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Rafael Diaz-Tushman Overriding the Logic in Core (or any!) Joomla Components

It is common knowledge within the Joomla Development Community that Joomla allows you to override the HTML output for any extension (including core ones) that use the Joomla MVC Framework. In itself,
that is pretty exciting because it means that you can make an extension look however you want even without changing its core files, which would otherwise be known as "hacking" the core files.


However, what if you wanted to override more than just the HTML output? For exa

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Added by Rafael Diaz-Tushman on March 10, 2010 at 8:28pm — No Comments

Parth Lawate Fighting Spam in a Joomla Powered Website

SPAM ! This is one problem that any webmaster today has to contend with in his daily tasks. If not dealt with on a fundamental level it can really become a pain in the neck & also end up in consuming time. Not removing Spam comments /registrations/ forums posts on websites can really be harmful for its reputation & credibility.

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Added by Parth Lawate on March 10, 2010 at 4:00am — 5 Comments

Ivo Apostolov Component clone

I would ask here for any ideas of reusing one and the same component many times on a web site. It can be done for the modules, but as one component has one and the same tables, this is not very useful there.

What is the question?
Imagine a extension with dozens of classes and functions that are called by it or by its modules, so renaming the extension and its tables to have a second copy of it is not exactly what I am looking for as if all classes and funct
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Added by Ivo Apostolov on March 10, 2010 at 3:44am — 32 Comments

Parth Lawate Proposing a #how2joomla Twitterathon Week

Hey all !

You might remember we had started a #how2joomla twitter tag community service some months back.. Thanks to all the contributers its come to a good start & we are seeing a lot of people contribute .

To inject some more action in the community around this, we are proposing a Joomla twitterathon around this twitter tag & invite all the Joomla Community to share your Joomla Knowledge in form of short tweets.

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Added by Parth Lawate on March 9, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Michel van Agtmaal How to add Magento eCommerce to a Joomla site

Although several e-Commerce solutions are available for Joomla, none of them seem to meet the powerful features of the open source Magento eCommerce Platform

Last Friday I had the pleasure to join Yireo, one of our Extension Development Partners, at a MageBridge Demo and really got impressed by their approach to bridge Magento to Joomla.

With MageBridge they offer a powerful an

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Added by Michel van Agtmaal on March 9, 2010 at 10:39am — No Comments

Marius van Rijnsoever SMF community under siege

My first blog here so I wanted to give you all a big thumbs up for all your positive efforts for the Joomla community. I think that thanks to your effort Joomla has been a more positive community and that open source matters has been trying very hard to be transparent and engage the joomla users. You can have a look at the SMF community to see how good we have it with Joomla.

An example of how not to manage a community can be found at SMF (a free forum software). SMF differs from… Continue

Added by Marius van Rijnsoever on March 9, 2010 at 12:30am — 17 Comments

Victor Drover How would you change the extensions directory at Joomla.org?

At the January Joomla User Group meeting in Milwaukee, I gave a presentation entitled Selecting and evaluating extensions for Joomla. Of course we discussed at length the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) and its various advantages and disadvantages compared to other directories.

Completely independently,… Continue

Added by Victor Drover on March 8, 2010 at 11:00pm — 33 Comments

alledia Interview with Fotis Evangelou About Gazzetta.gr

Hey All

Part 2 of our series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them.

This week is Fotis from Joomlaworks talking about Gazzetta.gr:

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1127-gazzettagr.html

If you have a major or particularly interesting website project under your belt, drop me a line to… Continue

Added by alledia on March 8, 2010 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments

Mustaq Sheikh Happy International Womens' Day 2010

The world celebrates International Womens' Day today ( Monday 8 March 2010 ) .

I would like to wish all women involved with OSS ( Open Source Software ) in whatever way, an enjoyable International Womens' Day 2010 and acknowledge your contribution to OSS.

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Added by Mustaq Sheikh on March 8, 2010 at 7:35am — 2 Comments

Ewout Wierda Access to the internet as a fundamental right

"Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries - found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.
Countries such as Finland and Estonia have already ruled that access is a human right for their citizens.
International bodies such as the UN are also pushing f
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Added by Ewout Wierda on March 8, 2010 at 7:20am — 3 Comments

Ivo Apostolov Is this secure enough?

