
JUG-PH future.

Link: http://forum.joomla.org.ph/

Since knowledge in computer technology assures individual a competitive edge in the 21^st century, Joomla! Day Philippines is indeed as remarkable event for Filipinos as Independence Day (June 12). Joomla! is an award-winning free open source content management system (CMS) enabling professionals and amateurs to build and administer feature-rich, powerful web sites without having to have an extensive knowledge of web programming languages. It is designed to power simple personal homepages as well as complex corporate web applications.

Joomla! has been applied by individuals and institutions to manage online magazines and newspapers, school and church websites, personal or family homepage, small business websites, non-profit and organizational websites, etc.

The best things in life are free but things could still get better when they bring freedom. Joomla!, apart from being free (available to all under GPL license), precisely brings freedom to its end users. A Joomla! package is easy to install that even non-programmers can install the software up and have it running all by himself. All it takes to install and manage a Joomla! powered site is basic knowledge in word processing. Moreover, there are more than 150,000 friendly users and developers in the Joomla! community who will be very much willing to inform and assist.

For software developers, Joomla! features a powerful application framework to allow them to create sophisticated add-ons such as inventory control systems, data reporting tools, complex business directories, custom products, the possibilities are endless.

Born in cyberspace on August 17, 2005, the software was not named Joomla! until fifteen days later on September 1, 2005. Joomla! is the English spelling of the Swahili word jumla which means “all together” or “as a whole”. Joomla! has since lived up to the meaning of its Swahili equivalent, a large number of software developers, computer programmers, webmasters of the world have united rallied behind the software. Joomla! is broadly deployed worldwide with more than 3.5 million downloads.

Shortly after Joomla! was made the official name of the software, the Philippines celebrated Software Freedom Day at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) on September 10, 2005 joining the ranks of other nations in their quest for cyberspace freedom.

Come June 14, 2008, Filipinos online will once again express its commitment to the free software movement with the holding of the first-ever Joomla! Day Philippines – a great opportunity to learn and network with other Joomla! users and developers in the country. The conference will be attended by representatives from the Joomla! Core Team and Working Group, representatives from non-governmental organizations, local government units, and the business sector. Joomla! Day Philippines is another good reason to celebrate freedom after Philippine Independence Day. Don’t remove the Philippine flags just yet until June 14.

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT www.joomla.org.ph

for the full announcement visit the forum

To support older version of Joomla extensions such as template, components, and modules
enable the “System – Legacy” go to extensions => plugin manager.

Here are the list needed to be writable:

administrator/backups/
administrator/components/
administrator/language/
administrator/language/en-GB/
administrator/modules/
administrator/templates/
components/
images/
images/banners/
images/stories/
language/
language/en-GB/
language/pdf_fonts/
modules/
plugins/
plugins/content/
plugins/editors/
plugins/editors-xtd/
plugins/search/
plugins/system/
plugins/user/
plugins/xmlrpc/
tmp/
templates/
Cache Directory /home/jdsits08/public_html/cache/
Cache Directory /home/jdsits08/public_html/administrator/cache/

I may update this tips from time to time. More tips coming soon….