Joomla Mockups Galore

So the past week was all about building the mockups that the design group puts in the project wiki page. So far everything is going along pretty smooth. The only issue that I came across so far was the positioning of the boxes for each tab. My Joomla template has two columns for content. The left side is for other menu items such as the user menu and the latest discussion module. I still have no luck fixing the logout problem I have with the UH CAS login. I've looked at the php files for the external login module that I'm using the CAS with and I can't seem to find where it's doing the logout part. The good news is that I've read the support document from ITS and there might be an easier way to fix the logout bug that I'm having. Fixing this bug is still in my top priority for this milestone.

Another thing that I tried this past week was setting up the mockup site to a host server. I signed up for a free web hosting account at http://www.000webhost.com/. Setting up the database part was a cake. I simply exported my local database and imported it on the host server. Uploading the actual site files was the part that gave me hell. I ended up working on it for about 5 hours straight trying to get everything to work. Basically FTP won't upload some of the files from my machine. Still not sure why it wasn't letting me. I ended up trying the One Click site restore option from the host server. I had to zip the site files from my machine and upload it that way. The problem was the host would extract the directory on its own folder and not in the public folder. What I had to do was use the server's GUI setup to move the files out of that directory and into the public directory. So after about 5 hours and many trial and error, I finally have the test mockup up and running in the host server. I did this only for testing and learning purposes. This was not required for the project but I think it's a good way to learn things for future work. Stay tuned for more updates :)

-David Joel Lazaro