Window Dressing Joomla

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Here I show you how to 'window dress' joomla to seamlessly integrate with your phpfox site.

YOU MUST HAVE THE hirednetwork plugin INSTALLED! Otherwise none of this will make sense

First step is to disable Joomla user registration.
From your joomla admin panel go to
Exenstions->Module Manager
Look for 'login Form' and disable it.



1. MENU'S
We can edit the joomla menu's to direct us to the phpfox site for critcial functions like login, user edit profiles, logout etc. Lets start with the User menu.

USER MENU
To edit the user menu go to Menu's->User Menu. Click on 'Your Details'. We need to change the type of menu so that it links to the users phpFox profile. So click on the button 'Change Type' and select 'External Link'. You can change the Title to what ever you want, e.g. My Account, or My Profile. But in the link box insert the following:

Code:

http://yoursite.com/phpfoxFolder/account/

So if your site was 'yoursite.com' and phpfox was installed under a folder called community, the link to the users 'my account' page would be:

Code:

http://yoursite.com/community/account/

Remember, this menu option will only appear if the user if logged in! Its a link to their account settings page, not their public profile page! A good shortcut is to copy the link for the 'My Account' main menu option on phpFox directly into this box.

Next, we'll edit the link under the user menu for the logout section. If we leave it as is, users will log out of Joomla, but not phpFox. We'll simply redirect that too to the logout page in phpFox. Again, under the User Menu, click on 'Logout' and then 'Change Type'. Click on 'External Link' near the end of the list that appears. In the 'link' box enter the following:

Code:

http://www.YourSite.com/phpFoxFolder/logout/

If you can't follow the above link, then simply copy the link from the 'logout' option on your phpFox site, and paste it directly into the link box for this option.


Main Menu
The main menu can be as extensive or as simple as you want it. If you templating Joomla to look like phpFox, you might only want a very simply main menu. Or you might want to add all the links from phpFox sections like video, music, blogs and forum into your main menu. Either way, to insert a link to your phpFox site, the easiest thing to do is copy the link from the phpFox site. Create a new menu option of type 'External Link' and paste the link code into the 'link; box. Viola! Your new menu option has been created!