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[asinsh Friend asinshJoin date: May 2011Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#163831

I first posted this at the forum on joomla.org but it’s more of a ja purity question and no one responded there so I am asking here.

I migrated a test site from joomla 1.5 to 1.6 without a hitch and I screwed around till I got the original ja purity template (i.e. NOT ja purity II) working well in joomla 1.6 (meaning that the test site now looks like the real joomla 1.5 site). Getting ja purity to work on 1.6 involved the following hacks:

– to solve errors triggered by ja_purity/templates/ja_purity/html/com_content/article/default.php, I renamed ja_purity/templates/ja_purity/html to ja_purity/templates/ja_purity/html_bak (getting rid of html override as per a post I saw somewhere)

– to solve hidden errors that only surfaced when I turned on maximum error messaging, I commented out the following code in templates/ja_purity/index.php:

if(($_GET['id'] == '6') && ($_GET['Itemid'] == '18')){

echo '
div#left ul.menu li.item5 a{
color:#ffc91d;
}
';

}else if(($_GET['id'] == '12') && ($_GET['Itemid'] == '20')){

echo '
div#left ul.menu li.item7 a{
color:#ffc91d;
}
';

}else if(($_GET['id'] == '14') && ($_GET['Itemid'] == '21')){

echo '
div#left ul.menu li.item8 a{
color:#ffc91d;
}
';

}else if(($_GET['id'] == '18') && ($_GET['Itemid'] == '24')){

echo '
div#left ul.menu li.item10 a{
color:#ffc91d;
}
';

}


That all seems to work pretty well, but I have a few questions:

1. I would much prefer migrating this to ja purity II. I successfully installed T3 and ja purity II but I see that the css scheme is totally different from that of ja purity so I can’t simply paste my old css into there. Is there a way to migrate ja purity css over to ja purity II or am I stuck recreating it from scratch? If I have to recreate it, that’s going to be a problem (someone else designed the site for me and I’m not sure I have the css skills to recreate it without spending tons of time doing it).

2. If I can’t migrate it, how much of a loss is it to stick with ja purity with the hacks I describe above? What am I losing when I do that, given that I have currently a finished static site that looks the way I want?

3. If I want to add a blog to my joomla 1.6 site, is that going to be a real problem to do while sticking with ja purity? Is that going to force me to migrate to ja purity II?

[asinsh Friend asinshJoin date: May 2011Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#390999

Hi, all. Sorry for the bump but I am planning on triyng to update my live site this weekend and was hoping for some feedback on the question I pose above before I do that. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Alan

[asinsh Friend asinshJoin date: May 2011Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#392161

Hi, all. Any thoughts on this?

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#394247

HI there,

JA Purity is maintained by Joomla.org and so i am afraid we can not upgrade it to J! 1.6 version. However, we encourage you to move over to JA Purity II for Joomla 1.6 the demo of the same can be seen here >> http://joomla16-templates.joomlart.com/ja_purity_ii/

Please download the same here >> http://www.joomlart.com/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=402

Also remember that JA Purity II for J 1.5 is T3 framework 1 and JA Purity II for Joomla 1.6 is T3 Framework II based.

[asinsh Friend asinshJoin date: May 2011Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#394296

Thanks for the response, but that’s not really what I was asking about. I was not asking for anyone to update ja purity. I have an existing site with ja purity that I updated to joomla 1.6 and I was able to exactly replicate the joomla 1.5 version of my site by making the tweaks to ja purity that I describe in the first post of this thread (to the outside world nothing at all has changed). I won’t be changing the layout going forward so I have no use for T3 framework. So my question was whether my sticking with ja purity and the tweaks I made to get it to work properly on joomla 1.6 is a bad idea.

What do I mean about ‘bad idea’? I guess I mean two things:

– will this create big security holes compared to upgrading to ja purity II?

– will this make it harder for me when I need to upgrade to the next joomla version (1.7).

Any thoughts on those questions?

And if I decide to spend the time trying to migrate my site to ja purity II, should I wait till the final release or is it ok to use the beta (do you expect any big changes when you move from beta to final)? And any idea when the final will be?

Thanks again.

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#394911

Hi asinsh,

As said above, first of all we do not maintain or own JA Purity template, it was winner of the template competition held by Joomla.org and is therefore maintained by them.

Joomla 1.5 template are not natively / legacy supported in Joomla 1.6. JA Purity is no longer developed for Joomla 1.6 and was dropped by the joomla.org, so its a discontinued product.

You do seems to have good knowledge of the code and so you should be able to decide on the efforts you are taking in sticking to JA Purity.

From JoomlArt side, all i can say is go for the latest and compatible version for your active site.

Arvind

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