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Issue 1

the Art of Joomla - Under the Hood

Removing a Legacy: Part 1

Written by Andrew Eddie

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.

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mirjam makes this comment

Monday, 21 July 2008

I'm really happy I found this article! I got stuck on a "Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object" error message and I'm not a true PHP programmer... changing the "global $database" caused 'instant happiness' ;-) Thanx for writing this and the other info!
eGoDaddy makes this comment

Thursday, 29 May 2008

Are there any drawbacks to enabling legacy to get a module installed, then disabling it shortly thereafter? I only ask, as MyBlog says its modules are "native 1.5," but require legacy mode to install...seems lazy to me, as the installers should be updated, then. I just hate to flip the switch, switch it back, only to run into problems down the road. Friends don't let friends drive legacy.
backlinkskaufen makes this comment

Wednesday, 06 February 2008

Very good tutorial!
Eric Doriean makes this comment

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Great article. Great site. Thanks... :)
Rob Clayburn makes this comment

Saturday, 05 January 2008

Hey Andrew - fantastic start, these little tips are going to save loads of people lots of time - keep it up!
Adrian Lewis makes this comment

Thursday, 03 January 2008

Here here for the site and also for GroupJive working with RokACL. I'm sure there's developers of other extensions that could use a basis for groups too when RokACL is finished (hint hint). Cheers, Adrian
Edfel makes this comment

Saturday, 29 December 2007

Hi Andrew: Now I can work on some extensions to run my site in native 1.5 mode. Let see how it goes. In the mid time, will wait for Part II of this series. Thank you very much!! Edfel
Matheus makes this comment

Saturday, 22 December 2007

Yay! this is a great article. Can't wait for part 2.
Mark Raborn makes this comment

Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Andrew, Thanks! I was *very pleasantly* surprised to find this site. Grateful to you for your willingness to provide information and help Joomla users/developers/designers in a free (OpenSource) format. Appreciate all you've done BTW for CMS in OpenSource. Will watch this article series and look forward to applying your insights here http://www.groupjive.org which we currently run in Legacy. Also (on our wishlist)... we are looking forward very much like to making the same com_ compatible with RokACL when the time comes. So, will check in every once in a while for news on RokACL as well (hint hint). Best to you sir. Thanks Chief, wwvine