Joomla

This is the University Computing Service's Joomla support package. This provides a level of integration between Joomla and Raven and lookup. It consists of three extensions which work well together but which could in principle be used separately:

• A joomla-ucamwebauth plugin, which supports authentication (to both the website frontend and the administrative backend) using the Ucam WebAuth protocol used by Raven. This plugin will work alongside other Joomla authentication mechanisms, so it is possible for example for University users to authenticate using Raven while others use local accounts that only exist on the Joomla server.

• A mod_ucamlogin module, which provides a standard Joomla frontend user authentication form that includes a 'Raven Login' button either in place of or alongside the standard Joomla userid/password fields.

• A joomla-lookup plugin, which will automatically create new users and/or synchronise existing users based on data (currently full name and email address) from lookup.

The current (v. 0.6) release is largely a pilot to enable real Joomla users to try it out to see if it provides facilities that are useful to them. Feedback, either to the cs-raven-discuss mailing list (preferred) or direct to raven-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk, from anyone actually trying or using these extensions would be welcome.

• Documentation
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Please note:

1. These plugins do not currently form part of the officially-supported Raven service.
2. The release of these plugins should not be taken as implying that the CS in any way approves or recommends Joomla for use in the University, or that the CS is able to provide Joomla support (currently we know little more about Joomla than is needed to create authentication plugins!).