Alain Rivest's Page

Joomla 2.5 will be released at the end of January 2012. We all need to make changes to our extensions to make them compatible with Joomla 2.5 and the beta period is the perfect time to do that to be ready when it's released. Maybe I don't know how to search but I didn't find any information about the API changes between 1.5 and 2.5, or at least between 1.7 and 2.5. Is there any information somewhere other than looking at the code?See More

Every time I build a new component I wonder if I should use the admin model on the front end or create a separate model and duplicate most of the code. Since the model already contain all the code to get the data from the database, is there a good reason for a separate model? If I take com_compoent for example, retrieving an article or a list of articles should be the same SQL query regardless if it's called from the back or the front end. Same thing for saving an article, we need to set the…See More