Though Joomla does supply “patch” packages for upgrading, it’s relatively easy to create your very own patch with only the necessary changes, and not the full contents of each changed file.

You may want to do this, for instance, to see exactly what has changed between versions, or when you’ve made changes to core files to support custom business requirements.

Here’s how using the command line and svn.

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As you may know, the Marketing Website Generator is a free and open source membership management system supported by Intellispire.

One real issue we face when supporting any software is that there are thousands of different hosting environments that people may want to use. Supporting and testing the software on each one is impractical, if not impossible.

That’s why we’ve named …

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As, with most great inventions the first AWeber Plugin for Joomla came out of a need we had, internally: we wanted to be able to mail our forum members using our AWeber account.  Developers call writing software to do something you want done  “scratching an itch”.

Today, with the release of the AWeber Jomlink v3.1, I’m going to tell – for the first time – why it rocks.

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I’ve added some new ways to interact online, as well as some new reviews.

Here’s a some information about Eric’s Epic Firesale (which ends today, by the way), my Epic Firesale bonus, and the epic firsale site itself.

Jeremy Burns has released SCGM v10, and here’s a Source Code Gold Mine Review.

You can now connect with us online with facebook:

• Software Marketing on Facebook
• Personal page, Nick on Marketing
• The Intellispire Facebook page

And, as always, the Intellispire Twitter account keeps a running log of many of the activities.

It seems that Twitter changed it’s authentication method for applications to OAuth, and all my sites feeds stopped working. I’m not working on updating them … if you see this in twitter, then it worked!

Still not working. What about now?

We’re merging some of the software from Eric’s Epic Fire Sale with the Marketing Website Generator MMS software to make it very easy for you to build your own software empire.

Check out our epic fire sale bonus page to find out if you qualify for the bonus.

I’ll have more to say once I finish reviewing the software … there’s a ton of good stuff here!

Joomla! 1.5.20 has just been released. This is the
latest and most secure version of Joomla available.

Pro Subscribers upgrade quickly:

#1) Login to your Joomla! Administrator
#2) Backup your site!
#3) select Components | Add Software
#4) Click the green “Upgrade to J!1.5.20″ button
#5) Go have some fun, your update is complete!

If you do not have a pro subscription, either purchase
online (discount available this weekend), or spend your
weekend upgrading the old fashioned way:

http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrade_Instructions

SPECIAL DISCOUNT!
Upgrade to Pro this weekend, and receive 25% off:

http://www.intellispire.com/web/pro-order.html

AND be eligible to receive the 1.6 version
of the updater when it is released!

Use promotion code “JOOMLA” for your discount
on the order form:

http://www.intellispire.com/web/pro-order.html

A customer wrote:

I need a way for that script to register people in different aweber
mailing list based on the landing page they do to. So for example if
they see product A,  subscribe  would sign them up for
mailing group A. In they visit product B and click subscribe they
would sign up for mailing group B.

Here’s a solution:
The way you would set that up with AWeber Jomlink signup form:

1. Create multiple AWeber lists
2. Create a new FORM for each list. You need the meta_web_form_id and the unit fields
3. Create a new AWeber Module per list: Joomla -> Extensions | Module Manager;Click New
4. Choose JomLink AWeber Signup Form
5. Enter the fields from the form, customize as necessary, including the module position
6. In the menu assignment, select “Select Menu Item(s) from the List”
   choose the landing page(s) that you would like this particular form to appear on
7. Save

Repeat for as many landing pages as you’d like.

Note this registers them for the AWeber list, it does not sign them up at the website.