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okay it just made sense, that link is partially whats returned from the database, i.e. if you search for a news blurb that has the word "firefox" in it, and there are three articles with that word, then it will return in the link the proper id's and what not to display the articles (or the links in ...

I am comfy with the database stuff, but the link stuff is whats throwing me off, what is its purpose? is that a like "returned link" so to speak that is processed by something else in order to provide the results of a search?

thanks again for all the help really its really helping.

ahhh okay i see, is that defined by what files are in a component? i.e. its a labeled view if there is a component_name.html file in the component folder?
etc.. ? or is that defined what kind of view it is (feed id, labled view, other) in some other manner?

There is an eportfolio component, since im helping a friend with his joomla based site I am not sure where it came from...so I cannot say if it has a feed id? or a task labeled view....this could hold true for that seyret video component too from:

http://www.joomlaholic.com/

Thank You, I am beginning to see how truly dynamic and well thought out Joomla is for extending.  It seems to me then, that if i were to create say an eportfolio search mambot the files it might have are: mambots:  eportfolio.searchbot.php, eportfolio.searchbot.xml (not overly sure what th...

okay I see.. i did reopen the newsfeeds.php file and see the query.  Most of it makes sense: but I am curious as to what the FROM is getting from?  i see the #__newsfeeds and the #__categories , I don't see where those are defined or where they are coming from, I am not sure if this is php...

yes its 1.0, I see the file but I am confused by say the content.searchbot.  I am guessing its searching one of the content tables ?  where is the table name being specified, I found the query: $query = "SELECT params" . "\n FROM #__mambots" . "\n WHERE element = 'content.searchbot'" . "\n...

I don't have my main dev machine here, but I just downloaded joomla to the pc I am to start poking around the files and it seems I don't have a plugin folder anywhere.  I see a modules and components but no plugins folder.
Thanks,
Shane

I have installed a few more components, and i would like to search the contents of these components by modifying the com_search method to do so.  Though I am new to joomla and I am not 100% sure where to start looking, I assumed it would be a matter of adding to the sql query the search has to ...