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Getting started with JForm
Published: 29th November 2010
JForm is one of the most exciting new features to be introduced as part of Joomla! 1.6. The intention is to provide XML configurable forms complete with custom field types and form validation. I cannot stress enough just how much easier this is going to make life as a Joomla! developer. In this article we take a look at how to define JForms and how to display them.
UTF-8 in Joomla!
Published: 18th April 2010
Have you ever browsed to a website only to find that half the content is unreadable? Or that certain characters are being displayed in strange and mysterious ways? Or perhaps you wanted to enter a foreign or unusual character but found that the result was a garbled mess.
The chances are you have been subject to poorly managed character encodings. Joomla! extensions are no exception to these occurrences, but with a little bit of effort and some help from the Joomla! framework, we can avoid these problems with relative ease.
Working with dates in Joomla!
Published: 7th October 2009
In this article we explain how best to handle date and time values in Joomla! extensions. We investigate the following:
- How to store values in the Joomla! MySQL database
- Ways to format dates
- How to deal with time zones
