PHP(Bangalore) with P K Priyadarshi: 2016

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Alternatvie word for Submit : Get Creative with Contact Form Button Text

Conversion rates actually increase if you use other terminology for the button text. According to Hubspot, you can increase your conversion rate by simply changing the text of the button, which is really easy to do.

So, what should you change to? Here are some quick tips for text you can use instead:

Alternative Contact Form Button Text

Contact Now
Free Consultation
Begin Inquiry
Free, No Obligation Consultation
Get Help Now
Grow your Business
Apply Now
Free Case Evaluation
Get Started Today
Do I Qualify?
Talk to Us

Alternative to “Download” or “Submit”

Download ___ Now (when offering a free download)
Get the _______ Now (download)
Get the Free ______ Guide
Access Now

Alternative to Online Services or Products Button Text

Free Registration
Create Account
Start my Free Trial
Start my Trial
Create an Account
Sign Up for _____.
Sign Up!
Try the New ________.

Alternative Newsletter Submit Button

Subscribe
Subscribe Now
Get Helpful Advice
Receive Tips Weekly
Keep up To Date
Get Notified

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Easy steps to install Laravel

Installation

Server Requirements

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements. Of course, all of these requirements are satisfied by the Laravel Homestead virtual machine, so it's highly recommended that you use Homestead as your local Laravel development environment.
However, if you are not using Homestead, you will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 5.6.4
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

Installing Laravel

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

Via Laravel Installer

First, download the Laravel installer using Composer:

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Make sure to place the $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin directory (or the equivalent directory for your OS) in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system.
Once installed, the laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify. For instance, laravel new blog will create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation with all of Laravel's dependencies already installed:

laravel new blog

Via Composer Create-Project

Alternatively, you may also install Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

php artisan serve

Of course, more robust local development options are available via Homestead and Valet.

Configuration

Public Directory

After installing Laravel, you should configure your web server's document / web root to be the public directory. The index.php in this directory serves as the front controller for all HTTP requests entering your application.

Configuration Files

All of the configuration files for the Laravel framework are stored in the config directory. Each option is documented, so feel free to look through the files and get familiar with the options available to you.

Directory Permissions

After installing Laravel, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run. If you are using the Homestead virtual machine, these permissions should already be set.

Application Key

The next thing you should do after installing Laravel is set your application key to a random string. If you installed Laravel via Composer or the Laravel installer, this key has already been set for you by the php artisan key:generate command.
Typically, this string should be 32 characters long. The key can be set in the .env environment file. If you have not renamed the .env.example file to .env, you should do that now. If the application key is not set, your user sessions and other encrypted data will not be secure!

Additional Configuration

Laravel needs almost no other configuration out of the box. You are free to get started developing! However, you may wish to review the config/app.php file and its documentation. It contains several options such as timezone and locale that you may wish to change according to your application.
You may also want to configure a few additional components of Laravel, such as:

Cache
Database
Session

Once Laravel is installed, you should also configure your local environment.

Saturday, 13 August 2016

HTML Codes - Table for ascii characters and symbols

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47	20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F	! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /	! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /	" &	space exclamation point double quotes number sign dollar sign percent sign ampersand single quote opening parenthesis closing parenthesis asterisk plus sign comma minus sign - hyphen period slash

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63	30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?	< >	zero one two three four five six seven eight nine colon semicolon less than sign equal sign greater than sign question mark

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79	40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F	@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O	@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O		at symbol

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95	50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F	P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _	P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _		opening bracket backslash closing bracket caret - circumflex underscore

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111	60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F	` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o	` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o		grave accent

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127	70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F	p q r s t u v w x y z { \| } ~	p q r s t u v w x y z { \| } ~		opening brace vertical bar closing brace equivalency sign - tilde (not defined in HTML 4 standard)

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143	80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F				(not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard)

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159	90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F				(not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard) (not defined in HTML 4 standard)

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175	A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF	¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯	¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯	¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯	non-breaking space inverted exclamation mark cent sign pound sign currency sign yen sign broken vertical bar section sign spacing diaeresis - umlaut copyright sign feminine ordinal indicator left double angle quotes not sign soft hyphen registered trade mark sign spacing macron - overline

