Archive for December, 2011

30% Discount New Year Coupon

Joomlatools welcomes 2012 with a bang! Announcing the Joomlatools Member Center New Year promo!

Get 30% off for a Joomlatools Member Center 12-month subscription by using the coupon code HAPPY2012.

Give and receive the gift of a Joomlatools Member Center subscription and start the year right with the 30% New Year discount.

Get access to DOCman 2.0, FILEman, LOGman and even more Joomla extensions throughout 2012. This is another reason to celebrate the New Year for Joomla users worldwide.

Coupon code is valid until January 6, 2012.

Visit the Joomlatools website and become a member today!

An Early Christmas Present

It’s the season for giving, so Joomlatools is very happy to announce an early Christmas present for our club members – beta versions of FILEman and LOGman are now available for download and testing.

  • FILEman is our lightweight, simple, speedy and vamped up version of the Joomla media manager featuring multiple and remote file uploads, automatic thumbnail generation and easy file linking.
  • LOGman brings Facebook style user activity streams to Joomla. Easily keep track of what is happening on your site and what other people are doing. Record and view the activities of your web administrators, writers, editors & even yourself.

The beta test packages for FILEman and LOGman are now available for all Joomlatools club members in the Member Center, in the Downloads >> Beta Products area. Don’t have a subscription yet ? You can join here.

Please note that this is a beta version of FILEman and LOGman and is intended for testing purposes only. Please do not install them on live sites. We do not provide support on beta products. We do want to hear your feedback, ideas and bugs reports. You can report them through our beta product support forums.

Please let us know how you like FILEman and LOGman and how we can further improve them!

Happy Testing and Merry Christmas !

DOCman 1.6.3 released

We are pleased to announce the immediately availability of DOCman 1.6.3 for Joomla 1.7. This release is available for download for all members of our Member Center.

This hotfix release fixes one (1) major bug in 1.6.2. This bug also affects all previous versions of DOCman 1.6.x. running on Joomla 1.7.3. DOCman 1.6.x running on Joomla 1.7.2 or below is not affected. This bug does not affect the DOCman 1.5.x series

We became aware of issues with DOCman 1.6.x running on Joomla 1.7.3 through user reports on our forums. A change in Joomla 1.7.3 caused an unanticipated `Itemid` regression in DOCman.  The result was, in some cases, categories or documents which are meant to be visible to the public would ask you to login or would return a 403 error.

More information about the new releases can be found in our change-logs.
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DOCman Secrets: Large file distribution

DOCman is well known for its ability to be used for small file distribution. But did you know that DOCman is as equally adept at serving large files without a huge resource gain?

In this edition of DOCman secrets, we give you a few tips and configuration changes that will help you use DOCman to deliver Gigabyte files with ease while maintaining the usual DOCman blend you are accustomed to.

Two roads for large files

There are two roads when we define large files.

The first of these roads would be the 0-150MB road and the second would be the 150MB to 8GB and beyond. The first road is the most simple and does not require too much sacrifice in terms of features.

  1. Set max_filesize_upload and post_max_size to within your upload range.
  2. Set session timeouts to ensure uploads don’t fail due to timed out sessions.
Tip: Remember that DOCman can store its files outside the webroot so you don’t need to expose your files to the outside world.

Larger files require an alternative workflow because setting our PHP settings too high and doing likewise with the admin sessions would have adverse effects. Here are some suggested settings:
  1. Shift uploading to be done via FTP.
  2. Use remote links to ensure we don’t pass these large files through PHP and chew through memory.
  3. Ensure anti leech is on to hide your internal link structure.
  4. Ensure hide remote links is set to on.

And that covers road two.

Two separate paths both dealing with large file delivery and distribution and both using one platform, DOCman – grab your copy today from the Joomlatools store!

DOCman 1.5.12 & 1.6.2 released

We are pleased to announce the immediately availability of maintenance releases for DOCman in our Member Center:

  • DOCman 1.5.12 for Joomla 1.5
  • DOCman 1.6.2 for Joomla 1.7

At Joomlatools, we are fully committed to providing you a quality product that just works. We constantly strive to eliminate the bugs. The maintenance releases fixes one non-critical bug in 1.5.12 & two non-critical bugs in 1.6.2 – these bugs also affect all previous versions.

More information about the new releases can be found in our changelog.

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