Issue 3

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. 

See revised article.

Welcome to Issue 3 of the Art of Joomla!. With the release of 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 come a few useful fixes that may not be obvious to the naked eye. We will also continue our giving Legacy Mode the boot series, as well as starting a new one on creating a component from scratch natively.

Amongst the numerous bugs that have been dealt with, there are a few feature improvements that have been made in the recent Joomla! releases 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.

Every programmer needs to have a visual file diff application under their belt. I recently did the hard yards to once again review what was available and stumbled upon the perfect solution that was eerily familiar.