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191	B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD BE BF	° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿	° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿	° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿	degree sign plus-or-minus sign superscript two - squared superscript three - cubed acute accent - spacing acute micro sign pilcrow sign - paragraph sign middle dot - Georgian comma spacing cedilla superscript one masculine ordinal indicator right double angle quotes fraction one quarter fraction one half fraction three quarters inverted question mark

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207	C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF	À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï	À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï	À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï	latin capital letter A with grave latin capital letter A with acute latin capital letter A with circumflex latin capital letter A with tilde latin capital letter A with diaeresis latin capital letter A with ring above latin capital letter AE latin capital letter C with cedilla latin capital letter E with grave latin capital letter E with acute latin capital letter E with circumflex latin capital letter E with diaeresis latin capital letter I with grave latin capital letter I with acute latin capital letter I with circumflex latin capital letter I with diaeresis

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223	D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF	Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß	Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß	Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß	latin capital letter ETH latin capital letter N with tilde latin capital letter O with grave latin capital letter O with acute latin capital letter O with circumflex latin capital letter O with tilde latin capital letter O with diaeresis multiplication sign latin capital letter O with slash latin capital letter U with grave latin capital letter U with acute latin capital letter U with circumflex latin capital letter U with diaeresis latin capital letter Y with acute latin capital letter THORN latin small letter sharp s - ess-zed

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239	E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF	à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï	à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï	à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï	latin small letter a with grave latin small letter a with acute latin small letter a with circumflex latin small letter a with tilde latin small letter a with diaeresis latin small letter a with ring above latin small letter ae latin small letter c with cedilla latin small letter e with grave latin small letter e with acute latin small letter e with circumflex latin small letter e with diaeresis latin small letter i with grave latin small letter i with acute latin small letter i with circumflex latin small letter i with diaeresis

ASCII			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255	F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF	ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ	ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ	ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ	latin small letter eth latin small letter n with tilde latin small letter o with grave latin small letter o with acute latin small letter o with circumflex latin small letter o with tilde latin small letter o with diaeresis division sign latin small letter o with slash latin small letter u with grave latin small letter u with acute latin small letter u with circumflex latin small letter u with diaeresis latin small letter y with acute latin small letter thorn latin small letter y with diaeresis

HTML 4.01, ISO 10646, ISO 8879, Latin extended A and B,
Browser support: Internet Explorer > 4, Netscape > 4

			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

338 339 352 353 376 402	152 153 160 161 178 192	Œ œ Š š Ÿ ƒ	Œ œ Š š Ÿ ƒ		latin capital letter OE latin small letter oe latin capital letter S with caron latin small letter s with caron latin capital letter Y with diaeresis latin small f with hook - function

			HTML	HTML
Dec	Hex	Symbol	Number	Name

8211 8212 8216 8217 8218 8220 8221 8222 8224 8225 8226 8230 8240 8364 8482	2013 2014 2018 2019 201A 201C 201D 201E 2020 2021 2022 2026 2030 20AC 2122	– — ‘ ’ ‚ “ ” „ † ‡ • … ‰ € ™	– — ‘ ’ ‚ “ ” „ † ‡ • … ‰ € ™	€	en dash em dash left single quotation mark right single quotation mark single low-9 quotation mark left double quotation mark right double quotation mark double low-9 quotation mark dagger double dagger bullet horizontal ellipsis per thousand sign euro sign trade mark sign

HTML Symbols short codes

Some Mathematical Symbols Supported by HTML

Char	Number	Entity	Description
∀	∀	∀	FOR ALL
∂	∂	∂	PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
∃	∃	∃	THERE EXISTS
∅	∅	∅	EMPTY SETS
∇	∇	∇	NABLA
∈	∈	∈	ELEMENT OF
∉	∉	∉	NOT AN ELEMENT OF
∋	∋	&ni;	CONTAINS AS MEMBER
∏	∏	∏	N-ARY PRODUCT
∑	∑	∑	N-ARY SUMMATION

Some Greek Letters Supported by HTML

Char	Number	Entity	Description
Α	Α	Α	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
Β	Β	Β	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER BETA
Γ	Γ	Γ	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
Δ	Δ	Δ	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
Ε	Ε	Ε	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON
Ζ	Ζ	Ζ	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA

