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cool ill give this a go, thanks both for your time. much appreciated ! !

happy joomling 

ben

thanks for your help ian, so if i use JView::setModel i can set more that one model? and then use JView::getModel to get them both? also: You can also use just normal classes that you need as library type classes how do i do this, because it sounds exactly what i need? sa i build a class that i want...

Sorry i know joomla has vast functions for user stuff, i was just giving you a scenario. so that question (re worded) would be, is there a way to include extra classes built by me that would be available in my component controllers and views, say if i had a class for encrypting and decrypting data a...

Ye i am using 1.5, From what i already understood the model an view are tied together, i was just wondering that im sure the time will arrise when i need to access a method from another model. i suppose i could be missing the point, mayb i could include the model in the frist model. i am basically t...

Hi there, thanks for your reply. Didn't think any knew the answer lol  :D Well as i didn't get any reply till now i was forces to spend many hours looking at the current components and trying to work out how they did it. after going quite  :P mad i work out  the following, and it is s...

Hi there, Im very new to Joomla but hav a fairly good understanding of PHP. Basically i need to make a component for joomla and so after reading the MVC tutorials i did this successfully  :D woow! However this is my current problem: When i access a method in my controller i need to set some var...