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Flex2 shipping module for VirtueMart on Joomla

Just a quick post here to say that I have released a VirtueMart shipping module for Joomla 1.5.

Suffice to say that it provides a flexible mechanism for calculating shipping with separate scales for “Domestic” and “International” orders.

The idea for this module, plus core source code, was derived from an existing module “flex” by Micah Shawn which is contained in the current VirtueMart distribution.

You can download the module from HERE. Installation instructions are in the included README file.

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Joomla Textile Plugin

During the process of migrating a large Joomla site from 1.0 to 1.5 I ran into a problem. As usual with any sites with user editable content, I had steered away from using a WYSIWYG editor (I’ve yet to find one that actually works!) and have used Textile to format the content.

However, some serious Googling did not reveal a plugin for Joomla 1.5 to render the content. The original “mos Textile” mambot has disappeared and “rok Textile” does not work on 1.5

So I have lashed together a Joomla 1.5 plugin which will render textile markup correctly (including SmartyPants extensions).

Extension details:

  • I’ve called the plugin jTextile
  • It’s a BETA release
  • There is no documentation
  • There are no configuration options
  • It works on the content only
  • It is based on the work of others, thanks to their efforts
  • It can be downloaded from here

If there is any interest from out there, I’ll extend and support the plugin. Feel free to post comments or questions in this blog.