Xtremax - Web Design

Plugins enable us to modify system functionality without the need to alter existing code. For example, plugins can be used to alter content before it is displayed, extend search functionality, or implement a custom authentication mechanism.
In first step you have to create a sand box means creat an xml manifest file which contain all information [...]

Since Blogging is very much into trend now, so I thought to review a Joomla Component, which can help with integrating a blog within your Joomla based Web site. This useful component is MyBlog. In this review, I will try to cover the basic functions and attributes along with 5 modules which can be used [...]

Was trying to figure out the logging architecture of the NCC application when I found something very useful in the debugging of Joomla applications. There are often times when you would very much like to look at all the SQL statements which have been executed in the page request.  It can be easily done in [...]

I was assigned a task by Mr. Otter, recently. It was basically to do a review on available Gallery Components for the Joomla CMS. I will do a quick review for the component Morfeoshow image gallery along with screen shots to give you an insight over it. I have used graphics to expose the functionality [...]

Well, just chanced on a really, really hot backend administration panel.  Major revamp.  Loved the activity logs, mac like toolbar at the bottom, easy templating mechanism. etc.
Check it out!
http://www.adminpraise.com/

Have been working on a serious of frameworks by now.  Most mature frameworks have their own validation framework.  This ensures that field validation are handled in a standard way.  Hmmm, does Joomla have something similar?
Let’s Investigate.
Step 1: I tried to submit an article via the front end.  Was confronted with a javascript alert box that [...]

For a moderately sophisticated web application, you will generally have some tasks which you need to be run on a regular basis.  In Java you have the quartz framework.  In .NET, I hear they rely on the Windows Scheduler to schedule regular jobs.  How about Linux, PHP?  I am aware that we can probably do [...]

I was looking at the JHTML framework in Joomla.  Basically JHTML does a lot of html formatting which is a common functionality of all web applications. 
Fired up my PhpED to take a look at the include paths of JHTML by calling
JHTML::addIncludePath()

It seems that JHTML by default has only one include path at:
libraries/joomla/html/html

Well, there are a lot of useful infrastructure codes in Joomla.  One of it has to do with email cloaking.  Basically joomla has a way or writing out the entire email address via javascript… so that spiders (which are generally just scraping the HTML with no javascript interpretation will not be able to read the [...]

Well, Tweety asked me a question.  An administrator component like Media had many layouts.  How can we know which layout just based on the url?
http://xtremax.com/itemacpherson/administrator/index.php?option=com_media&view=mediaList&tmpl=component&folder=
I looked at the url.. and no.. there is no way.  Internally, there are some codes which have actually set the layout, but it is not based on the core joomla [...]