Online Resources for programing with Joomla
A compilation of useful sites for programming with Joomla.
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How to set PSR-12 in PhpStorm
With the intorduction of Joomla 4.2 the preferred Coding style changed from a Joomla homegrown convention to start using PSR-12 and to that end to change the Code Style for your Project(s) in PhpStorm is quite straightforward once you know how, and here is how.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Database .
Nested Queries with Joomla Query Statements.
Squeezing the requirements of more complex SQL queries that use nested queries to work with in the Joomla Query API statements can be a little tricky at times so in this article are some examples found in my research.
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Make Windows 10 folders Case Sensitive
The case insensitive, foo.tx is considered the same as FOO.TXT, Windows environment can cause issues when moving files across to the case sensitive, foo.txt is not the same as Foo.txt, Linux environments where Joomla is hosted. However in 2018 Windows 10 introduced the ability to make folders on Windows case sensitive and within are the steps to take to achieve this.
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How to return to the originating or calling page or view in you extension
There are several ways in which you can navigate back to the calling page in your component.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Fields.
Joomla Field Types
A direct cut and paste from the Joomla Wiki to see how an article might look in Joomla with minimal editing.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Joomla.
How to add separators to Component menu in Administrator
Asked on Joomla Stack Exchange was how to add seperators to the Admin menu for components and after a lot of digging it seems the code to do it is almost there in the core, just one little change is required. This is the hack and the explanation I posted on JSE along with a link to the post in the Issue Tracker that might see the light of day sometime.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Manifests.
The Component Manifest
The elements required or available to the Installation Manifest file of a Component.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Explanations.
Default Save processing in the Model
An attempt to document what processing is happening when saving a record using the default Model & Table approach.
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Written by Terry Pollard on . Posted in Manifests.
Manifest file processing for Components
For the installation of a Joomla Component the manifest , a .xml, file is required to process the contents of the installation files into the various places they are required to install the component as intended.
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