Question [Merged topic]The great Mootools/Javascript conflict discussion

Its not sad....
Joomla itself introduced the mootools 1.2.4 plugin as it obviously offers much more than old obsolete version.
Kunena just followed the Joomla's step which is good and fairly reasonable step to do.
This is not the passing and holding the ball on the other side of the court, its just how this stuff work.
Blame those component/module/plugin/template developers which dont comply with Joomla.
Its not Kunena's fault.

Fenrir wrote: It's sad that I will have to wait for my extension's creators to update to mootools 1.2 before I upgrade from kunena 1.5 to kunena 1.6

If I would want to make a site based only on forum, I better choose phpBB, what I want from kunena is to be a forum solution to be integrated with my whole site, not to run as standalone.

I believe a solution to this problem could be to activate the mootools 1.2 only on my forum section, and not the whole site. But with the standard plugin of MTupgrade from Joomla, I don't know how to do this.


So sad... I can't find a good forum component for joomla 1.5, because all of them causes troubles. The best I've found is kunena 1.5, but 1.6 is a forum component that seems that will work better with joomla 1.6 when it arrives later this year (or next year, I dunno).

Sorry but what is your problem exactly? I cannot find a post from you with a request for help (sorry if I missed that)
Most of the conflicts can be easily solved with access to a site, and cleaning up old and or bad code.

If you want help, please ask for it, but please refrain from generic comments like that.

See, had we taken the latest jquery library and shipped it with our component, it would be the very same issue. The problem is not mootools vs jquery, the problem is that there is way too much overuse of them. In reality modules, plugins and components should not even be allowed to load extra frameworks. This is the reason why there is so much incompatibility out there. You can have 3 modules each loading their own version of jquery and with #2 of them the page will already be broken.
The last year we have been chasing jquery issues like that. I strongly believe that Kunena - by going full Joomla and using the built in framework - has done the right thing. We also minify all our js and css - something you expect from every extension out there - yet 99% dont do it and don't care.

The community here will gladly help everybody cleanup their site installs, so new versions can be installed, you just have to ask for help.

I am asking for help

I am using the template Yoo Explorer and i just upgraded my Kunena to 1.6
IT looks beautiful and i simply must have this forum, however I have the same conflicting mootool issue where the bbcode does not display or the menu tabs

Please help, I really do not want to lose my template as it is part of my branding
I love love love the new Kunena Forum and do not want to downgrade neither

I will appreciate all the help I can get :kiss:

G'day, lulu, and welcome to Kunena ...

The main problem, as you may have gathered, is not Kunena; the main problem lies with the developers of software that bundle their own Javascript libraries that clobber Joomla's standard Javascript libraries. Kunensa just uses the standard Joomla Javascript libraries.

But we're not here to engage in a tedious finger-pointing game of who's done what with what. My best recommendation to you is to contact YOOtheme ( www.youtheme.com ), where you paid good money for their product, and tell them your story. Ask them if they are able to recommend a way for you to use the YOO Explorer theme with the Joomla Mootools 1.2.4 library and let's hear what they have to say.

If you use sef component, please upgrade it to last version. Then BBcode toolbar will work
SURPRISE! It is simple

adminthptngochoi: Could you please tell us,

• the name and version of the SEF component that you were using before that was giving you the problem; and
• what version are you using now?

Thank you.