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DocumentationNorrCompetition
  • 🚀Getting started
    • Technical Requirements
    • Installation and Updates
  • 🛠️Configuration
    • Component Options
    • General
    • Contests
    • Contest
    • Entries
    • Entry
    • Categories
    • Category
    • Images
    • Comments
    • Contest Form
    • Permissions
  • 🖼️Contests
    • Managing Contests
    • Creating Contest
    • Contest Layout Options
    • Closing Contest
  • 🏆Entries
    • Managing Entries
    • Adding Entry
    • Approving Entry
    • Entry Data Comparison
    • Entry Layout Options
    • Submitting Entry Form
    • Contestant's Profile
    • Votes Log
  • 📂Categories
    • General Information
    • Managing Categories
    • Creating Category
    • Category Layout Options
  • 🧩Fields
    • General Information
    • Managing Fields
    • Field Types
    • Creating Field
  • 🔋Modules
    • NorrCompetition Entries
    • NorrCompetition Contests
    • NorrCompetition Grid
  • 🔌Plugins
    • NorrCompetition Notifications
    • NorrCompetition Smart Search
    • NorrCompetition Search
    • NorrCompetition Sitemap
    • NorrCompetition Profile Link
    • Application for EasySocial
    • NorrCompetition Application for JomSocial
    • AUP plugin for NorrCompetition
    • NorrCompetition Image Moderation
      • Sightengine Setup
      • Plugin Configuration
  • 💬Comments
    • Integration with Facebook
    • Integration with JComments
    • Integration with Komento
    • Integration with Disqus
    • Integration with VK.com
  • ☁️Remote Storage
    • General Information
    • AWS S3
  • 🖥️Customisation
    • Template Overriding
    • Using content plugins on entry page
    • Link to contestant
    • Events
      • Content
      • Contest
      • Entry
      • Entry Form
      • Field
      • Vote
      • Other
  • ✍️Localisation
    • Language pack installation
    • How to take a part in NorrCompetition localisation
  • 📜Best Practices
    • Recommendations on image sizes
    • Use on multilingual sites
    • Tutorial: How to Create Photo/Video Voting Contest on Joomla
    • Tutorial: Monetize Voting Contests via Membership
    • Tutorial: Monetize Voting Contests via Points
    • Embedding HTML snippets on example of music contest
  • 💡FAQ
    • How the protection from unfair voting is implemented?
    • What notifications does the component send?
    • Create and edit contests on front-end
    • Submitting Entries by Unregistered Users
    • How to install sample data
    • How to change the order of tabs with comments
    • Using navigation module (breadcrumbs)
    • NorrCompetition and YOOtheme Pro
  • 🔍Troubleshooting
    • I do not get notifications from NorrCompetition
    • I get an error or white screen on photo upload
    • No images appear after submitting entries
    • Submit button is not working
  • User is not able to vote. Errors in the console
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  1. Getting started

Technical Requirements

Technical requirements you need to meet to install NorrCompetition.

Please make sure that your server matches the minimal technical requirements of the current Joomla! version:

NorrCompetition version 2.x

Minimum
Recommended for optimal performance

PHP 7.4+

PHP 8.3+

MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.4+ with InnoDB support

MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.9+ with InnoDB support

NorrCompetition version 1.x (obsolete)

  • PHP 5.3.10+ (we recommend 7.4+). For multilingual support 5.4 is the minimal required version.

  • MySQL 5.0+ with InnoDB support. For optimal performance, we recommend 5.5+.

PHP settings

  • max_execution_time >= 30

  • memory_limit >= 16M (we recommend >= 64M because of images processing)

  • safe_mode = off

  • upload_max_filesize >= 8M

  • JSON and Multibyte String support

  • GD or ImageMagick extension

Joomla Compatibility

* NorrCompetition 2.0.2+ -> Joomla 5.x and later

* NorrCompetition 2.0.0+ -> Joomla 4.2.x and later

* NorrCompetition 1.7.3+ -> Joomla 3.7.0 - 3.10.x

Other requirements

NorrCompetition version 2.x

No jQuery is required.

NorrCompetition version 1.x (obsolete)

NorrCompetition requires jQuery (version 1.11.2 or higher) which is included in Joomla 3 core by default. If you optimize your website and disable unnecessary scripts, please make sure that jQuery is not disabled. MooTools is not needed.

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