CMSes as enhanced frameworks
Though Joomla and WordPress indirectly pay most of my bills, now and then there are still customers who ask me to write a webapp from scratch: nowadays of course “from scratch” doesn’t mean anymore starting from a blank file; we are in the MVC/Active record pattern era and, although it’s still not mandatory, the use [...]
Use patTemplate
I don’t know why but only few {third-part} Joomla! developers use patTemplate variables: this library is available in both Joomla! 1.0.x/1.5.x so I really don’t understand why it’s not widely used (I didn’t use it in my early components but I’ve definitely started using it). A simple example is available on their website. If I’m [...]
DokuWiki passes E_STRICT test, others don’t
Having read that The Zend Framework codebase must be E_STRICT compliant. on the latest version of a XAMPP server I’ve tested with E_STRICT the three LA(M)P programs that I mostly use: DokuWiki (2007-06-26b), Joomla! (1.5 RC3) and WordPress (2.3.1). Of course DokuWiki is the simplest of them but I was surprised to discover that it [...]
A trivial patch for the Joomla 1.5.x installer
I’m not a fan of safe_mode and open_basedir (even before talking to Zeev Suraski when I learnt that it will be removed in PHP 6). Surprisingly, sometimes an easy to find set of safe_mode related bugs, viewed by thousands of eyes, survives for ages. I’ve just sent this trivial patch for the upcoming Joomla 1.5.
Where JToolBarHelper finds icons
Someday this post could save you an hour: do you need to use JToolBarHelper::custom() within Joomla 1.5.x? The icons that it calls by default are placed in administrator/templates/khepri/images/toolbar/ (substitute khepri with the name of your non standard administrator template if you have one) and if you want to use, for example, icon-32-help.png, you have to [...]
Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development
One year ago I wrote my first Joomla 1.0.x component using com_dailymessage (the component that Joseph L. LeBlanc describes in his The Daily Message Joomla Component Tutorial): now we can read not a new tutorial but a whole book about the upcoming 1.5.x series… I’ve just started reading it but I’ve already found the precise [...]
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1
I’ve just finished reading Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1: waiting for the release of Learning Joomla! Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP as far as I know it is still the only book available that discusses the 1.5 series and my quick reading was enlightening.
A second patch for Joomla com_media
Once again an easy to fix bug viewed by thousands of eyes has survived for ages. Today I sent this patch to Joomla forge to fix another bug in administrator/components/com_media/admin.media.php.
A patch for Joomla com_media
Once again an easy to fix bug viewed by thousands of eyes has survived for ages. Today I sent this patch to Joomla forge to fix a bug in administrator/components/com_media/admin.media.php.
Joomla Subversion behind a proxy
This is a note about how to checkout the Joomla stable (1.0.x) Subversion repository when you are behind a proxy. I know there are many sites explaining how to do that but I was not able to find one of them with an out of the box working solution. This is my recipe. 1) Add [...]
