We have already seen how you can introduce filters to list views in the Joomla admin & collate them under the Search tools menu previously in our Blog last year. The Search tools filters are extremely useful to admins especially if your extension manages a lot of data. As a usability feature, Joomla retains the s...
Screenshot shows menu item parameters for Joomla - Content - Featured Articles Menu Here are two code snippets inside Joomla that lets you access menu parameters anywhere inside Joomla! 1. To access Current Menu parameters $app = JFactory::getApplication();// Get active menu$currentMenuItem = $app->getMenu()->getActi...
Last year was quite fruitful for us in terms of setting up several systems and processes to make sure our releases are more sharp and our code is much better. After several great suggestions and some oops! moments, we decided to pull up our socks and kicked off the slow but disciplined process of code review and infusing good quality into our products and projects. These are experiments and we are of course measuring what works best and will continue to tweak our quality process to further strengthen it
We've taken some great steps and implemented several automated checks which will reject bad code. We also thought of sharing them with everyone so everyone can benefit. Here's a list of things that are already implemented or are in the process of being implemented
In a recent project we had to implement a uniform commenting system across the site, Jomsocial included. Now obviously, Jomsocial comes with it’s own commenting system, and to make matters worse, there were already thousands of comments already present that needed to be migrated to the new platform. We suggested the use of Disqus, which is a cloud ...
The Bootstrap 2.3 vs Bootstrap 3 Problem As of now Joomla uses Bootstrap 2.3 as the officially supported library. However template developers have started adopting Bootstrap 3 in their frameworks & templates. Originally it was hoped that Bootstrap would help get a unified user interface for Joomla. Currently Joomla extension developers are...