When creating a new account in Joomla!, the software sends an e-mail with the data of the user (including the password). However, if the server is not setup correctly (to send e-mails), the site admin will receive a return message like (similar) this:

Hello XXX,

Thank you for registering at YYY. Your account is created and must be activated before youcan use it.
To activate the account click on the following link or copy-paste it in your browser:
A
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Added by Ivo Apostolov on March 8, 2010 at 4:31am — 12 Comments

Svein Wisnaes Work smarter - translation

I am not a programmer, so I can not contribute by writing code. At best, I can look at the code, figure out what it is meant to do and possibly change some things.

But my writing is not half bad. I do understand English pretty well and my mother language is Norwegian. As I am living in Brazil, I am learning Portuguese as well. So I figure I can help with a little translation. In the beginning, it will be to Norwegian, and I know they are under-staffed.

But I also look at the fi… Continue

Added by Svein Wisnaes on March 5, 2010 at 7:54am — 5 Comments

Amy Stephen Creating a Custom Renderer

I have been struggling with a problem with Joomla!, lately, and figured out a nifty solution I wanted to share and see if others had ideas. Joomla!'s standard Components, Modules, and Plugins just didn't fit the requirements of this Intranet application I am building. I created a very flexible architecture of Portals->Themes->Positions->Portlets->Layouts->Resources with nice customization on the frontend by users, the ability to create grou… Continue

Added by Amy Stephen on March 4, 2010 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments

Herman Peeren Revolution OS

Inspiring video on the origin of open source software:



http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=7707585592627775409

Thanks to Mike McGinn (waptug.org) who pointed me to it.
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Added by Herman Peeren on March 3, 2010 at 4:46am — 19 Comments

Ewout Wierda Mainstream Open Source Principles

In his article 'Predictions for 2010: #2 – Open Source Principles Become Mainstream' at the
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Added by Ewout Wierda on March 3, 2010 at 1:34am — No Comments

Ivo Apostolov Price research survey?

Joomla! has a lot of business surrounding it. We all know that. But none has ever tried to attempt to make a research for the top/bottom/average prices for various services on global level.
IMO, due to the nature of this site, I think it would be a great success.
Last year I made such for the Bulgarian community with various questions (including control questions).

How was that organized?
1. Three sections: general information, services provided, prices for these services.… Continue

Added by Ivo Apostolov on March 2, 2010 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

alledia Interview with Jack Bremer About theArtsDesk.com

Hey All

We're starting a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them.

First up is Jack Bremer and the major U.K. arts website theArtsDesk.com.

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1126-theartsdeskcom.html

If you have a major or particularly interesting website project under your belt, drop me a… Continue

Added by alledia on March 2, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Michel van Agtmaal Is Joomla All American?

Today (Tuesday March 2, 2009) we published a short blog post at 02:30pm CET: How To Switch Non-secure And Secure Joomla pages

The feed aggregator at Joomla Connect says it is a one day old post (dated Monday… Continue

Added by Michel van Agtmaal on March 2, 2010 at 8:29am — 10 Comments

Ivo Apostolov Template developers cooperate

What is different in Joomla! than some other CMSs is that developers of extensions usually do not cooperate a lot. Everyone has his own vision and it is not that
simple to make hooks between extensions. Therefore, if you go to JED, you may
notice that the interaction plugins/components etc. between major extensions
are usually developed by someone completely different developer.

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Added by Ivo Apostolov on March 2, 2010 at 5:30am — 4 Comments

Ewout Wierda CCKs: from choice to dominance and integration?

At the moment I am trying to build something with jSeblod CCK after I tried FlexiContent some time ago. I have not tried K2 and others yet but I already I am starting to feel a preference for jSeblod, because I am positively amazed about the feature set. See this spreadsheet I found on Google for some comparisons - I am not sure if it is correct or up to date.

The t
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Added by Ewout Wierda on March 2, 2010 at 2:13am — 34 Comments

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