Component development Topic is solved

[aasaghir]

Hi there, This may be a silly question... but....
  I bought the Learning Joomla 1.5 extension development book the other day and I was curious if the steps are compatible with 1.012.

Will the component I write work outside of 1.5?

I have only been using Joomla for a couple months and am not a coder at all.

Thanks for the info!
Alyssa

[quiquedcode]

Hi Alyssa
I think there will be a lot of similarities between components for J1.5 and J1.0.x, but I think you'll have to do some mods for it to work fine in earlier versions

Anyway, may I get the link to the book you bought ? I'm interested too

[aasaghir]

http://www.packtpub.com/Joomla-Extensions/book
I bought it on Amazon, although when I just looked for it I couldn't find it. It is on packt publishing's website. They have a bunch of them.

I see you are a freelancer. Have you checked out joomlancers.com? Thet have lots of projects posted on of which is what I am trying to do. I wanted to code it myself but I realyy have no idea how to do it.

-Alyssa

[quiquedcode]

Hi Alyssa
I know joomlancers.com, but I begun working 3 years ago in rentacoder.com

Thanks for the book link

[seadap]

Version 1.5 focuses on the MVC pattern which means that if you develop for 1.5, it will not work on 1.0.x.  However, there is some talk about a "legacy" module for 1.5 that will -at least partially- allow 1.0.x components work on 1.5.x.  It's not impossible to build a module that will run in both environments but it would take a thorough understanding of how both frameworks are similar/different.

[quiquedcode]

seadap, your clarification is more exact and accurate
thanks

[seadap]

Always at your service.

[pvh123]

However, there is some talk about a "legacy" module for 1.5 that will -at least partially- allow 1.0.x components work on 1.5.x.

It is not only "talk" about Legacy mode, it is there. But be careful. It is there because there are a lot of extensions out there for 1.0.x and they need to run on 1.5.
However, if you start afresh I would suggest to start building for the native 1.5 and not for Legacy mode. The reason for this argument is that Legacy mode will not always be with us.
Anyway, it is more fun to go for full 1.5, I think.