Joomla Tutorials Convert to Joomla 1.5
Written by Brian Duckett
Are your Joomla 1.0 templates useless for your Joomla 1.5 websites?
As the Joomla core team moves support from the 1.0 platform over to 1.5 you may be asking yourself if all of that work making and/or customizing your Joomla 1.0 templates has gone to waste. The answer is... "No". Converting to Joomla 1.5 is a thoughtful process, but it only requires a few edits to the way content is called. In order to convert to Joomla 1.5, you should begin with your index.php file. Before we begin with the new calls to convert to Joomla 1.5, take note that the security syntax has been modified.
These should be the first lines of code in your index file.
Your current 1.0 file will read:
In order to convert to Joomla 1.5 the new syntax will read:
.
Converting the template is rather easy, if you follow these simple rules. Beginning with the content calls, you can start to see how much easier it is to identify what each call is, simply by eying it.
The second step required to prep your file for conversion requires a change in the DOCTYPE.
Currently your DOCTYPE will read:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
While the new syntax for your Joomla 1.5 DOCTYPE will read:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language ?>" dir="<?php echo $this->direction; ?>">
Among the improvements are better integration with international languages and the direction variable allows for international languages to change the direction of the text.
Let's begin by locating the calls for the template:
Joomla 1.0
$mainframe->getTemplate()Joomla 1.5
$this->templateWhile in the process of converting your template over to Joomla 1.5 notice that the calls for URL's have changed also. The variable in the configuration file is no longer absolute.
Find the Joomla 1.0 calls for URL's:
$mosConfig_live_site$this->urlUpdate your module calls to support the Joomla 1.5 format easily by locating the
<?php mosLoadModules('banner',-2); ?> <jdoc:include type="modules" name="banner" style="xhtml" />Finally, change the main body syntax from:
<php mosMainBody(); ?><jdoc:include type="component" /> Next, the templateDetails.xml file will need to be edited and converted to the the Joomla 1.5 syntax also. First locate the <mosinstall version="1.0" type="template">
Change this over to <install version="1.5" type="template">
Note: Don't forget to close out your tag at the end of the document. Between your <postions> tags, place your module positions between the <position> tags, save and you've just completed converting your template to Joomla 1.5.
If you have any questions on this tutorial, let me know so that I can continue to improve on the usefulness of this tutorial.
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