English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi
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 not wrong, even Joseph LeBlanc didn’t write about it in his book (which I’ve previously described).
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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 can be installed with error_reporting = E_STRICT without showing any warnings (the others showed long lists of them).
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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.
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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 write something like
JToolBarHelper::custom('up0', 'help.png', 'help.png', 'up', false);
In other words, you have to pass the filename without the starting icon-32- string. If the previous case is not sufficient for you and you want to pass to custom() your custom icon, read this post.
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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 style that I know is his.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 the following lines to your ~/.subversion/servers:
[global]
http-proxy-exceptions = *.your_domain
http-proxy-host = proxy.your_domain
http-proxy-port = 80 # 80 or the right port for you
2) The most important thing to do is to use HTTPS. In a working path, type:
svn co --username your_username https://scm.joomla.org/svn/repos/joomla/releases/1.0/ your_folder
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This post updates a previous one on the same topic.
If for some reason you need to restore a MySQL dump of an instance of Joomla (made with eBackup) with the extra component JXplorer, well you could find useful this pre import script I wrote.
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