Category Archives: Joomla

The new version of Joomla version 1.6 was officially released this week. This version was rebuilt from the start, and is a major change from the previous 1.5 release. The Joomla team had three main goals for this release. First, … Continue reading →

Make sure you have a working Joomla 1.5.x (I’m using 1.5.21) installation and the Phoca Gallery Component (I’m using 2.7.5) and Phoca Gallery Search Plugin (I’m using 2.7.1) are installed and enabled. Enable SEF – this is tricky because your … Continue reading →

I see a lot of forum posts complaining about Joomla’s built in menu module not being able to support adding images for your separator menu items. The root cause of this is that the menu module uses a span to … Continue reading →

There are a lot of Joomla extensions out there, many of which are free (or at least offer limited release or branded versions for free). There are so many, I would say, that it can be frustrating to search for … Continue reading →

On several occasions I needed to interface with a Joomla installation from a satellite web application. In these scenarios, it is useful to integrate a login check that accesses the Joomla username and password data. While this integration is not … Continue reading →