Greek translation for K2

Recently I fully translated the well known component for Joomla called K2 (version 2.3) in the Greek language. You may download the latest Greek translation package here. The installation file is packed in ZIP format and contains both the translation for the backend as well for the frontend. All you have to do is to install the translation package with Joomla's own installer (Extensions > Install/Uninstall).

Greek translation for Kunena Forum

Some days ago I fully translated the well known Forum component for Joomla called Kunena (version 1.5.12) in the Greek language. My translation was based on a previous translation by Sakis Economou (dated on 24/02/2010); on top of that I translated all new strings and old strings that weren't translated at all, corrected some mistakes and last but not least I designed all the important icons from scratch, that match exactly the default Kunena's template!

Bug in Joomla's file libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php

A week ago I was testing 2 well-known Joomla CCK Components JoomlaWorks K2 and YOOtheme's Zoo 2.0. Since I wanted to test them how they do with multilingual content I wrote first a couple of articles in Greek language and set some tags (also in Greek). The tags which had the Greek letter "ρ" in them didn't behave as they should; what I mean, when I clicked on them they displayed an empty content page (no articles were found), although there were articles tagged with them! I was wondering what the problem could be..

I contacted the support Forums for both K2 and YOOtheme (no answer so far) and told them about that; Lefteris Kavadas from K2 Forum told me he found that the function _parseURL returns some undefined character when a tag has the letter "ρ" in it. I also started a thread at Joomla's official support Forum and asked if they could help (no answer so far).

I was so curious about that and investigated further..well it seems that there is a bug within Joomla's file libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php!

I changed the file libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php (Joomla 1.5.18) by commenting out the following lines of code: 744,745,769-773. In this way the function _parseURL parses the URL with the "old" way as if we were using an older version of PHP.. and guess what, the problem with the undefined character is solved! Now all tags that contain Greek letters (especially the ones with the "ρ" letter) work just fine.

I'm not sure if this fix works with all different versions of PHP (I tested it locally with XAMPP 1.7.3 - PHP 5.3.1 - Joomla 1.5.18), but I'm sure it will help people who had the same problem as I did.

Under development: new version of ValAddThis Plugin and Module

Under development are the new versions of both ValAddThis Plugin and Module.

Most important improvement in these new versions is the option of adding a "Facebook Like" button inside the AddThis Toolbox.