I’m pretty new to Joomla, this page came up as the top rank when googling “joomla publisher frontend” (congratulations); referring to your answer to starsky re: publishing on the front end:

“You’ll need to set your user as Publisher or higher and link to a category page in the user menu.”

This made no sense to me. There’s no such option in the user manager. Alternatively, if you were referring to adding an ARTICLE > USER link in an existing menu, I still can’t see what you’re talking about. I’m interested in providing a link that a publisher can click on to display ALL articles that need publishing, no matter what category or section (or uncategorised) they currently belong to. Otherwise, going off your second suggestion, it just seems you publish only as you encounter them whilst perusing the site (which sounds too random to be true) and the universe hates randomness.

I know there’s a simpler answer in there somewhere, can you take a crack at this? Much appreciated.

@Paul: this is the second time I’ve seen someone vent their frustration at one individual who’s trying to help. Granted there’s a bit of a steeper learning curve to get up and running with Joomla, but there’s way more complex products out there with worst documentation, ain’t fair to be taking it out on guys like Dustin. There’s no conspiracy or elitism-by-design at play, just takes persistence (things finally clicked at 12:30am after three/four sleepless nights figuring all this stuff out). On the bright side, you were very nice about it (you should’ve seen the other guy).

Cheers,

Harley

Sessions and cookie are stored in a very similar way.
The main difference is the simple fact users can’t edit their own sessions as they are server based.

As a rule, this makes them more secure when dealing with sensetive information.

A great comparative article, thanks!

thanks for the list

http://njlinux.blogspot.com/2008/03/configuring-joomla-on-plesk-box.html

the correct form:
find httpdocs -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

thanks for posting this great tutorial. I am still wondering about one thing: How can I activate the frontend editing functionality whithout having to login in the frontend. I have created a site for a friend of mine and he doesnt need a login box. When i log in as the administrator and switch to the frontend view the symbols for editing do not appear. How can I make them appear?
Thanks for your help and best regards from Germany…
Stefan