This Joomla layout override tutorial shows you how to modify the blog style views for articles to show the "day" date above all the articles posted in the same day.  After that, each article on the same day will just display the time they were posted as shown in the screenshot from www.optionsizzle.com.

The steps are easy to follow or you can just download the files via the link at the end of the tutorial.

Welcome to Part 3 of my series for converting an existing component to work natively in version 1.5.  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. 

Welcome to Part 2 of my series on converting an existing component to work natively in version 1.5. 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.

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.