Some Other Entities Supported by HTML

Char	Number	Entity	Description
©	©	©	COPYRIGHT SIGN
®	®	®	REGISTERED SIGN
€	€	€	EURO SIGN
™	™	™	TRADEMARK
←	←	←	LEFTWARDS ARROW
↑	↑	↑	UPWARDS ARROW
→	→	→	RIGHTWARDS ARROW
↓	↓	↓	DOWNWARDS ARROW
♠	♠	&spades;	BLACK SPADE SUIT
♣	♣	&clubs;	BLACK CLUB SUIT
♥	♥	&hearts;	BLACK HEART SUIT
♦	♦	&diams;	BLACK DIAMOND SUIT

50 Drupal Tips and Tricks by PKP

Drupal admin and configuration:

Create a "HTML help" block and assign it to appear on only "node/*/edit" and "node/add/*"
Use the "edit permissions" link on admin/user/roles to get a single column
Use the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to "Populate Form Fields" on the access page for the admin role
Use "site:drupal.org {search terms}" to search all of drupal.org with Google. Set up a Firefox shortcut so you can type "dru [your search]" to search Drupal. Also api.drupal.org/apis/{search_term}
When using pathauto to alias usernames, don't let users change their usernames.
Use PathAuto and Path Redirect together to redirect old aliases to the new ones. Search engines will love you.
Use Global Redirect to make sure home page is "/" and current page doesn't have an alias.
When creating PathAuto template, keep uniqueness in mind -- perhaps add a date to your blog and news entries.
Move the "My Account" menu item by creating a custom menu item at 'user'
Use update_status module along with cvs_deploy & cvs tags to manage sites
Use ImageCache to resize images. It's worth the poor u.i. and configuration challenges. Tastes best with ImageField, CCK, and Views.
Turn any CCK type with an imagefield into a photocast with ConTemplate
Use Automatic Node Titles whenever you want to have separate (CCK) fields for first name and last name, but you want the node title to contain the full name.
Use SimpleMenu to remove the need for an admin block on the page.
Set your site in "offline mode" when doing Drupal upgrades, to ensure that your end users are never exposed to any funky errors.
Use locale.module to change English text into other English text. Example: change "Forums" to "Message Boards". Slight performance issue for high-traffic sites. In Drupal 6, there's a new "locale lite" feature to translate only a few pieces of interface text without the overhead of locale module itself. Check the bottom of default.settings.php for more details.
Use views + views_fastsearch to build "section search" or custom advanced search pages

Drupal.org

Enable the contributor block on drupal.org. This will give you access to all kinds of useful links, as well as tell you how close we are to releasing Drupal 6.
Check out the Drupal Planet at http://drupal.org/planet to keep up to date on exciting developments and what various folks are working on.
Post suggestions or bugs you find with Drupal or contributed modules to the issue queues, not on the forums. They're much more likely to get attention from developers there.
Check out http://drupal.org/node/10259 for some tips on posting to the issue queue, including how to make a good bug report/feature request, how patches get reviewed, and so on.
Head to http://drupal.org/videocasts to view a categorized archive of various Drupal videos and presentations on a variety of subjects.
Sign up for the security announcements at http://drupal.org/security to keep on top of your updates!
Ninja search #1: Negative words. Eliminate the words you don't want with a minus in front: -Joomla
Ninja search #2: Content types: type:forum or type:image etc.
Ninja search #3: Phrase search. Put exact phrases in "", as in "Drupal rocks".

Theming

Set up a quick "wireframe" site using Zen or another simple theme. Show this and the HTML it outputs to your web designer before they start working. Point out items like tabs and messages.
Change your administration theme when working on a new theme
Get to know Firebug for ALL front-end development: JavaScript and CSS!
<?php var_dump(get_defined_vars()); ?>inside any template file to see what variables are available.
Create a hook_link_alter() and add a "More..." link to the end of the Teaser text while removing the Read more link
The format_interval() function is cool. It outputs "X minutes Y seconds ago", or similar...
Accommodate page caching by substituting dynamic page elements in your theme. If the user is not logged in, use absolute values such as "posted on {date} at {time}", rather than relative such as "{X} hours, {Y} seconds ago".

