Perrys blog

Finally I finished the design and setup of my old site, p-ds.no this site will be used for misc projects and my business. Not sure what to fill the pages with tho.. At least it will contain information about the projects I’m part of and some of the components and modules I’ve been working on and still are working with for Joomla sites. At the current time this is JoomTrac, AdsManager, JDirectory and PaidSystem. Right now I’m also trying to get a working copy of CB_JDirectory to work, this is a plugin for Community Builder so that you can show content in JDirectory that belongs to the user in question in a list in the profile view. Right now this one is only working for the first initial directory that is made when installing JDirectory, but I’m working on getting this to be directory aware so that if the user has content in more than one directory you will be able to see them in the list as well, either sorted by directory in the same list or in different views or tabs. A bit depending on the Community Builder tab system. At least it’s a work in progress.

I’ve been Googling for a solution on how to get Trac and Joomla! to work together without too much work. The best thing would be a Joomla! Trac bridge, but I’ve not succeeded  in finding something like that. I’ve found some partly information about how to get Joomla! authenticated users to be accepted by Trac as authenticated but nothing about how to get Joomla! and Trac to share their user database. So I started poking around with different Trac settings and I suddenly found that Mandriva Linux had a package named trac-mysql which makes Trac capable of connecting to a MySQL database instead of a SQLite database so I started to search for a way to migrate from SQLite to MySQL and I got several hits on Google but as all you guys searching for things regarding Trac on Google is almost 99% pointless since it will show a hit for every Trac powered site in the world which is open for web crawlers. But after a couple of misses on the first page of hits I found one: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SqLiteToMySql on Tracs own homepage :$ Why didn’t I just start searching there you can ask, but I thought I had read every possible page both in my local Trac setup and Tracs main page which wasn’t correct. (more…)