While i search for integrating vbulletin with joomla i found a plugin for that namely jFusion. JFusion does its magic with the use of its JFusion user and authentication plugins. These plugins allow the complete customisation of the Joomla login behaviour without any core hacks to Joomla. When multiple softwares are integrated there needs to be one “master” software that controls all user management actions. When a user logs in to Joomla, JFusion will validate the user based on the user details in the master software. If a user is succesfully authenticated, JFusion will automatically create or update the user in all of the slave softwares. Continue Reading »
Image Manipulation and Graphs in php
MagickWand For PHP is a PHP module suite for working with the ImageMagick API, which lets you create, compose and edit bitmap images. It’s a useful tool for quickly incorporating image-editing features in your PHP applications.
For more information : http://www.magickwand.org
How to remove index.php from joomla URL
How to remove /index.php/ from joomla url :- The default startup condition now for sh404, after you enable it, is to work without an htaccess file. You can leave it like this if you like (we do, on this site). It has no effect on search engines for example - we have around 50 #1 or #2 global search results here, on this website, so obviously the search potential is unaffected. The URL will look like this:
www.blognol.com/index.php/showblog.html
You’ll see it has an extra level in the middle that looks out of place and could be removed. As stated, you can leave it like this - and we do, since we like the fact it works entirely within the CMS and doesn’t use an htaccess file.
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Scaffolding in Cakephp
About Scaffolding in CakePhp . Application scaffolding is a technique that allows a developer to define and create a basic application that can create, retrieve, update and delete objects. Scaffolding in CakePHP also allows developers to define how objects are related to each other, and to create and break those links.
All that’s needed to create a scaffold is a model and its controller. Once you set the $scaffold variable in the controller, you’re up and running.
CakePHP’s scaffolding is pretty cool. It allows you to get a basic CRUD application up and going in minutes. So cool that you’ll want to use it in production apps. Now, we think its cool too, but please realize that scaffolding is… well… just scaffolding. It’s a loose structure you throw up real quick during the beginning of a project in order to get started. It isn’t meant to be completely flexible, it’s meant as a temporary way to get up and going. If you find yourself really wanting to customize your logic and your views, its time to pull your scaffolding down in order to write some code. CakePHP’s Bake console, covered in the next section, is a great next step: it generates all the code that would produce the same result as the most current scaffold.
Scaffolding is a great way of getting the early parts of developing a web application started. Early database schemas are subject to change, which is perfectly normal in the early part of the design process. This has a downside: a web developer hates creating forms that never will see real use. To reduce the strain on the developer, scaffolding has been included in CakePHP. Scaffolding analyzes your database tables and creates standard lists with add, delete and edit buttons, standard forms for editing and standard views for inspecting a single item in the database.
To add scaffolding to your application, in the controller, add the $scaffold variable:
class CategoriesController extends AppController {
var $scaffold;
}
for more info : http://manual.cakephp.org/view/105/Scaffolding
Convert Joomla Templates
Joomla 1.5 getting more popular. A tutorial provides instructions for converting a Joomla! 1.0.x template to run in Joomla! 1.5 native mode. The classic rhuk Solarflare II template is used to illustrate the steps one must take to accomplish this task.
Rhuk’s Solarflare II is one of the most popular templates ever for Joomla! and before that for Mambo. It was included in the initial Joomla! 1.0.0 release and before that with various releases of Mambo. I do not recall when the initial version of Solarflare II appeared. The version I used as baseline for conversion to Joomla 1.5 is dated November 2, 2004.
For more details : http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/548-migrating-rhuk-solarflare-ii-into-joomla-15.html