Views

Use theme('view', {arguments}) to embed a view anywhere in your theme's template.php or .tpl.php files
Use the custom argument handling code in a View to change anything about a view: filters, number displayed, fields, and of course arguments. You can alter these items with or without conditionals. Change the number of columns in a grid view; change the number of items that appear if the "feed" argument is present; etc... (see #36 to see the view object)
Use "promote to front page" / "sticky" to do other things using Views... see also Views Bookmarks
Use Views + Taxonomy Redirect to use a custom view for each vocabulary's listing pages.
Use print_r($view) inside the 'Argument code' field of a View to see the view object. see #33 (oops)
Give any number of 'block'-only views the same page URL, and their [more] links will all point to the same page.

JavaScript

Translate your javascript by doing <?php drupal_add_js(array('my_module' => array('my_string' => t('My string'))), 'setting') ?>Get translated strings from javascript: Drupal.settings.my_module.mystring
Same with urls: <?php drupal_add_js(array('my_module' => array('my_url' => url('node/10'))), 'setting') ?>It's more reliable and less work than using $base_path and Clean URL setting.

Drupal Development and Coding

DON'T HACK DRUPAL
Many IDEs (Zend, Komodo, Eclipse) will parse Drupal's code base and give you autocomplete and documentation on the function names
Run a local copy of api.drupal.org (using api.module) -- parse contrib modules! Documentation here: http://drupal.org/node/26669
Figure out arg(), you won't be sorry.
Use $_GET['q'] anywhere in your site to get the real Drupal path (not what's in the menu bar)
Find out if the current user is logged in: <?php if ($GLOBALS['user']->uid) {/* the user is logged in */} ?>
In Drupal 6, the contrib Schema module will generate a full-documented list of Drupal's tables. See http://jaspan.com/drupal-6s-self-documenting-database-schema and http://drupal.org/node/184586.
Use cvs annotate to track down the hows and whys of a particular line of code. View a how-to at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/cvs_annotate_or_what_the_heck_were_they_thinking
Coder module can not only be used to check over code for coding standards compliance, but can also be used to notify you of things that need to be done to your module to upgrade it to the next Drupal version.
On api.drupal.org, you can use the "List references" tab on any function to view where else in the source it's called, as well as what other functions are called by the function you're looking at. This can be helpful if you have a question about how a function is used.

Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio

Window Management

Drag Off Floating Tab Wells	Ctrl+click for multi-select
Maximize Floating Window	Double-click on title bar
Re-dock Floating Window	Ctrl+double-click title bar
Close Active Document	Ctrl+F4
Show Open File List	Ctrl+Alt+Down
Show All Floating Windows	Ctrl+Shift+M

Window Shortcuts

Move/Dock Floating Windows	Win+Left / Win+Right
Maximize/Minimize Windows	Win+Up / Win+Down
Show Jump List	Win+Alt+n
Start New Instance	Win+Shift+n
Switch Between Windows	Win+n

Visual Studio Search

Solution Explorer Search	Ctrl+;
Place Focus in Search box in any tool window	Alt+` when the tool window has focus
Quick Launch	Ctrl+Q
Quick Launch Scope Results	@opt Options @cmd Commands @mru Most recently used @doc Open documents
Search in Tools Options	Ctrl+E

Editor Find

Quick Find	Ctrl+F
Quick Find Next Result	Enter
Quick Find Previous Result	Shift+Enter
Quick Find Expand Drop Down	Alt+Down
Dismiss Find	Esc
Quick Replace	Ctrl+H
Quick Replace Replace Next	Alt+R
Quick Replace Replace All	Alt+A
Find in Files	Ctrl+Shift+F
Replace in Files	Ctrl+Shift+H

Code Editor

IntelliSense Suggestion Mode	Ctrl+Alt+Space (Toggle)
Force Show IntelliSense	Ctrl+J
Smart Tags	Ctrl+.
Snippet Picker	Ctrl+K,X or ?,Tab (VB)
Surround With	Ctrl+K,S
Show Quick Info	Ctrl+K,I
Navigate To	Ctrl+,
Go To Definition	F12
Peek Definition	Alt+F12
Go To Definition Stack	Ctrl+Shift+8 (Back), Ctrl+Shift+7 (Forward)
Navigate Highlighted References	Ctrl+Shift+Up (Previous), Ctrl+Shift+Down (Next)
Editor Zoom	Ctrl+Shift+> (In), Ctrl+Shift+< (Out)
Block Selection	Hold Alt and drag mouse, Shift+Alt+Arrow Keys
Move Line Up/Down	Alt+Up / Alt+Down
Peek Definition	Alt+F12
Close the Peek Definition window	Esc
Promote the Peek Definition window to a regular document tab	Ctrl+Alt+Home
Navigate between multiple Peek Definition windows	Ctrl+Alt+- and Ctrl+Alt+=
Navigate between multiple Peek results	F8 and Shift+F8
Toggle between the code editor window and the Peek Definition window	Shift+Esc

