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[zeeshah Friend zeeshahJoin date: June 2012Posts: 35Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 15]

#179286

Hello Everyone,

I have tricky problem for you guys.

I want to create a payment page/article for customers that is not visible on the homepage. Basically, its a link I sent to clients once theyare ready to pay, but I don’t want all my visitors seeing this page.

Is it possible with Joomla 2.5?

Thanks a ton!

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#461715

<em>@zeeshah 331101 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello Everyone,

I have tricky problem for you guys.

I want to create a payment page/article for customers that is not visible on the homepage. Basically, its a link I sent to clients once theyare ready to pay, but I don’t want all my visitors seeing this page.

Is it possible with Joomla 2.5?

Thanks a ton!</blockquote>

There are a few ways you can achieve this….

You can have menüs that are hidden or positioned in a non shown position and then send them the link or
You can make a menü item only available for example to registered users e.g. this page is visible only after logging on

Does that help?

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#461717

Thanks for the help. Can you give me an example of how to position a menu item so that no one sees it?

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#461718

I don’t have Mendozite but this is Joomla so…. 😉

Create a new menü – if you installed the quickstart chances are you’ve got extra menüs there that you won’t be using. For example in lots of JA templates there are the original Joomla menüs there – take “Fruit Shop” as an example. Then you can use one of the menü items under the Fruit Shop menü. Select a single article and you have the link there. This is what you can send to people.

As long as you don’t publish this menü in a module – which is how menüs are normally published then it will unseen by anyone without the link.

Does that make sense to you? 🙂

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1. zeeshah

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#461721

Here’s what I did:

1. Created an article

2. Created a menu item and linked it to the article I created in 1.

3. The link that shows up on the menu item under “Link” is an “index” something link and goes nowhere?

Have I done it properly?

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#461724

<em>@zeeshah 331109 wrote:</em><blockquote>Here’s what I did:

1. Created an article

2. Created a menu item and linked it to the article I created in 1.

3. The link that shows up on the menu item under “Link” is an “index” something link and goes nowhere?

Have I done it properly?</blockquote>

I think so!! 🙂

so the link is there – index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13 which means you just send them the link mydomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13 and they should see the page.

Hope that helps!

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#461728

Thanks a ton!

Now the only problem is that the Article Title does not go away. Its strange. When the menu item is published, the title does not appear, but the minute I un-publish the menu item, the article title re-appears. I have tried disabling it from the menu item and article itself, but it just wont go away!

Any suggestions?

Thanks a ton!

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#461732

I’d probably use display:none; or visibility:hidden; in the css. If you can post a url of the “hidden menü” I can tell you where to change it as the JA demo has css set to optimise so I can’t see the file.

🙂

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1. zeeshah

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#461735

Here is the “hidden” page: http://seospecialistsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103

Thanks a ton!

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#461743

Can you set optimise css to “off” in the template manager please!

Merci!

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#461790

What does that do exactly?

Thanks

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#461791

<em>@zeeshah 331211 wrote:</em><blockquote>What does that do exactly?

Thanks</blockquote>

It stops the css being compressed and joined into one file. If you look in your template you will see that are various css files. If they are all joined together you can’t see which file contains the code you want to alter. If you don’t compress them, you can find the file and the line quickly using firebug or google chrome. You can set it back to optimise “yes” when you have finished setting the template up.

The link you sent leads to a 404 page too. And the css is still joined/compressed etc!

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#461792

Thanks for that. Yeah, I had to delete the page because for some reason it was making my site crash! Maybe its Google checkout or something….I set it up again and disabled CSS compression:

http://www.seospecialistsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112

Do you have any idea as to why creating this page is slowing down the site so much? The minute I delete it, the site is fine again….very strange!

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#461794

<em>@zeeshah 331213 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for that. Yeah, I had to delete the page because for some reason it was making my site crash! Maybe its Google checkout or something….I set it up again and disabled CSS compression:

http://www.seospecialistsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112

Do you have any idea as to why creating this page is slowing down the site so much? The minute I delete it, the site is fine again….very strange!</blockquote>

Ta.

So to change the css you need to go to /templates/ja_mendozite/css/template.css at line 52

h1.componentheading, .componentheading {color: #333
text-transform: uppercase;
font-family: 'PT Sans',sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 125%;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 0;
visibility: hidden; < add this line
}

You will need to check other pages to see if you lose a heading by mistake. Don’t think so but I haven’t run through your site. 😉

With regards to the slow down of the site….

On the payment page you have a problem with Javascript. It keeps reporting a failure – and repeats the search and gets the fail again. and again, and again – so I have over 4000 error reports, hence the slow down.

– Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL about:blank from frame with URL https://t5tit0m10f02r9d2odvllpqe22obpnh7-a-sgw-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/ifr?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstoregadgetwizard.appspot.com%2Fservlets%2FgadgetServlet%3Fkey%3D0AlyLDJTdVle6dFpFdFdQcEJGYlhPZDU1TENiQ2h0N1E%26mid%3D452118606750055%26currency%3DUSD%26sandbox%3Dfalse%26gadget%3DSMALL&container=storegadgetwizard&view=home&lang=all&country=ALL&debug=0&nocache=0&sanitize=0&v=a08b5ba8bb4535d5&source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seospecialistsinc.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D112&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seospecialistsinc.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D112&libs=core%3Acore.io#st=%25st%25. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

Something wrong there in the google cart.js – you might want to check that out or look in the Joomla Extensions directory for an addon for google payments and see if that works better.

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#461795

Much appreciated. I went ahead and deleted that page. I had to do a complete system restore the last time I created it to make the site stable again.

Will the site be okay once I get rid of the page or do I need to do a site restore one more time?

I’m probably going to have to look into a google plugin, but the problem is that I only want a payment page set-up without any products.

Thanks a lot for all your help!

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