Basically, conflicts are caused by both Mootools and jQuery sharing the $ namespace. Mootools is notorious for not being a “good neighbor” and the result is a clash. jQuery however has a “no conflict” mode which allows it to work with other frameworks.

I’m about to launch a site where I use jQuery extensively in the frontend, and it has been a bit of headache since Joomla developers (for reasons I cannot understand) force Mootools on you in the frontend. In the end, I installed a special free plugin (which actually handles jQuery and “no conflict”). So far, so good.

Please advise in more of a step by step approach.

Step 1) Upload and unarchive the uploadify package to /uploadify (within joomla core).

Step 2) Go to template manager in Joomla Admin panel and select the default template you wish to modify..

Click “Edit HTML”

Add this exact line of code in your between your tags:

Add this exact line of code somewhere in your tag:

Click Save

Step 3) Create a new article

Insert exact code:

$(document).ready(function() {
$(“#fileUpload1″).fileUpload({
‘uploader’: ‘uploadify/uploader.swf’,
‘cancelImg’: ‘uploadify/cancel.png’,
‘script’: ‘uploadify/upload.php’,
‘folder’: ‘files’,
‘multi’: true,
‘buttonText’: ‘Select Files’,
‘checkScript’: ‘uploadify/check.php’,
‘displayData’: ‘speed’,
‘simUploadLimit’: 2
});
});

Click Save.

Step 4) Go to menu manager and create a new “Article Layout” menu item on your mainmenu titled “Upload Files” and direct it to the article that you created in Step 3)

*** This above described method isn’t working currently and I am posting this just to show how I tried to implement the Uploadify script and failed, looking to find the correct approach so if you have this working in Joomla, please explain your approach in this manner.

Thanks for your help.

To get this to work in joomla, what file did you place the “Script References” that you listed above in?

Do you have to modify joomla’s index.php? or the just your default templates’ index.php with the script references?

also, is the uploadify directory hosted in your root dir within joomla core?

Can you then put the placeholder div code () into an article and then link to that article through a menu item for this to work, as long as you dont have an editor strip it?

Just trying to get an exact method of step by step modifications made to get this working in joomla. Someone needs to make it into an extension already.

Thanks for your help.

Scott

Perhaps a run down of how you made that work?

Otherwise this page is useless. Users can just go to uplodify website and waste time reading there.

I’m able to do single upload and process the file, but cannot figuring the multiple files processing.

I’ve tried with reading the files from $_FILES array, but no luck.