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Component development
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:01 am
by 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
Re: Component development
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:18 am
by 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
Re: Component development
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:40 pm
by aasaghir
http://www.packtpub.com/Joomla-Extensions/bookI 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
Re: Component development
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:46 pm
by quiquedcode
Hi Alyssa
I know joomlancers.com, but I begun working 3 years ago in rentacoder.com
Thanks for the book link
Re: Component development
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:57 pm
by 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.
Re: Component development
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:51 pm
by quiquedcode
seadap, your clarification is more exact and accurate
thanks
Re: Component development
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:27 pm
by seadap
Always at your service.
Re: Component development
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:51 am
by pvh123
seadap wrote: 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.