Internet Marketing Survival by Praveen Kumar C

Hey all.. Are you stuck with displaying your SWF flash file on joomla template? Some times, it displays but not functioning properly? Well, I had same issue just before writing this post. I managed to embed SWF file on header of joomla template but on click event does not work. But fixed it after some research.

It is a simple workaround to get it running and I just wanted to share that with you guys.  You know all the joomla sites will run on only one domain either www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com. It will redirect to the original URL if you try the other one.  On this case find the actual domain that runs the joomla site. If it is www.yourdomain.com then the URL you are trying to embed SWF file should with start with WWW else it should not start with WWW. Simple.. Try this. Best if luck.

I am sure every body using Joomla with Google Apps or Gmail will be facing problem to authenticate SMTP in Global configuration. To use Google Apps or Gmail as SMTP mail sender you should first enable SSL on your server. Next, you need to hack the phpmailer page to connect with Google SMTP mail server to send mails.This phpmailer page differs in which version of joomla you are using. Below is the location of the phpmailer page which you need to hack. Before doing anything be smart to backup the file.

Joomla 1.0.x: includes/class.phpmailer.php

Joomla 1.5: includes/phpmailer.php

Find the code around the line 537:

if(strstr($hosts[$index], ":"))
        list($host, $port) = explode(":", $hosts[$index]);
else
{
        $host = $hosts[$index];
        $port = $this->Port;
}

Replace it with:

if (preg_match('#(([a-z]+://)?[^:]+):(\d+)#i', $hosts[$index], $match))
{
        $host = $match[1];
        $port = $match[3];
}
else
{
        $host = $hosts[$index];
        $port = $this->Port;
}

Now login to your joomla backend and go to Mailer in Global configuration

Enter/choose the options in below format

Mailer: SMTP Server
Mail From: <your_user_id>@gmail.com (Google apps user: your_user_id@yourdomain.com)
SMTP Auth: Yes
SMTP User: <your_user_id>@gmail.com (Google apps user: your_user_id@yourdomain.com)
SMTP Password: <your_password>
SMTP Host: ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465

Be sure that you have enable POP in your Gmail or Google Apps before you save this and test. All the best.