Embedding Flash movie in Joomla

To embed a flash movie in Joomla, edit the source code (usually represented by “HTML” icon in your default editor or “<>” icon in JCE editor) of your article and add the following code:

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″ width=”350″ height=”250″ align=”right”>
<param name=”quality” value=”best” />
<param name=”src” value=”filename_of_your_flash_movie.swf” />
<param name=”align” value=”right” />
<param name=”bgcolor” value=”#44b8bb” />
<param name=”width” value=”350″ />
<param name=”height” value=”250″ />
<param name=”hspace” value=”10″ />
<embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” quality=”best” src=”filename_of_your_flash_movie.swf” align=”right” bgcolor=”#44b8bb” width=”350″ height=”250″ hspace=”10”></embed>
</object>

Replace the filename_of_your_flash_movie with your flash movie.

This assumes that your flash movie is in the web root directory.

Mambo Guestbook has been hacked

When I go to “Manage Entries” I am redirected to another page which is not in our site.

Solution:

1. Login to your mysql database

% mysql -u root -p

2. Enter the root password when prompted.

3. Open the mambo database

mysql> use <mambo_database_name>

4. Display all entries of mos_guestbook table

mysql> select * from mos_guestbook;

5. Note the id of the invalid entry.

6. Delete the invalid entry.

mysql> delete from mos_guestbook where id=”<id_invalid_entry>”;

7. Repeat steps 4 to 6 as needed the quit

mysql> quit

Mhonarc Warning: Database (2.6.8) != program (2.6.16) version.

I upgraded mhonarc to the latest version and I got this error message

Warning: Database (2.6.8) != program (2.6.16) version.

Solution:

Execute mha-dbedit

# mha-dbedit

How do I skip OpenOffice.org Document Recovery?

Every time I open OpenOffice.org I get the “OpenOffice.org Document Recovery” window. When I click on the “Start Recovery” button, recovery of some files fail. These files are always presented when I run OpenOffice.org. I want to skip this step since the files are no longer needed.

Solution:

Remove the Recovery.xcu file in the ~user/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office directory

Facile Forms and Mambo

When I upgraded to Mambo 4.6.2 I had problems viewing my forms.

Error message displayed on the Page Layout window:
You are not authorized to view this resource.
You need to login.

Solution:

Changed the “Run backend preview in a iframe” to “no” in the configuration