Joomla 1.0 end-of-life is approaching and it's time for developers who sitll use Joomla 1.5's legacy mode to switch over to the native API.  I've prepared a detailed cheat sheet for what is required to convert your Joomla 1.0 based extensions to run natively on Joomla 1.5: Converting Old Extensions to Joomla 1.5.

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Welcome to Part 3 of my series for converting an existing component to work natively in version 1.5 without using legacy mode.  Last time we looked at configuration variables, dug into JRequest and also had a look at a few other things.  This time we are hit the administrator component hard to see if we can actually get some output happening. 

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Welcome to Part 2 of my series on converting an existing component to work natively in Joomla version 1.5 without using legacy mode. Last time we looked at Legacy Mode, fixing the constant that prevents direct access to files and solved some database problems. We also had a quick look at what to do down the track with translations. So let's continue and find out what our next error is.

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Joomla 1.5 provides a "Legacy Mode" to allow most developers a way to get up-and-running easily. However, you really want to get off the dependence on Legacy Mode as soon as you can. The new Joomla framework in version 1.5 provides a far richer environment in which to build extensions.

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