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January
Adding Custom Fields to the Joomla Contact Form
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- Written by: Brian Teeman
- Category: January
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This tutorial explains how to add extra fields to the Joomla Contact form using Custom Fields. The process uses core Joomla functionality, requires no third-party extensions, and is fully upgrade-safe.
You’ll learn how to create a field, configure permissions correctly, control where it appears on the form, and ensure submitted values are included in the contact email.
J!Otto: The Award That Big Joomla Sites Want To Win
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- Written by: Carlos Cámara
- Category: January
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There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being recognized by your peers. I learned this firsthand in 2011, when my colleague Isidro Baquero and I discovered our Spanish Joomla blog had been nominated for a J.O.S.C.A.R award at JandBeyond. We were just two engineers passionate enough to write about Joomla! in our native language. We didn’t win, but that moment of validation was unforgettable: it felt like we had achieved something amazing.
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Test your Extension, Part 3: PHPStan
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- Written by: Herman Peeren
- Category: January
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In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a custom Joomla extension. In this third episode, we’ll use PHPStan, a tool to examine and debug source code before the program is run. You don’t even have to write a test to catch bugs at an early stage.
Using Joomla To Manage React Native Content
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- Written by: Dan Atrill
- Category: January
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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.
Stop Coding Alone: Start your Open Source Adventure at Joomla!
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: January
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An open source CMS that’s vibrant, community-driven, super flexible and powering millions of websites: that’s how Mahmoud Magdy experienced Joomla. It was the first ever open source project he worked on: "It was challenging at first, but I loved how it pushed me to write better code and learn from others."
Read more: Stop Coding Alone: Start your Open Source Adventure at Joomla!