Joomla is a popular CMS application, now I am using Joomla 1.7. A lot of modules are available to download and each module has its own layout. Sometimes we may need to override the existing layout of a module. In order to override a module’s layout, we don’t need to update the module’s own layout files, instead we can create our own layout files to override the existing layout.
Hello guys, sometimes we may need to connect to an external database from a custom made joomla extension. It is possible to connect to an external database with the help of JDatabase class. The following sample function connects to an external database and execute a query in the database and returns the result
Joomla is the most wanted CMS application I have ever seen. Currently I am using Joomla 1.6. If you notice the index.php located at the root of joomla installation, you can see an object $app playing an important role in making the site contents. $app is an object of the class Jsite, class Jsite is defined in /includes/application.php. The class Jsite is extended from the class JApplication which is defined in libraries/joomla/application/application.php. Object $app calling several methods and finally print out the entire contents by the code echo $app; Its understood that an object cant print out any contents just by an echo statement. then how the code echo $app prints out the entire site contents ? here is the magic of the magic method __toString(). Read more…