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I have used a few download managers in Joomla, such as DocMan and jDownload. But my lastest favour is Phoca Download. First of all, that is a GPL component and Joomla 1.5 native. Moreover, so far, that is very stable application. I have not found any bugs at all. In addition, that is only a component. It has plug-ins and modules. According to their documentation, they has some plug-ins can add the links to a file, category and section to an article. I have tried their module menu. That is very good. It can draw a menu to all sections in my homepage, that is good for the user browsing the by sections.

I have used the fantastico at cpanel to create my joomla instance. I found I can't type any chinese characters, after saving, they became like "???". The problem is the collation in mySQL database is set to latin by default. My solution is create a sql dump and ten replaced to collation on each table and field to utf-8.

I am writing my joomla component. In admin console, I got an error "500 - Layout "default" not found". That is because under views/[component name]/tmpl is missing a template file. The template must be named as default.php/

I am writing a joomla component, I got an 404 - Component Not Found. I found that is because I got a typo in main component file. For example, the component name is com_hello, then it needs com_hello\hello.php.

I found by default, Joomla trimed out all html tag in request variables.
The solution is like that:

PHP: