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Until now there hasn't been a real effort to create a Joomla! 1.5 native e-commerce platform but that's about to change. While there is an enormous need for such a system it is also a huge task to build. E-commerce is something different than running a website presenting content, it involves things like inventory and catalog management, customer management, payment handling and strong...
With the introduction of chaining methods together in PHP 5 we now have the opportunity to implement Fluent Interfaces in PHP which opens up an interesting way of writing more readable and smaller code.
Fluent Interfaces are not a new programming construct, they provide us with the ability to directly de-reference an object, PHP developers can build objects using fluent interfaces.
On the...
This post was written by guest writer, Tom Canavan. Tom is a Joomla security expert, and he has authored the book Joomla Web Security (Packt) as well as Dodging the Bullets - A Disaster Preparation Guide for Joomla! Based Websites. Tom has consulted on security issues for me on a number of occasions, and I can say with firsthand experience that he knows his stuff. If your site is ever hacked...
The Joomla! Project announced the release of Joomla! 1.5.15 today. This release contains a couple of security fixes, so be sure and upgrade as soon as possible.
This How To article piggy-backs off one of the recent articles, How To Change the Layout on the Frontpage. In that How To we discussed how changing a few parameters in the frontpage menu item could totally change the look and format of the frontpage. This How To will show you how Joomla! makes it just as easy to do the same thing on other pages as well.
This how-to is aimed more at Joomla! developers than our beginner or intermediate Joomla! user crowd. When creating an extension (module, component, plugin, or template), it's often necessary to give users the ability to choose custom settings by giving them Parameter options. Interacting with parameters will be for another How-To, but today I want to show you how to find the available...
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