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well I do know that in your install xml you need to have this, hopefully its all you need: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE install SYSTEM "http://dev.joomla.org/xml/1.5/component-install.dtd"> <install type="component" version="1.5.0"...

without knowing exactly what you want to do, here are some relevant js entries, hopefully this will help you: <script language="JavaScript"> function myJSMethod(){ //selects var prov_select = document.forms['myform'].provinces; var univ_select = document.forms['myform'].universities; //sel...

I generally use an auto increment primary key on tables with composite keys anyways. You can then use store() and delete() when you want to use the id, or you can override if you want to do things like delete a record by the composite key. Nice thing about this is you can use it to delete all the re...

For the number of content items in a category, you will need to join the two tables by pairing up their columns in common: the foreign key 'catid' in the content table and the primary key 'id' of the category table. use this: SELECT count(c.id) FROM #__content c INNER JOIN #__categories AS cat ON ca...

If I understand what you are saying correctly try this: look in the front end of the com_content component and you will see com_content/views.php defining this class: class ContentView extends JView Then in the /views directory you will see /article/view.html.php && /category/view.html.php e...

I am creating a component that adds fields to a content items using a relation table. This simple M2M relation table is fields_content and it relates content ids to field ids from a fields table. I would like to be able to clear out the relationship table of old content ids when the content is delet...

I think Firefox is closing the hanging tags automatically, I do not see the close tags in ie.

What needs to be done to manage extension caching? I have followed the cache tutorial - http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wiki/Itemid,/id,tips:using_caching/&s=cache - but it doesn't really make it clear what does/doesn't need to be done to introduce framework based caching. Do I nee...

I was originally going to ask if there was a function that would close any open tags that a module were to unintentionally/unavoidably produce. But after playing around with an extension I am writing, it appears that this is done automatically; however I would like to call the function, so as to hav...