Free Joomla Template 3 - Joomlabasic Charity

Finally an update!! Recently, my schedule is packed with schools and work stuffs. Enough with the unnecessary issues :)... At last, I can find some time to make a quick conversion from the previous charity HTML template.

Joomlabasic Charity modules consist of:
user1 module
top module
right module

Remember to place the mainmenu at "top" position with "flat list" styling.

As usual free free to post suggestions. Thanks and enjoy.
You can get the template --> here

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HTML Charity Template

This month we are building a site for charity and here is the html web template. This template will be converted to Joomla 1.0 template, check back for updates.

You can get the html template here

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Joomla useful Extension

After playing around with a number of freely available Joomla extensions, I find some pretty useful ones when developing joomla sites.

1. JCE ~ pretty much an upgrade from tinymce wysiswyg editor, recommended.

2. Simple image Gallery ~ display pictures in thumbnail formats (viewable in original size slideshow) from a folder, as the name says it's simple and it works well :). I suggest using this for a gallery page.

3. mosModule ~ show a module in a content, useful.

4. denVideo ~ play flashs, videos, musics in your content or modules, another useful one.

5. Fireboard ~ install this component if you want to have a forum in your site.

6. Virtuemart ~ Good shopping cart systems, but pretty complex if code modification is required. Use it as it is.

7. Community Builder ~ let the user members feel to be part of your web community! Uploading profiles and stuffs are nice features.

8. Facile Form ~ I love this addon, it is able to create simple to advanced web forms. Sometimes virtuemart order flow will be much of a hassle for a simple customer order and hacking the code will be too much of a work. This form builder will be able to sort it out :).
this is not install and go addon, but learning how to use it will be very useful.

All these extensions are great, one problem I find is that there is rarely any support in their forums anymore.
If there's anymore Joomla extensions that you find useful and simple, do add on :).

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Sending command to GSM Modem using php Settings

the php_serial class sets the com port line by line. Windows seems to not be able to get the correct settings this way. Whenever I set the data bit to 8 the parity bits goes back to even. All these have to be done in one command line. So we have to modify the php_serial class to run the command in a single line and it solves the problem, for now.. :)

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Sending command to GSM Modem using php

I have a project on integrating sms module into Joomla interface. I found a php_serial class that enables sending command through serial port by using php. I have tested it through hyperterminal and it works perfectly well, but when I tested it with GSM Modem, the AT command seems to be not working. Anyone has an idea of how to use the php_serial to send AT command to GSM Modem? If you have any clue on how to send AT command using php_serial, please inform me :) Thanks
Here's my code

include "php_serial.class.php";

// Let's start the class
$serial = new phpSerial;

$serial->deviceSet("COM1");
$serial->confBaudRate(115200);
$serial->confCharacterLength(8);
$serial->confParity("none");
$serial->confStopBits(1);
$serial->confFlowControl("xonxoff");

$serial->deviceOpen();

$serial->sendMessage("at+cmgs=\"+6583569765\"\r");
$serial->sendMessage("hello".chr(26));

$serial->deviceClose();

?>

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Free Template 2 - Joomlabasic Biz

I have finally completed 2nd template. I think there's still a lot to be tweaked to get this template look more professional. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
You can get the template --> here

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Free Template 2 Layout

I am working on the 2nd template, expected to be finished by this weekends. This template will have 4 modules, here's the outline.
Got to get started :_)

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