By a peculiar coincidence, I came across this effect on the home page of a website built with Joomla! 3. Something undefined about it caught my attention and so I started investigating the possibility of using it within Joomla! 5.

A complete overhaul of the entire code proved to be necessary, but in the end the module became perfectly functional and compatible with Joomla! 5. Some fine display details have even been corrected, other fine details may still require some adjustments in the legacy code, but as it stands now the module is stable and can be used with full success.

The weirdest thing I happen to found during the code conversion, however, is related to the module naming.

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Important:
If there is an old Aixeena Ticker module already existing on a Joomla version 3 installation that itself needs to be upgraded to version 5 or later, the old module must first be uninstalled, otherwise duplication issues may occur in the database due to the module name, which is very likely to have gotten confused over time. See the story about the module naming issue a little further down.

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(i) The module file

The Aixeena Ticker module consist of a single .zip archive file. Depending on the installation method chosen, you need to download the file, or no file at all !

Method 1 (recommended): download the file on your PC

In a sense, this is a safe method from the user’s perspective, because once the file has been downloaded, there is no more dependency on this originating site – like, for example, in case my web server happens to go offline for whatever reason.

• • Download the mod_aixeenaticker_5.0.0.zip zip file

Then:

• on the J5 admin page, go to Install Extensions, the Upload Package File tab, then drag and drop there the .zip file just downloaded
• wait for the success-like message to show up (it shouldn’t take long to complete)

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Method 2 (most convenient): use only an install URL

No need to download anything, just enter the address into the proper field. The module will be installed automatically from my web server by the Joomla! system.

Steps:

• on the J5 admin page, go to Install Extensions, the Install from URL tab, then copy and paste there this address:
  https://www.secarica.ro/dev/joomla/aixeena/mod_aixeenaticker_5.0.0.zip
• Note: this address (and, thus, the target file) is in fact the same as the link address from method 1 above, so it is safe to copy that link instead.
• click the Check & Install button
• wait for the success-like message to show up (it shouldn’t take long to complete)

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Notes:
Current module version is 5.0.0 (click here for versions history)
The software is published under the GPLv2 license.

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(ii) What does work well and what might not be perfect

Things going as expected:

*** Under construction ***

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(iii) Weird facts about the naming of this module

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