Auser Manager to work as in it's Demo!

To make Auser manager, which is a Joomla! component, to work same as in it's demo you might need some reading on the web other than downloading Auser component from www.alikonweb.it . This is because Auser Manager itself uses some plug-ins like SecureForm which gives the CAPTCHA facility, a visual verification of an image. So you need to install SecureForm Plug-in and enable it.

Not only that, in the demo you can see some Ajax base field validations, which you won’t get with Auser manager installation. available at the moment (Moment of this article is getting published). What is in the demo is a beta version under development and testing. So the version with Ajax messages is not available for download at the moment.
But there is a workaround. To have all those ajax messages you need some more work to do. Get FormCheck by MooTools which is a set of Java script libraries. This allows you to add ajax messages to any form fields in your web site. With some code editing of Auser manager you’ll be able to get the functionality as is in Auser manager demo.
Good Luck!

How to upgrade your existing Joomla 1.5.x to Joomal 1.5.8.

When I had to upgrade one of my existing Joomla web sites to the latest version of Joomla, I went through the installation guide and read everything under “Upgrading 1.5 from an existing 1.5x version”, and thought why can’t we say it in simple and straight forward manner.
So here it is...

To be in safe side take a backup of your Joomla site, means take a copy of your Joomla web folder, then go to http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3365 which has the list of updates that are relevant to your installation of Joomla(Check your Joomla version in Admin Area -> Help-> System Info).

Once you download the correct upgrade file for your Joomla site, what you need to do is extract the compressed file to a location that you want (May be to your Desktop). Then what you have to do is go in to that folder and copy all files and folders in it to clipboard. After that go to your existing Joomla web site location (FTP to the server)and paste everything to you Joomla folder. Overwrite whatever existing files in the web folder with the new files.

Now your Joomla web site is upgraded from Joomla 1.5.x to Joomla 1.5.8 (Latest at the moment)