Toolbars

Add Buttons	Click toolbar overflow button
Find Combo in Standard toolbar	Ctrl+D
Find Textbox Command Mode	Type “>”
Create new alias	>alias NewAlias Command

Debugging

Start Debugging	F5
Stop Debugging	Shift+F5
Restart Debugging	Ctrl+Shift+F5
Step Over	F10
Step Into	F11
Step Out	Shift+F11
Run To Cursor	Ctrl+F10
Set Next Statement	Ctrl+Shift+F10
Set and Toggle Breakpoint	F9
Disable Breakpoint	Ctrl+F9
Immediate Window	Ctrl+Alt+I
Immediate Window Command Mode	Type “>”
Immediate Window Clear Buffer	>cls
Immediate Window Print Value	?varname

What version of Joomla! should you use?

First of all, you may want to check which version of Joomla! is running on your website.
Check for the latest Joomla! CMS version. If you are not on the latest release, read the release notes to see if you need to upgrade. If a release is being made in order to address security issues then it is strongly advised that you upgrade as soon as possible. You can see the release history of each series in the table below. Click the version history link in the notes column to find details on exact release date, release notes and package and MD5s.

Normally, you should use the latest version of Joomla! for a new site unless you have a specific reason not to.
The latest version can be downloaded from Joomla! download page.
Make sure you subscribe to the Joomla! Security Announcements feed. This RSS feed is used to make announcements, including the availability of new releases, that could affect the security of your site. You have the option to subscribe to this feed by RSS or email.
If you are running an earlier release of the current version (for example, you are running 3.1.6 and the current version is 3.4.1), you should upgrade to the current version. Each minor release fixes a number of bugs and/or security issues. It is always good practice to upgrade to the latest maintenance version as a first step in troubleshooting a problem and fixing any newly discovered security issues.

Joomla! CMS versions

CMS Version	Available	Support		End of Life	Upgrade Type	Notes	Latest Release
CMS Version	Available	Bugs	Security	End of Life	Upgrade Type	Notes	Latest Release
1.5				Sept 2012	Migration to 2.5	Plan to migrate to 2.5 now Joomla 1.5 version history	EOL at 1.5.26
1.6				Aug 2011	One-click to 2.5	Upgrade to 2.5 now Joomla 1.6 version history	1.6.6
1.7				Feb 2012	One-click to 2.5	Upgrade to 2.5 now Joomla 1.7 version history	1.7.5
2.5				December 31st, 2014	One-click to 3.x	Upgrade to 3.6.2 now Joomla 2.5 version history	2.5.28
3.0				May 2013	One-click to 3.1	You should use the one click upgrade Joomla 3.0 version history	3.0.4
3.1				Dec 2013	One-click to 3.2	You should use the one click upgrade Joomla 3.1 version history	3.1.6
3.2				Oct 2014^[1]	One-click to 3.3	You should upgrade your server's PHP to 5.3.10 or greater and upgrade to 3.3 Joomla 3.2 version history	3.2.7
3.3				3.4 release	One-click	You should use the one click upgrade Joomla 3.3 version history	3.3.6
3.4				3.5 release	One-click	Recommended for all new installs Joomla 3.4 version history	3.4.8
3.5				3.6 release	One-click	Recommended for all new installs Joomla 3.5 version history	3.5.1
3.6^[2]				3.7 release	One-click	Recommended for all new installs Joomla! 3.6 version history	3.6.2
3.7^[2]	to define^[2]^[3]	-	-	3.8 release	One-click
...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
4.0	2016^[3]	-	-

Included External Libraries

A Joomla! installation contain external libraries which are included with Joomla! CMS version releases. These external libraries are not part of the core code. Please read the Notes section as they may contain more information, such as a external library version change released with a maintenance release.

