With Joomla 1.5 and VirtueMart 1.1 now stable and mature these will be the installations of choice for any new e-commerce website. Joomfish is now fully moved to version 2.0 but there does seem to be some confusion about what is needed for a successful Joomfish 2.0 integration with VirtueMart 1.1. Hopefully this article will help anyone wishing to do this.

Firstly make sure you have the latest releases of each of these packages installed. At the time of writing the version numbers are as here listed:

• Joomla 1.5.14
• VirtueMart 1.1.3
• Joomfish 2.0.3

Also make sure you have your required Joomla languages installed and configured. Also install the VirtueMart language pack which you can download from this link - VM Language Pack Extract the package and ftp it to your joomla_root/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages folder.

One Joomla table needs to have a field added to work with Joomfish so the following SQL Query needs to run usually via your phpMyAdmin interface. It only adds an extra integer field to the flam_vm_product_attribute_sku table.

The Query is as follows

  ALTER TABLE `flam_vm_product_attribute_sku` ADD `attribute_sku_id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY FIRST ;

Now you need the VirtueMart 1.1 Content Element package. The original is available at the moment from https://www.joomfish.net/forum/download/file.php?id=158 When you have the VirtueMart.1.1_Joomfish.2.0_ContentElementFiles.zip unpack it and ftp the files to your joomla_root/administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements folder.

Everything should now be working through your Joomfish Translate interface. For bugs refer to the mentioned Joomfish forum link