Community Magazine

3 years ago I built a website which would be constantly updated with new content. More recently I built a mobile phone app that would need to display the same data. This is how I updated everything from one place.

If you use Joomla, you may have heard the term “dependency injection”. But what is it and why is it important? I’ll explain it as clearly as possible, to make it understandable for non-coders too. 

What does a value in a table cell mean? Simply look at the header at the top of the column and/or somewhere at the beginning of the row. But what if you are blind?

A series of articles about tools that can help you to create a Joomla component. But we start with showing that a lot can be done with core Joomla, without building a custom component.

Empowering administrators with insights beyond just updates

We've all been there. You log into your Joomla administrator panel, check for updates, see that green checkmark, and think "Great! My site is healthy." But is it really?

Wouldn’t it be great if Joomla could automatically generate meaningful SEO data, so you don’t have to do it manually? Mohd Shahzan, one of the two very first students to join the Joomla Academy, is working on this. Let’s find out what this project means for you as a Joomla user, administrator or developer!

Tools to build a Component - 9: Overview and Conclusion

In the previous 8 episodes we looked at tools to build a Joomla component. In this last episode we’ll look back at the previous series and wrap it up.

When people think of Joomla, they often think about the Joomla CMS, which is a great system for building websites. But Joomla is more than only the CMS. Under the hood, there is something else: the Joomla Framework.

I was given code snippets in css, html and  php with the aim of achieving the same output. How we go about this depends on the execution and who the functionality is aimed at. My own implementations tend to be less geared towards customer-friendly code if I’m using it on my own website but I wanted to consider which could be used by customers who update their own sites.

 In this episode we will look at Extension Generator as a tool to to build a component.