Daniel Dimitrov
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Samir H. replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'How to override jform .xml files?' in the group Developers
Hi,   i dont know if there is a better solution, but you could write a plugin and use one of the appropriate events (onContentPrepareForm, onContentPrepareData, dont know if they work good with com_contact though) to hook in, then you can just…
Nov 19, 2011
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Michael Bech replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'How to override jform .xml files?' in the group Developers
Ohh i see and no you are right as far as i know. But what you need to do then is to extend the JFormField class   Here's what you do : 1. Go to your models folder (administrator/components/com_COMPONENTNAME/models/). 2. Create a new folder…
Sep 27, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'How to override jform .xml files?' in the group Developers
Hey Michael, Thank you for the link, but this is not what I'm looking for. In j1.6 and 1.7 we are presented with the jform class. Trough a configuration file that resides in models/forms - we define what fields our forms will have, what classes…
Sep 27, 2011
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Michael Bech replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'How to override jform .xml files?' in the group Developers
Try having a look here : http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_the_output_from_the_Joomla!_core   Think this is what you are looking for. You can also take a look in the default templates. Here you will find af html folder. This is how you are…
Sep 27, 2011
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How to override jform .xml files?

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Hey guys,I'm fighting with something that should be really easy, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I want to override com_contact/model/forms/contact.xml in my template. Why I want to override the file - well I want to add a class to the input fields that the component generates... (just a class - not new fields or whatever) Is there any way to override this file? I don't seem to be able to figure out what I need to do. Thank you in advance!DanielSee More
Daniel Dimitrov added a discussion to the group Developers Sep 24, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Hey Alan, I think that it is really simple - don't repeat yourself. If you can save 100 lines of code, why write them? If you can use your backend models in frontend, then do it. Look at the nooku framework for example - the idea behind it is…
Sep 2, 2011
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Mike Feng Jinglong replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
HOLY MOTHER! I just spent more than 3 hours trying to fix this &^%@#@. Traced the codes, finally found the keyword "option.text.toHtml", googled it, found this thread, and BAM!   THANKS I ALMOST TORE MY HAIR OUT!   And yes,…
Aug 15, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Shemeena's discussion 'Backend pagination problem in joomla1.7 component development' in the group Developers
I think that the best tutorial that you can have on jpagination is this one: http://docs.joomla.org/Using_JPagination_in_your_component   I flew over the tutorial you are using and I find it bad. You are getting all the records from the…
Jul 30, 2011
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Tuan Pham Ngoc replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
Hehe, no worry Daniel . Infact, I thought the same with you at the beginning and only found out it is possible to override the options recently :).
Jul 15, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
Ok, as usual it is the user!!!! I'm sorry for stating that those options are not usable. I know what I did wrong this morning! Instead of providing a second param = name, I provided 2 params and because my first parameter was correct, I got a…
Jul 14, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
Hey Tuan, Actually I did the same this morning and I was not able to override option.text.toHtml... Now that you are saying that it is working, I'll try it again. Thanks, Daniel
Jul 14, 2011
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Tuan Pham Ngoc replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
Hi Daniel   Infact, the framework allows you to override the option 'option.text.toHtml' (and any other options) , but Yes, it is difficult and you really need to read code to understand how to override these options . Here is the…
Jul 14, 2011
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Amy Stephen replied to Daniel Dimitrov's discussion 'thoughts about JHtmlSelect' in the group Developers
I had the opportunity to do some training for Joomla developers a few weeks ago. They wanted training in Joomla! 1.5, not 1.6. I must admit, I was reminded at how fun and simple it was using 1.5. JForm in particular seems to have created a lot of…
Jul 14, 2011
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thoughts about JHtmlSelect

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I'm trying to update an extension from 1.5 to 1.7 and I spend several hours trying to figure out why my select list has the right amount of options, but they all miss the text label... Digging into the code I ended up in the JHtmlSelect::options() function. the line that screws my list is 624: ($options['option.text.toHtml'] ? htmlentities(html_entity_decode($text), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') : $text) now $options is self::$_optionDefaults['option'] . Line 624 should actually be transformed…See More
Daniel Dimitrov added a discussion to the group Developers Jul 14, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov commented on Daniel Dimitrov's blog post 'Performance!'
I agree, development is a lot like Zen. With that said you know very well that there are no perfect thing and there is no perfect development environment/tools/workflow.   The goal here is not to find the best tools/workflow/etc. are, but to…
Apr 17, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov commented on Daniel Dimitrov's blog post 'Performance!'
@Matt I don't understand why I didn't came to the symlinking idea myself :) I just tested it with a project I'm working on (this one: http://adminpraise.com :)) and it is pretty cool.   I wrote this small class…
Apr 16, 2011

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Performance!

Hey!

I don't want to talk about joomla's performance or server performance or anything like this :)

I want to talk about our performance and how fast do we get stuff done???

 

There are people that can do the same job twice as fast as other and most of the time it is not because they are smarter, but because they use better tools.

 

Can we all share with the world what our favorite tools are how they help us in our day to day live to save time and be…

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Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:58pm — 16 Comments

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Proposal for changes to the way we have to name our extensions

Before I write anything please don't take anything in my post as an accusation or whatever - I'm just proposing :)



Background:

It was strange for me that my extension didn't get any reviews for the last couple of weeks, so finally today I decided to open the jed. I was astonished to find out that the extension was renamed from CompojoomComment to just Comment - I guess that this is the reason why nobody is reviewing it. When someone buys it - they buy compojoomComment and not… Continue

Posted on September 7, 2010 at 3:30am — 26 Comments

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Security competition

As you know joomla is often accused of being insecure. Nearly always this accusation is wrong! Joomla is secure, but 3rd party components are most of the time not.

There are different reasons for this, but the most obvious in my eyes is the fact that it is super easy to create an extension. And most of the time those extensions are created from people that don't have enough experience and ....



I don't want to be one of those 3rd party developers that end up blamed for security… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2010 at 3:33pm — 19 Comments

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At 4:08am on October 22, 2009, Looking Good Yet?Looking Good Yet? said…
Hey Daniel, I'm on holiday right now. I'll be back in office next Monday. Could look into it then!
At 7:45pm on October 16, 2009, Amy StephenAmy Stephen said…
Your BiggieSmalls Template looks pretty cool. If there are interesting developer or Template hints you'd like to share, I would certainly be interested!
At 7:41pm on October 16, 2009, Amy StephenAmy Stephen said…
Hey Daniel - thanks for being here. There is a place for introductions, would love to see you join in the Developer group, for certain. Feel free to share a blog post. Good to have you with us.
 
 
 

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