How to fix encoding issues
Most productfeeds are UTF-8 encoded.
Some, csv, feeds might be Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 encoded.
Sometimes , csv or xml, file contains text that is double encoded.
In all situations, the text might appear garbled on your site. Mostly only everything that is special like the euro-sign, €,...
How to change the 'read more' and 'currency' strings?
Language Override
The easiest method to change the values of the 'currency' and 'read more' is to create a language override in the adminstrator (administrator/index.php?option=com_languages&view=overrides) and add the language constants DATAFEEDS_CURRENCY and DATAFEEDS_READ_MORE for the sit...
Creating a custom parser
The component does support the major formats of CSV files. Using the mapping in feed configuration any CSV file (with a header row) should work. Problem might be that the 'description' field has a different name, and there is no mapping for the description. This can be solved easily using a callb...
Searching the items
The component does not use the native joomla search or smart-search. Main reason for this is performance.
You can search any dataitems menu page using the ?q= parameter. So if you wan't to search your Finish accomodations having the term 'Sauna' you would use somethinf like https://www.example....
Step by Step guide
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Joomla installation
Joomla getting started
The site starts with a plain straitforward installation of joomla 3.5
As final step URL rewriting has been enabled in the joomla global configuration ( moving .htaccess into place).
Com datafeeds installation
download page
insta...
Performance issues
Size matters, depending on your web server there are limitations on the amount of items you can have in your database or what size the productfeeds can be. How big really depends on the server.
mod datamenu
The left hand side of the mod_datamenu configuration is the default joomla on, this page depict the settings on the right side.
layout
Each module need a layout to display it's content, the mod_datamenu has different types of layouts. The function changes with the suffix.
The module mod_data...
Display Pinterest Images In Joomla
This simple joomla extension displays pinterest images from the RSS feed from pinterest.com.
Either all pins or just a boards pins can be shown.
download mod_rsspins.zip
The layout is very basic, to customize simple copy the file mod_rsspins/tmpl/default.php to mod_rsspins/tmpl/<you...
Datafeeds content plugin
This plugin allows to load datafeed items into joomla articles like the loadposition (loadmodule) plugin does. This module however allows to pass a query to the module. This allows to display specific items.
Example
Marketing€ 106.35Meer info bol.comProeven van succes€ 99.00Meer in...
Populair posts with analytics
CMS systems like joomla and wordpress provide some kind of 'most visited pages' statistics. However these counters are quite limited. In joomla for example you can get the total count but not the most popular pages of for example last week.
There are plug-ins and extension that do a more detaile...