Joomla and intense debate

well with joomla when you publish content into goes into a category which belongs to a section
for instance if I had an international sports site my blog entry about the NFL
would go into the American section and its category would be football

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Joomla is a CMS (joomla.org) that includes blogging. In addition, you can add components or plugins similar to Wordpress. For example; I'm using the component "myBlog" to do my blogging. Building a Joomla component for Intense Debate will allow users to "install" ID without knowing too much about the behind the scenes details. As I understand it, the ID component could modify the html in Joomla to allow for the use of ID. Does that help understand the Joomla end any?

The Joomla! extension developers at RocketWerx are using ID - but it looks like they just added the js to the bottom of their content:
http://www.rocketwerx.com/blog/5-rock...

i just develop a small plugin to use Intensedebate with Joomla.

here is the link:

http://123joomla.com/descargas/ver-do...

I think I figured out why ID isn't correctly seeing my image pages as different from one another -- it appears ID is cutting the url short at a '&' character. Unfortunately, the Joomla! component I'm using has a '&' in the url even with SEF turned on, and the url showing in the ID management area for the posts is cut short just at that point.

I am using the RocketWerks plug ins for Joomla 1.5 and it works fine with one very annoying exception...all comments for all articles show up on every single article. Meaning that if I open an article about Rex Ryan (this is a Jets Fan Site) and I add a comment on the article...when I go on to another article the comment I made about Rex Ryan shows up under the other article. In fact it shows up everywhere I have IntenseDebate showing...any clues on how to get comments to only show for the article it was originally posted on?

I had help from a Joomla developer and have come up with a solution that puts IntenseDebate ONLY on articles from specific categories (set from options in a joomla plugin page that was put together from scratch). Let me know if you want to hear more...

I have solved a problem integrating with joomla.

Basically ID truncates the page url after the first & when running joomla in non Search Engine Friendly mode. This means that ID can't tell the difference between the content pages so you will have the same comments on all pages.

So this means:

"http://www.creativecampaignsday.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=92"

Is seen by ID as:

"http://www.creativecampaignsday.org/index.php?option=com_content"

Solution:

You can either turn on joomla's own SEF mode (this breaks my template due to inclusion of index.php in every url) or do what I did which is use sh404sef in the mode which uses .htaccess redirection. This removes the index.php from the url (so my template works) and provides a url that ID can distinguish easily e.g.

"http://www.creativecampaignsday.org/film-showcase.html"

This way I get seperate comments on each of the main pages. To see this in action go to http://www.creativecampaignsday.org/ (site still in development).

Hope this helps anybody with the same problem as it took me a couple of hours to figure out.

Thanks ID for a great comment system, integrates beautifully with my existing style.

O yes I'm running latest version of joomla 1.5.10

Basil

Hi there,

I am using joomla 1.5, php 4 and the rokintense plugin, but it doesn't seem to work. The icon appears at the articles I enabled commenting at, but I can't comment, there is nothing to be seen..

any idea?