I'm having trouble finding where to setup the paypal plugin for the K2 store. I'm reading through the k2 store documentation and it says this plugin is included but when I search for it in my plugins, it is not there.. i upgraded the store to the current version and paypal is still not there. What am I doing wrong?

I installed the quickstart of the toreda template.

Okay bit of an update and a backwards step.

To solve the problem I used the code below to display the message when a user had not entered any items for the module to display to prevent a blank area.

This has been working great, however, with the upgrade to version 2.6.8 (from 2.6.7) it does not work anymore even though this code was in a module template to stop it being overwritten.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Hi Lefteris,

Thank you for your reply.

Indeed I have upgraded to K2 2.6.8.

Most of the website content is in K2 (of course :) ). The first use case is:

I created a menu in which the menu items are linked to individual K2 Items. From within a K2 Item I link from text to a menu item so I can get a URL with the menu item alias. However the menu item alias is replaced by the K2 ID.

The second use case is:

I have also tried linking directly from text in one K2 Item to another K2 Item. The K2 Item alias or title is replaced with the K2 ID.

I'm not sure how to answer your question about whether the links are generated by K2. Certainly they appear to be since the category and id numbers are from K2 and I have no special third party product to generate links in this context. I do have other third party extensions that I suppose could interfere but they do not have sh404SEF parameters that I've set.

I'd be happy to send you the website link in a private message.

Kind regards,
Red Deer

Hi,

my name is Valentina.
I'm using Joomla 2.5.19 and k2 2.6.8 version.

I get a very bad issue.
When i've upgrade k2 version at 2.6.8 i got a bug in my back end.
In the previous version of k2 i can select the category i'd like to display in the module.

I attached the right back end version (k2 2.6.7) and the bad one.
I've tried to unistall and re-install it.
I've erased browser cache, site cache, i've tried from another pc, i've also tried a different back end layout..
Any solution?
In my opinion, it's a very bad problem.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

Hi

I was in a hurry, and didn't think things through....

well, I didn't have access to the old joomla site, so I didn't see or notice it was built mostly using K2 items

now I went ahead and migrated using SP upgrade with success...

then I get a 404 error on the front page and start to check it out, and see that most of the Menu items are K2

I see that I can migrate the K2 content.....BUT

my question is, can I do it AFTER I have done the Joomla files?

greetings FB

Solved!

Basically, for anyone upgrading using SP Upgrade with third-party extensions, use the extensions transfer option rather than the database transfer option because the latter method, despite seeming to work (I had no trouble with some other extensions) does not fully convert the format. This is why some information was visible and some not - the K2 parameters were ignored. Here is a link to the SP Upgrade instructions on this provided to me by the developer - applicable to Joomla 3.2

I hope other people find this thread useful.

Thanks all

Adam

I have just solved the problem of clearing the SPUpgrade history log which has enabled me to do a clean re-transfer of all of the K2 items and categories via SPUpgrade (in case anyone needs to know, the item view has to match that of K2), but unfortunately still no success with either access level or parameters... I will carry on with the upgrade and leave this issue until last, otherwise just update the metadata manually via cut and paste (1000+ times!).

@Ankur Jain

Hi. Which editor are you using? You should upgrade to K2 2.6.8 or use the K2 development version from getk2.org/assets/get .

Please help!

I'm in the middle of a (slow, painful) upgrade from Joomla 1.5 to 3.2. The problem I have is that the K2 access level and parameters are not recognised even though they are transferred 100% intact to the DB. It wouldn't be much of an issue if it wasn't for the Metadata information, which is different for each item (the other parameters can be fixed easily enough by inheritance).

I really need to find a solution in order to avoid having to update over 1000 separate categories/items... I can fix the access level issue by doing a bulk change in the DB but this won't work for the individual Metadata information...

I've attached a PDF which shows the comparison between what's in the DB and what's in the Joomla backend.

I'd really appreciate some feedback asap, and have tried to make it as clear as possible in order to make it useful for other users.

Is there a way to override the back-end views of K2 and place them into the admin template's html directory?

The reason why I ask is because I just made some rather nice changes to the way the default items grid (/administrator/com_k2/views/items/tmpl/default.php to be specific) is displayed on back-end. I did this based on specific request by my client.

In order not to be affected by future K2 upgrades, I tried copying "/administrator/com_k2/views/items/tmpl/default.php" into to the "html" admin template's directory so that it reads the override like this: "adminTemplateDir/html/com_k2/views/items/tmpl/default.php".

It did not work for me. So:

1- is there a way to override the above (or any view template for that matter) to accomplish my intention?

Hy,

@2: "The switch to InnoDB does not apply to existing installations as we wanted to avoid any potential upgrade issues with folks using K2 on large websites with crappy hosts. Better safe than sorry... " - from Fotis-Blog.

Regards

I upgraded to k2 v2.6.8 and i noticed it did not change the database table type to InnoDB.

So, I ask:

1- Will there be an issue if I manually change the table types myself to InnoDB and is there something I shoyuld do after I change the type in order to have K2 tables be InnoDB for better performance?

2- What is the reason InnoDB only starts with new k2 installations?

Thank you.

Hello, I developed my website with K2 and miniK2.
Recently I discovered how new users were created, and used the domain to spam through mail, as I receive returned unknown mails...

I installed SecurityCheck, and at the first scan I see a lot of issues, mostly XSS (possible) attacks...
they all refer to /index.php and module com_k2.

Is there a safe way to delete all these attacks?
Should I remove k2 and reinstall it?? As the web site is strongly based on k2, uninstalling this module would require to recreate all the modules based on k2 content/items??
Should just upgrade to the new version resolve the issue??

I really have few knowledge of xss attacks, and how to eliminate them...

Thank you in advance

I have upgraded to v. 2.6.8 for my existing K2 installations. As I understand, new installations of K2 v.2.6.8 are installed with innodb tables but upgraded ones are left with the MyISAM tables. What would I need to do to convert to innodb tables? Thanks!

Nothing changed after upgrade to k2 2.6.8

Hi. This is an issue of JUpgrade which don't migrate the menu links correctly. It cannot be fixed in our side. The only solution is to do what Dave suggests.

There are several script files loaded there so probably this is a conflict with an other extension. Do you have any modules published in administration other than the Joomla! defaults? Also try to disable third-party system plugins until you find which one is causing the issue.

Hello,

I have a site with a lot of custom code that use k2 v 2.6.7. I see the upgrade to 2.6.8 but I can't find the package that include only the modify files from 2.6.7 to 2.6.8. Is it available?

Thanks

Thanks Lefteris and Douglas, the K2 Iems have had titles for nearly two years and have always worked fine until the upgrades.

I'll hide the error message for now with CSS, but that isn't really a good way to fix things ;)

Sorry for my late answer, i'm out of the city in the past days.
I'm not activate GZIP compression in global configuration never.
The screenshots are named Network 1 and 2.

Thanks for help