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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