External Libraries by Joomla Release

CMS Version	CMS Version Supported	Mootools	Mootools More	jQuery	jQuery UI (Core, Widget, Mouse, Position, and Sortable)	Bootstrap	Simple Pie	PHP Mailer	PHP UTF-8	IDNA Convert	Rapid Application Development (RAD) Framework Akeeba's Framework on Framework(FOF)	password _compat^[4]	lessphp	random _compat^[5]
2.5		1.4.5^[6]	1.4.0.1	N/A^[7]	N/A^[7]	N/A^[7]	1.2	5.2.1	0.5	N/A^[8]	N/A^[9]	N/A^[10]	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.0		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.8.1	1.8.23	2.1.0	1.2	5.2.1	0.5	N/A^[8]	N/A^[9]	N/A^[10]	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.1		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.8.3	1.8.23	2.1.0	1.2^[13]	5.2.3	0.5	N/A^[8]	N/A^[9]	N/A^[10]	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.1.2		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.8.3	1.8.23	2.3.2^[14]	1.2^[13]	5.2.6	0.5	0.8.0	N/A^[9]	N/A^[10]	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.2		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.10.2^[15]	1.9.2	2.3.2^[14]	1.2^[13]	5.2.6	0.5	0.8.0	2.1	1.0.3	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.3		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.11.1^[15]	1.9.2	2.3.2^[14]	1.2^[13]	5.2.8	0.5	0.8.0	2.1	1.0.3	N/A^[11]	N/A^[12]
3.4		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.11.3^[15]	1.9.2	2.3.2^[14]	1.2^[13]	5.2.9	0.5	0.8.0	2.4.3	1.0.4	0.3.9	N/A^[12]
3.5		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.11.3^[15]	1.9.2	2.3.2^[14]	1.2^[13]	5.2.14	0.5	0.8.0	2.4.3	1.0.4	0.5.0	1.0.10
3.6		1.4.5	1.4.0.1	1.12.4^[15]	1.9.2	2.3.2^[14]	1.3.1^[13]	5.2.14	0.5	0.8.0	2.4.3	1.0.4	0.5.0	1.4.1
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Joomla! versions explained

Joomla!

3.6.2

Stable Version

This page provides a summary of the current development strategy published on 25 April 2014. All Joomla versions released before 25 April 2014 have been developed according to previous release and support cycle. You should read the full text of the Joomla development strategy for a more detailed explanation.
Joomla! is developed following Semantic Versioning (2.0.0). The use of LTS (Long Term Support) and STS (Short Term Support) is no longer relevant or observed. The terms found directly below will be used for clarity. You should understand these terms and their meanings.

supported - latest minor version(s) of a major version will receive patches which will include bug and security fixes
current - the youngest or 'latest' major.x.x officially released version
legacy - any major.minor.patch version(s) which are not the current version^[16]
stable - major version ready for use in a production environment implied with current and legacy^[17]
EOS - an acronym for 'end of support' which indicates no further patches will be released for bugs or security fixes
EOL - an acronym for 'end of life' which indicates the same meaning as EOS^[18]

Each major version of Joomla! is supported by The Joomla! Project^TM for a limited amount of time, begenning from the initial date of its official release. Joomla will actively develop each major version for a minimum of 2 years. This may be followed by continued development of a major version as per scheduled on a major version's roadmap.^[19] A short summary would be:

each major version will have a minimum of 4 years of support
you should always use or update to the latest major version's minor.patch
each minor version update released is backwards compatible with the previous minor version of the same major version^[20]

Please use the Joomla! CMS Development Roadmap or the Joomla! CMS versions chart to determine the estimated EOS (end of support) for each major.minor version(s) or the entire major version.

Version Numbering Explained

The version identifiers for Joomla follow a three level numerical convention where the levels are defined by the software change significance.

[major].[minor].[patch]

These 3 levels are defined as:

An increment in the major version identifier indicates a break in backward compatibility.
An increment in the minor version identifier indicates the addition of new features or a significant change to existing features.
An increment in the patch version identifier indicates that bugs have been fixed.

Examples

You are using Joomla version 3.3.6. This means your version is major version 3, minor version 3, patch version 6. If a patch is released for 3.3.6, it would increase your Joomla version to 3.3.7. If a new minor version for major version 3 is released, your new Joomla version would become 3.4.0. This page will always show the current stable supported version of Joomla, including the minor and patch, in the top right corner.