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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
I will provide the list of my bookmarked links and a list with links for Joomla Development Books, with various resources all around Joomla Development. I hope they will be useful for anyone ...
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votes
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What is the Joomla Execution Flow, after a request reach to index.php till the final output on the browser?
Answer's ToC
1. Intro for beginners + beginners resources link
2. About Joomla Architecture
3. Joomla Execution Flow - How Joomla Works
4. Supplementary Resources
1. Intro for Beginners
...
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Where can I find Joomla usage statistics?
This is the only resource I could find that had report that are updated daily:
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-joomla/all/all
It also shows the percentages of different versions used too ...
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Where can I find Joomla usage statistics?
There are also these:
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Joomla!
The change in market share is considerable when the results are filtered to the top 1 million, top 100k ...
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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
I can recommend the official doc page. There is a section for developers which includes also tutorials. http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Developers
David Hurley is currently doing a series of short ...
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What differences (if any) are there between JFactory::getSession() and $mainframe->getSession()?
The global variable $mainframe was remove in Joomla 1.6 and therefore will not work from that version onwards.
global $mainframe should be replaced with $mainframe = JFactory::getApplication(); but ...
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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
Previous answers are comprehensive about Joomla Core MVC. As an alternative MVC for Joomla, FOF
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/fof/introducing-fof.html#what-is-fof
https://github.com/...
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Should I change the way I include javascript into Joomla? If yes, why and how?
Articles are for content, not source code.
Rule of thumb, different content in different places.
If I have to quickly include Javascript, I would recommend NoNumber Sourcerer: http://www.nonumber.nl/...
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votes
Where can I find Joomla usage statistics?
You have to be careful with any of the reported data below and see it as data relative to that source data. No web service knows exactly the make up of the internet by cms or any technology as all the ...
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How can I diferentiate between guests and members?
I usually do something like this:
<?php
$user = JFactory::getUser();
if ($user->guest) {
// User is not logged in
} else {
//User is logged in
}
?>
Take a look ...
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How can I diferentiate between guests and members?
You can either use this:
$user = JFactory::getUser();
if($user->id != 0)
{
// you are a member
}
else
{
// you are a guest
}
or this:
$user = JFactory::getUser();
if($user->guest)
{
...
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Community of photographers: is Joomla the CMS to go for?
You are right, most of the CMS dedicated for organizing image galleries are portfolio type websites for a single user. Joomla on the other hand provides great power and flexibility to built what you ...
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4
votes
What are the top reason to reconsider Joomla?
Joomla is Responsive
One click installation via App Store : Joomla call it 'Install from Web'
Joomla is more secure
2 Factor authentication
Better encryption using Bcrypt : Why Bcrypt is the ...
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4
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Should I change the way I include javascript into Joomla? If yes, why and how?
If you're including the JavaScript as a user and customized to your article, then it's fine. Especially if it is different for each article.
However if you happen to repeat the same JavaScript code ...
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votes
"echo" title article before read more
If you have selected category blog view and you need to print the article just after the intro text, try to override the following template:
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_conetnt/category/blog_item....
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Why are the default "index.html" files not valid HTML5?
In Joomla these files are placed in folders to keep someone from seeing the contents of it's parent folder in a list that is automatically created by apache when no index file is present. It is a ...
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How can I diferentiate between guests and members?
Besides the direct programmatic method to conditionally show different contents (JFactory::getUser()->guest), there's an alternative to create a Guest group to identify this specific set of users; in ...
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Server-side validation rule is not being found
It seems that you actually have to specify what the path is for and put it in the right place, lol! The problem was in specifying a path for the fields instead of for the rules!
This correction ...
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votes
How can I use google recaptcha in my custom page?
First read carefully in which files the SO
answer that you quoted
tells you to put the code.
Also, the code you attached is no longer working in Joomla 3.5. This is due to a change in the reCaptcha ...
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votes
How to add validation in my own module?
Change document.fileupload.doc_type.value to document.getElementById('file').value. Also, you're checking if the value is "" AND null, I'm not sure if that is possible.
Unless you need to verify the ...
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What differences (if any) are there between JFactory::getSession() and $mainframe->getSession()?
As for ressources about $mainframe:
http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:What's_new_in_Joomla_2.5
http://docs.joomla.org/Adapting_a_Joomla_1.5_extension_to_Joomla_1.6#Global_Variables_.28.24option_and_....
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Should I change the way I include javascript into Joomla? If yes, why and how?
Should javascript not be included via joomla articles? If yes, why?
I would advise gently against using JS straight up in articles...
Not user-friendly - many editors will wipe out JS written inline ...
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joomla protostar formfield width responsivness
The following classes can be added to your input field in order to control the size:
class="inputbox input-mini"
class="inputbox input-small"
class="inputbox input-medium"
class="inputbox input-...
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votes
Copying Joomla Menu Items and keeping Module assignements
I needed exactly the same thing so I made a plugin that makes Save as copy work that way. You can find it here: https://github.com/alexxandar/copy-module-assignments
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Where can I find Joomla upcoming release dates?
There is the official roadmap which is posted at http://developer.joomla.org/cms/roadmap.html.
It gives you the broad picture at which month the minor releases are going to be released
As for patch ...
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votes
Is there an extension/script that could pull html pages as articles in to Joomla?
The simplest way to load articles from external sources is via RSS Feeds.
There are several proven extensions at JED that already implement a RSS Article Grabber: http://extensions.joomla.org/search?...
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votes
Disable website to all but logged in users
I'm going to give my answer for this based on @Bryan's answer.
The Members Only plugin looks very promising, so no comment on that.
The registeredOnly plugin is free, however I was not impressed ...
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3
votes
Recommended extension / tool to check for core file modifications?
http://audit-fs.co.za/ has a free tool called Audit_FS that shows you modified Joomla files and/or possibly corrupted Joomla files.
As a basic security tool Audit_FS is designed to perform audits ...
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votes
What is an efficient way to troubleshoot a "white screen of death"
It seems that no one has mentioned disabling output buffering - so I'll mention it here...
Output buffering is very nasty for debugging, and even if you set your error reporting to maximum and add ...
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votes
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Controlling Component Redirect (Using JControllerForm)
The redirect is likely getting overridden by the save function in your controller. You should be able to override the redirect with the method that you listed, we just need to get it in the right spot....
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