This is the start of a series of articles about building custom plugins. We will start with some general information about plugins and creating them. In subsequent episodes of this series we will take a closer look at specific plugin types and their peculiarities.
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.
About 10-12 years ago, the owner of a car news website, built with Joomla, needed to create a classified adverts section where private individuals or care dealerships could post vehicles for sale. For this, we purchased a commercial component called EXP AutosPro, which made it possible to build a full-fledged automotive classifieds system.
Haven’t migrated your Joomla 3 website(s) because it uses J2Store and you’re not sure what will happen? Dreading the moment that J2Store pulls the plug and you would need to have that uncomfortable client discussion about moving to a new ecommerce solution? Fear no longer: J2Store will be continued! Olivier Buisard and Adam Melcher are working on it as we speak, and new versions have been released already. Read all about The Fork, The Developers and The Plans!
Most joomlers have visited one of Steve Burge's sites at some time, whether it's OSTraining for training or Joomlashack for extensions. What most of his tools have in common is their use in education.
We were curious to know why this former schoolteacher decided to devote his professional life to providing quality Joomla tools, so we asked him, and Steve kindly replied :
As you might know, Joomla 5 is a great open-source CMS all by itself and it does so much in the core that you can truly build a great website with just what is built-in… too often, sadly, website developers will use either:
In the second episode of our building-tools adventure we'll delve deeper into our event schedule example and explore how to implement it using two Joomla application builders — Seblod and Fabrik. We'll not yet create a full component, instead we’ll embed our application within these extensions. By doing so we will also get a better understanding of the requirements for the component we want to build in subsequent articles of the series.
Are you a developer who needs to know when you can expect deprecated old functions, an administrator who may have new features to gem up on, or perhaps just nosy and wants to know when the next release is due? Then read on and get the inside knowledge.
Here in the UK, the phrase “helping the police with their enquiries" is synonymous with other phrases, such as “Assisting law enforcement with their investigation” and often ends with having “your collar felt.”
Luckily, I even get paid to help them, which is not the usual turn of events when dealing with the Law, but in my case, it is because I build websites for several different Police groups in the UK.
Automated tests are not a special tool for software developers in large projects. Especially for extensions, automated tests are a help to quickly identify problems. They help to ensure that extensions work smoothly in newer Joomla versions.
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