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We are pretty excited to announce the availability of JGive 1.6 Beta 1 for testing. This version brings some really exciting new features as given below. Remember however nice the Screenshots look, that this is a Beta release. So don't use it on live sites! The release is available in the My Subscriptions area for you to download. Feature Highlight...

We would like to congratulate the entire team of Joomla!Day Schweiz for conducting such a great event and concluding it as a great success. This event intented in spreading and sharing knowledge about Joomla and bonding the Joomla Community around Switzerland. We also feel proud to be a part of this event by sponsoring a mobile app for the event an...

Event Owners rejoice! The JTicketing Event Managers app for Android & iOS is here !!  Scan Tickets, Look up names on your guestlists and use multiple devices without worrying about the same ticket being used twice. The JTicketing Event Manager's application lets the event organisers stay organised & check in the attendees at their Event usi...

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of JTicketing v1.4.4 to our subscribers. This version introduces some great usability changes including better implementation of bootstrap, One-Page checkout & a new Dashboard control panel in the backend. This is also an upgrade that you will need to do if you plan to use our brand new IOS & Android app for Event owners. 

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Let's take a quick look at the Features

• One Page checkout flow for a quicker & streamlined checkout experience
• Billing information capture during checkout introduces
• Compatibility with JEvents 3.1.7 & JomSocial 3X
• VAT Reg No Field added on request for EU customers
• Invoice support added on request for EU customers 
• Basic Taxation support introduced
• Better Bootstrap implementation 
• New Control Panel with a dashboard

This is a release that we would recommend everyone upgrades to. To read the full details of this release including all features & bug fixes, please read on. 

When you are custom developing on top of JomSocial, you sometimes need to Catch Ajax calls for modifications. This Quick tutorial will take you through how you can do this.

Once in a while, all of us come across a site that still feels a bit laggy even after doing all the caching & gzipping. Adding appropriate indexes to Joomla's tables can improve query times, effectively decreasing page load times. Depending on your table structure and the amount of data, indexing could mean massive to a slight performance impro...

Here is an awesome chance for you to know how Invitex can help you get lots & lots of new members for your website ! The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about Invitex & share the secrets of Setting up Invitex in the best possible way to make your site go Viral ! What is Invitex ?  With Awesome features like Native Api contacts i...

As part of our Initiative to involve our custommers in our development process, here is another Subscriber Connect update on Invitex. We have another awesome release of Invitex planned out for release over the next few weeks. We have listened to your feedback in planning this release & hope you will be as excited about it as we are ! The Subscr...

    We have released SocialAds version 2.9.4 which contains minor bug fixes for reported bugs. Please check the changelog given below.  Change Log for v2.9.4 - Bugs Fixed #21349: FOF is not install with 2.9.3 package #21389: changes to check if advertiser is non admin Update now

Sometimes, you might have operations like crons running PHP scripts behind the scenes. If there are any errors in it, it can become difficult to debug them since they might not affect the entire website. Whether you are doing this with any PHP framework or in a Joomla component, logging can help you debug such issues.Here is how you can use Joomla'...

While developing a custom frontend for Authors to manage their own content, we needed to let them delete their own items. The Quick & Dirty way of doing this is by executing some delete queries on zoo related tables. But that's not the right & elegant way to do it.

The right way is to use the Zoo API & do this in 3-4 lines of code against 20-30 lines of the dirty code.

Recently, we had a chance to develop a Payment gateway plugin for HikaShop. We thought this would be a good chance to share a small overview with everyone!

Let's Get started. 

The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about SocialAds & share the secrets of what goes into setting it up to Maximise the Revenue earning potential of your website ! With innovative features like Flexible Zones & pricing, Email Ad delivery, Extensive Social, Geo & Keyword targeting, Flexible pricing models &a...

Hey all, In Invitex 2.7.4, we have fixed the issue related the Windows Live Mail API updates . Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x PHP 5.3 or higher is needed - Bugs fixed #21269 Clicking on Hotmail(Widows live) button in frontend throws "404-Page not found" error. 

Importing contacts using Hotmail API works in three steps:
1. Getting Request Token:

Use the following URL to request token form Hotmail.

 https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=CLIENT_ID&scope=wl.signin+wl.basic+wl.contacts_emails&response_type=code&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL

• client_id(represented here by CLIENT_ID) is the one that you received when you registered your app in the Live Connect app management site.
• scope parameter has to be "wl.signin+wl.basic+wl.contacts_emails" in case of Importing Email contacts
• response_type parameter is set to code, which requests an authorization code.
• redirect_uri parameter (represented here by REDIRECT_URL) is the URL that Live Connect returns users to after they sign in.